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LookSmart Hands Over Social Bookmarking Service Furl to Diigo
Search advertising network LookSmart and Diigo, a popular web annotation and research tool, announced a new partnership today. Under the terms of this partnership, LookSmart will transfer Furl, its struggling social bookmarking service, to Diigo. However, while Diigo announced this as an acquisition of Furl, the reality is that Looksmart is getting an equity position in Diigo in return.
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.
Semantic Tagging Service Zigtag (Finally!) Launches
It was two years ago that we first heard of Zigtag, a service that promised to "transform how people search, save and share knowledge & information." Now, after a nine-month private beta, this semantic tagging service has finally launched. But is Zigtag's bookmarking tool intelligent enough for 2009?
Thumbtack: Microsoft Labs Launches New Bookmarking Service
Microsoft Labs today released Thumbtack, a new bookmarking application with a very slick user interface that represents an interesting take on bookmarking and saving online information, though it often falls short on delivering some of the basics that we have come to expect from online bookmarking services.
According to Microsoft, Thumbtack was developed based on user feedback the company received after releasing Listas in 2007. Unlike Listas, however, Thumbtack does not focus on social bookmarking but rather on creating online research collections. Thumbtack supports both IE7 and Firefox, though Firefox users miss out an a few interesting features.
Delicious Mobile? Still a Pipe Dream
Yahoo's popular social bookmarking tool Delicious announced tonight that there is a new mobile version of the site. We were excited to see what that included, but ultimately disappointing that the company had failed to solve the fundamental problem of mobile social bookmarking: that you can't bookmark anything with it.
The new delicious mobile site has a simple interface for seeing your bookmarks and the most popular bookmarks system wide for the day, but it's otherwise extremely limited in functionality.
Visualize Your Bookmarks With Tidy Favorites
Web 2.0 applications like delicious, diigo, Ma.gnolia, and others changed bookmarking forever. What used to be a private activity isolated to your computer became a social experience where friends could easily share, search, blog, and tag each other's favorite links. But personal, private bookmarking never really went away because, face it, there are some links that don't need to be shared. For those links, a service called Tidy Favorites delivers an innovative new way to work with your bookmarks using an intuitive visual search engine and dashboard.
Coming Soon To Chrome: Google Bookmarks?
Is Google finally going to do something with their bookmarking tool, Google Bookmarks? It's possible. In the latest builds of the Chromium project, the open source implementation of the Google Chrome web browser which is the testing ground for new features, a new and improved bookmark manager has been spotted which allows you to import your bookmarks from the Google Bookmarks service.
Widget Platform Clearspring Acquires AddThis
Widget creation platform Clearspring today announced that it acquired AddThis, the popular bookmarking and sharing button. According to Clearspring, this acquisition will allow it to reach a total of 200 million users and 300,000 publishers. AddThis is currently the most popular bookmarking and sharing service on the Internet, while Clearspring provides widgets and analytics for every conceivable social network and publishing platform. With this acquisition, Clearspring aims to become the standard content sharing platform for both publishers and users.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities
Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop short of being "fraud" in the legal sense of the word, they are certainly dishonest and unsavory. In addition to these spam bookmarking requests, we're also seeing HITs for Diggs, Stumbles, Slashdots, etc. of spammers' web pages and web sites.
In case you're unfamiliar, Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourced marketplace for tasks. A person needing work done can set up a HIT (human intelligence task) - the small job they need done. Others come along to perform the HITs, earning micro payments along the way. In this way, businesses, developers, and other individuals have access to an affordable, scalable workforce
Iterasi Launches Mac Version, Scheduler
Iterasi, the dynamic bookmarking tool we told you about earlier this year, has just announced a new release that finally brings their service to the Mac. Previously, Iterasi was available on Windows machines (IE & Firefox), but Iterasi will now also work on Macs via a Firefox plugin. In addition, the much-anticipated scheduling service has also been released.
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