Every now and then I get to write about something that takes a good idea and makes it better. When I first read TechCrunch’s review of Diigo back in March of 2006, I yawned, despite the reviewers enthusiasm. I had looked at many of the social bookmarking sites and saw nothing innovative. My own lack [...]

Independently finding a website then finding a message like this:

Sorry folks, but the Official Seal Generator made it to the front page of digg.com, and the server is completely overwhelmed. It’ll be back soon.

Grrrr.

Is there a fundamental difference between sites like del.icio.us and digg?

They are often lumped together in the same category of social bookmarking. However, del.icio.us, spurl and their cousins are true social bookmarking services. Sites like Digg and Newsvine are more social news services.

Socialbookmarking provides benefits for the bookmarker and for the community of [...]

A question was raised on SEOMoz about whether those little links at the bottom of blogs posts that allow readers to add the post to delicious or digg where actually pressuring readers to endorse the post.

It is afterall just a link. The only pressure I have ever felt to click on a link [...]

The good folks over at Blinklist want to know your opinion of social bookmarking tools. They have created a social bookmarking survey to elicit user comments. It is a simple survey that asks two questions:

What social bookmarking services do you use? What’s the most important feature missing, that would make your Social [...]

Lists with a Lisp? No not really. Think Flickr, but instead of one’s own photographs, using any image from the web.

Wists is used for creating visual bookmarks. Wists works like most other social bookmarking systems. Add the Wist bookmarklet to the browser toolbar and bookmark away. When the bookmarklet is pressed, Wists gathers [...]

Well, umm. Errr.

Gataga was on my list of sites to review. However, it is no longer there. Gataga.com is redirected to their blogspot. The last post on July 12th (today) states:

Goodbye Earthlings,

We’ve been summoned back to our home planet.

Gataga was launched on June 6th, 2005. A [...]

BlogMarks is another in a long list of social bookmarking tools. I cannot add much to this review other than what that I have already written about social bookmarking elsewhere.

Blogmarks offers three features that would be of interest to social bookmarkers. The first is the ability to make some bookmarks private. [...]

As social bookmarking takes off, there will be more and more sites that offer the service. The same phenomenon that has occurred with RSS Readers will play out with social bookmarking sites. The key question will be whether these new sites can offer a feature rich service that surpasses that of the original players.

Spurl like del.icio.us and Furl is an online social bookmarking service. A Spurl is a bookmark and stands for SPecial URL.

Spurl like the others has a most popular (Hot Spurls) and a most recent (Just In) category. Users can view their own spurls in Most Visited, Recently Visited, and Latest Spurls categories. Searching [...]

Furl is an online social bookmarking site that is part of the Looksmart family of websites.

Furl employs a more user-friendly interface and attempts to add more features than del.icio.us.

Like any of the social bookmarking sites, Furls uses a bookmarklet to enable users to easily bookmark a page. When bookmarking a page, users [...]

Del.icio.us is probably the most popular social bookmarking site.

Click on the link to read more about social bookmarking .

The best way to describe del.icio.us is to let it describe itself. From the del.icio.us About page:

» del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It [...]

Then here is an article to explain it all to you.

Essentially, social bookmarking takes Browser bookmarks/favorites and makes them a shared resource. Share your favorities with friends and colleagues simply and easily.

I will be reviewing several of the social bookmarking sites in the weeks to come.