Thursday, July 19, 2007

Online Bookmarking sites.......

Intro:-
As we are in a generation where world is running out of time , where technology changes day by day,its hard to any body to have all know knowledge whats happening everyday.For this he has to go through various journals ,magazines ,newspaper, ..so on.Thanks there is internet where anybody can search and get updated information which he wants.

So anyone whats to know any thing they can search through Google or Yahoo(well known search engines) an can get there informations.Now every one know there are n number of site presents for knowledge,News,innovations,exploring... .Now its the matter how to remember those sites.Off course there is a option where one can save those sites as a bookmarks in there browsers.So here problem solved to some extent,i mean to one can only see once bookmarks only in his own system browser.They cannot have those data in any other system,so its a big problem for any body who has huge number of bookmarks.

No prob's you are in a generation where everything possible there are few site which provides you various features in additions to save your bookmarks these sites are called social bookmarking sites.At present there are almost 50+ sites .I have give below some which i know to extent.
Well at present the market is at steady state with dominant leaders as - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon.The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb2.0, appears to be substantially behind.Lets see whether they catch up them or not.I have account in up to 10 site from above.So i can say some of the here, where others i hope to here from you people.

This social bookmarking era has been started from our leader del.icio.us .The simple concept behind is tags present in different web site and blogs.The idea of storing your bookmarks and sharing them to public what you have bookmarked has make the web a rich knowledge storage ecosystem.So lets starts the discussion with the leader ....here i mostly concern with pros and corns .

Lets put a glance :-

del.icio.us

As i already inform that del.icio.us is the dominant share holder of the users,the main features they the reliability its a bit fat easy to use.So we can say its a more user friendly site.You can easy search the tags and get most adequate data.You can categorize your bookmarks.
Where comes to draw back they provide very few additional features with it.They don't provide any marking tools,comment tool.The site too not so fancy.

I don't know exact figure to how many users they have.But on September ,2006,25 they reach to 1 million registered users and on March,2007,29 they reach to 2 million now guess how rapidly they were growing.I have joined to it after that particular mark.




StumbleUpon(Discover new sites)

It was founded on 2001 by Garrett Camp a 28 yr old software engineer along with his 2 friends.Well its has now 2,868,807 registered users today.They provide you a tool bar which is configurable to Firefox & IE browsers,a nice tool bar.Well they provide you to search your site related to videos,photos and you can share them with your friends,you can meet people that have similar interests.So i suppose a differed approach help them to get users.Would be great to have directory and browse related.


diigo

Diigo is different, though. The service is only in beta testing at this point, so you have to actually request an invitation to participate. Diigo not only lets you save a bookmark to the page, but it also allows you to highlight content. It lets you add virtual sticky notes to the page. This really is the ideal tool for research and blogs. You can access your thoughts about a certain web page from anywhere in the world, right on the web page. How many times have you wished that blogs and webpages worked like books. You wish that you could add margins. You wish that the margins could be either public or private. It’s all possible with Diigo.
As i came to know about this site just a week back,so i have used it for a week only but i had much pleased with this site.They provide a tool bar and u can configure it a you want .If you are book marking a site you can also update your del.icio.us bookmark not even only delicious but also few more like shadow,spurl...around 10 well known bookmarking site.You can have a demo on the site itself.
Any being new to market it have very few users in account around a thousands.But any how hope soon it can find its image in market of Social bookmarking sites.


MyWeb2.0

Here's the yahoo he will put his leg every where i suppose.It has been launched on June 29, 2005 by Yahoo Inc.You can tag your bookmark site either as public or private and share it with your friends .As we already have Yahoo tool bar so just we need to upgrade the older bar as new one contain this My web tool bar so that you can bookmark site itself from there.
The main draw back is it doesn't have feature as other bookmarking sites provide.Lets see how they will come up in there


BlinkList

BlinkSpaces - create a community out of your links, nice browser tool bar, all and all really nice.Well it also slag behind when comes to additional features.


Digg:

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by its users. You won’t find editors at Digg — its a place where people can collectively determine the value of content how worth fully is it shown. Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.
The number of registered user reach to 1 million on march ,2007,7. So its totally based on its community i.e its users.Any how i didn't tested it well.Waiting for your comments regarding this.

Shadow,furl,simpy are some of well known site but i didn't use those yet.

Technology Used:

Most of these sites are based on Web2.0 technology.As this the technology which a customer likes more no refreshing of the pages,smooth effects on eye.The basic concept on what this sites are developed is tagging & keyword SEO(Search Engine Optimization) operation.These sites mostly go through the blogging sites.

At last:
Any how these are the few social bookmarking sites which i have used.Lets see who will be leader in future.As the number of sites increasing day by day.Essentiality of this site plays as important role.Thats it friends from my side ,now i am waiting from your side


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