Posts Tagged with ‘social-bookmarking’

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful.
People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if something unexpected happens to your browser. But there are some pages bookmarked that are simply beyond my understanding. Like when you want to do a search [...]

Today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle creators of one of the most popular social bookmarking services Ma.gnolia (but definitely far behind Delicious) have announced that they have decided to make the code behind the service open-source and rely on the developers community for further updates and growth of Ma.gnolia.
What’s more, being open-sources for Ma.gnolia means that any webmaster or any company will be able to take the code, customize it and install it as a part of other existing [...]

Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they started with 100 and eventually reached 400 publishers). While absolutely anyone with a Yahoo account could submit stories from the supported publishers and vote them up or down, it was not possible to submit a story if it did not originate from one of those supported publishers.
The main incentive for publishers was that every day some [...]

Recognize the name Spotplex? If not, no worries. It’s a title given to a startup that’s positioned as a news tracker of sorts specifically aimed at ranking new posts, pages, developments, etc., in the world of blogs. Simple enough, right? Okay.
So, you’re thinking, that’s cool, but what’s the reason for the site’s mention today? Well, dear Profy reader, it recently had itself a few updates, and we thought we’d be a right good messenger and bring you the news. And, [...]

Tossing its hat into the social bookmark ring is NetVouz.   NetVouz is competing with nearly one hundred already existing social bookmakring sites, including del.icio.us, Furl , Reddit and StumbleUpon.  In fact, there are so many sites that offer social bookmarking services we have several articles on the topic here at Profy.
Each of these social bookmarking sites tries to set itself apart by offering a unique twist or feature. For example, Digg has made its name by combining a social bookmarking feature [...]

Users of the popular Google Maps service now have unique identities and can interact with other users with the addition of user profiles, a feature that was launched by Google yesterday.
Previously, the only interactivity users had on the service was through business reviews and the creation of personalized maps (although they were private and could not be shared with others).
Now, each user is provided with a profile, which is essentially a collection of each person's activity on the mapping service. [...]

Considering how popular that social bookmarking has become and the fact that Google is the most used search engine, a social bookmarking site for the search giant seems far overdue. Google has already been offering a bookmark service, but saved bookmarks were stored privately in user's accounts, which left the social aspect lacking.
Perhaps Google is going along with the saying 'better late than never' as it has now launched Shared Stuff (creative name, huh?), which seems like a [...]

There are several different social bookmarking sites around, and many people use more than one of them on a daily basis. Keeping track of all of these account can be time-consuming. Until now, there has not really been a service that aims to make this task easier.
Notifir is an interesting new tracking service, which has just gone public, that plans to simplify the process of managing and keeping track of social bookmarking accounts from one central location.
Eventually, the service [...]

A memo was delivered to the Profy editorial team recently, in which the creators of a new service of the feed-reading/social-bookmarking variety (I don’t know whether to call that a mismatch or a play on redundancy) asked for a review. While I don’t normally take such assignments, I decided to do so, particularly after taking a brief stroll through the website. Here goes.
The service, dubbed Feedest, is, in a word, terrible. Yes, terrible. Go, take a look for yourself. I’m [...]