Enjoysthin.gs: A Dazzling New Way to Share and Discover Multimedia
The internet is a visual medium, so it's no surprise that visual bookmarking services are becoming increasingly popular. The newest one we've discovered, called Enjoysthin.gs, takes the cake so far.
Enjoysthin.gs lets you share all kinds of media, from images to videos to quotes to audio you call in and record from your phone. The interface is beautiful and the site is a real joy to use.
The service was created by Ted Roden, formerly of artists' video site Vimeo and now a "creative technologist" at the New York Times.
The user experience on the site is a real home run; from browsing through the beautifully displayed items from other users to interacting with the site's basic functionality. Creating an account is remarkably smooth and the plush, over-sized displays make us want to jump up and down and clap our hands.
Anyone can tag items, even those saved by other people, and you can view recent shared items globally by tag. Recent activities by your friends are displayed as another item in a big box when you are logged in. There's even an API for integration with outside services; though we dare anyone to try to make a cooler interface, it would be nice to see Enjoysthin.gs on FriendFeed.
There are clearly more features that are still needed, there are no RSS feeds or ways to view the most popular items, for example. Roden is hard at work improving the site, he added 31 new features in December alone. The new feature that lets you call in a voice recording is very cool - a message we recorded was posted to our profile page in just a few minutes.
You can befriend me at Enjoysthin.gs on this page. I'll probably be using the service for at least the next few days. Not because it's particularly popular, secure, supportive of data portability or anything like that - just because it's so damn much fun to use.
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Interesting bookmarking project.
Here's another mash-up, compiling the photo profile of the top 1000 media personalities. Mr. MacManus is already online.
It pulls photos from all the search engines and creates a friendly interface for users. Members can search and create their own photo profiles and create a badge.
Google FriendConnect is the social network.
Holy Jiminy this site amazingly well thought out from a useability perspective! I read your comment "The user experience on the site is a real home run" and thought cool, but I really visted to see what the actual service of boomarking stuff was like.
Then I saw the little form field amongst the intro text and thought.. "hey can I type in there?". From that point on I was blown away! The ease of use sold me on the product even more than the product itself :)
Thanks for the introduction. Great site.