Social bookmarks review - 3rd edition

I’m proud to present the version 3.0 of my Social bookmarks’ charts.

What’s new?

  • Gibeo was removed from of the charts, as it is a web annotation service, not really a social bookmarking tool.
  • jots, netvouz and blinklist, digg.com, a kind of story rating system, and two more open source solutions – Scuttle and de.lirio.us – have been added. There are 19 services in the charts now.
  • there are some more aspects – e. g. the forming of groups, link validation or how the user is informed about new features and updates.

Get the document here (PDF, 91 KB). If you want to support the evolution of this script, you are invited politely to make a donation or to buy a book for me.

Postscriptum 11/08/2005: I just made some corrections to the document (now Version 3.1).

Postscriptum 12/01/2006: Some more corrections and additions to the document (now Version 3.5) have been made. See here.

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  1. Jack Dean - 12. Juli 2005, 00:46
    I’m sorry we were left out. Hopefully we’ll get included in your next review. BookmarkSync, one of the Internet’s pioneers in bookmark synchronization in the late 90’s is a pretty good social bookmark manager with some unique tools.

    http://www.sync2it.com/bms/susie.php
  2. Meghan Strader - 31. Juli 2005, 03:22
    Well, you cannot capture all social bookmark communities, but I would suggest adding Connectedy.com. The signature on your feature matrix is going to be somewhat different for Connectedy. Basically it was designed by very personal standards. People will like it if they like to have complete control over the organization, sharing, and naming conventions in their links. That’s what its inventor wanted in such a tool. I urge you to check it out: http://www.connectedy.com
  3. Kossatsch - 31. Juli 2005, 10:55
    The problem about Connectedy is that is has few features, especially there is no RSS feed – one reason for me not to include it. Sorry. Contact me when there is a RSS feed included.
  4. Otis - 2. August 2005, 21:04
    Hi,

    Nice to see the updated version. I see some X’s missing in the Simpy column, though:

    Clippings – Simpy has them – you can add them or edit them when you add or edit a link. They are simply called “Notes” (not to be mixed up with a separate Notes feature)

    Send links (tell-a-friend) – Simpy has this. A link labelled “mail” is next to each link.

    Exporting links as – Simpy supports that: http://www.simpy.com/simpy/service/api/rest/GetLinks.jsp

    Link validation – Simpy’s got this, too, via “broken links” and “redirected links”.

    Suggestions for additional categories:
    similar links
    related tags
    related users
    full-text search

    I hope you can update your PDF and thanks again for providing this!
  5. Kossatsch - 3. August 2005, 10:58
    Thanks for your feedback. I’m sorry I’m not so good involved into Simpy features -at least Simpy notes are already mentioned. I will update the PDF as soon as possible.
  6. Carmen Holotescu - 10. August 2005, 09:07
    Hi,

    A wonderful work.

    I kindly suggest you to put on the list wists.com and myprogs.com.

    Carmen
  7. Kossatsch - 10. August 2005, 09:29
    I heard about wists.com some time ago, at an early beta stage and lost it out of sight, thanks. myprogs.com is just a CS2 series promo site and has nothing to do with social bookmarking – maybe you misspelled it?
  8. Mike - 10. August 2005, 10:49
    Thanks for all the hard work in putting this together. I have a few edits for www.BlinkList.com, since we just added a few new features:

    1) It is now possible to leave comments on others links

    2) RSS

    We offer RSS feeds not only for tags but also for users.

    I noticed that you did not mark our RSS feeds as easy to include in home page. Did you try clicking on one of our RSS buttons?

    It automatically generates the JS code for the user. This is more than what I have seend on other services.

    In addition, we offer the ability to easily customize the feed right there.

    Perhaps you did not see this. If you did, please let us know how we can make it even simpler and easier to use.

    3) You can now import links from IE, FireFox and Opera

    4) You mentioned that we do not have search? What type of search are you looking for?

    On del.icio.us I have not found a search function and they have a check and we prominently feature tag search.

    Again, thanks for putting all of this together and please let me know if you have any questions!

    Here are some suggestions for additional features: – Ability to organize links into different channels for easier finding
    – Ability to select favorite tags and links

    Mike
  9. Carmen Holotescu - 10. August 2005, 15:27
    Hi again,

    Thanks for your reply.

    Indeed, the correct address is http://myprogs.net/ – an interesting social bookmark system for programs.

    Carmen
  10. Kossatsch - 10. August 2005, 17:07
    Thanks.
  11. RAINonline - 12. August 2005, 14:27
    Trackback von RAINonline:
    Umfrage: Social Bookmarks - welche(n) Dienst(e) nutzt ihr?

    Bisher kenne ich drei verschiedene Social Bookmarks-Dieste: del.icio.us, furl und Spurl.net. Alle drei haben ihre Vor- und Nachteile und mich interessiert einfach, was ihr so nutzt und warum. ...
  12. Changing Way - 15. August 2005, 18:09
    Trackback von Changing Way:
    Social Bookmarking Tour

    I just found at reddit a link to Simpy. What, I thought, yet another of these social bookmark thingies? How many of these things does the web need, or have? So I went to the wikipedia entry on social bookmarking, which led me to Torsten Rox's compariso...
  13. Web Feeds - 20. September 2005, 13:50
    Web Feeds is a social bookmark site with a difference
    Users moderate and decide which items make it to the home page, only rules being no links to adult related, illegal activity or affiliate sites.

    Web Feeds
  14. dove - 5. Oktober 2005, 04:18
    can somebody help me with some of these terms? i’m trying to learn the ins and outs of social bookmarking…

    Mentions – pages within same domain
    Privacy – archive other feeds

    what are these and what do they mean?
  15. Kossatsch - 7. Oktober 2005, 10:23
    It’s quite easy. Mentions pages withinsame domain means that the service tells you what pages of this domain other people have bookmarked. If you bookmark http://www.irox.de/roxomatic, you will probably see that other people have bookmarked the page http://www.irox.de/roxomatic/856 before.
    The second point means that the service offers a separated page where to collect other people’s feeds, e.g. the del.icio.us inbox.
  16. Mike - 13. Oktober 2005, 17:08
    Hi there. I just wanted to find out if you are working on updating your social bookmarking reviews. If you are, I can send you and update on www.blinklist.com. We just rolled out a lot of new features and improvements that I thought you might find interestig. Bis spaeter, Mike
  17. dgsincliar - 20. Oktober 2005, 18:52
    1. FURL does let you pull your clips by category using the &topics parameter – here’s the syntax I use on my site (note: Category name is hardcoded, but the furl data is automatic) – and they provide this code via their gui configuration tool:

    Creation/Evolution
    [script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.furl.net/siteLatest.jsp?userid=15200&maxitems=7&topics=277947&spawn=y&bullets=n&furl=n”]

    2. Under tools, you should add the attribute “Right click registry edit” – FURL (and delicious, I think) have more than just a bookmarklet feature. You can download a registry hack which adds it to your browswer’s right click (at least, for IE).

    3. Bloglines.com, the excellent online blog aggregator, also has a clipping service – you should add that to your matrix

    If you address these comments in your next eval, I promise you, I will buy you a book. Fantastic job, btw. Keep it up!
  18. dgsinclair - 21. Oktober 2005, 00:53
    Also, SPURL has a feature where you can put a SPURL this button into your blog template, which allows users to just click on the button in your page to spurl the page – and it has a built in counter. Very nice. You should add that to your list of attributes as well ;)

    http://www.spurl.net/settings/tools.php
  19. Prentiss Riddle - 4. November 2005, 16:45
    I’ve been following your work for a while and even cited it in a small paper I wrote a few months back. I’m pleased to see that you’re continuing to update it.

    One system which I hope you’ll consider including in the next revision is Shadows (http://www.shadows.com). Shadows’ unique feature is that it associates URLs not only with tags and bookmarks but with threaded discussions, effectively creating a discussion board for any site on the web.
  20. Kossatsch - 10. November 2005, 11:56
    I had a look at it and Shadow will be part of the next edition.
  21. Reggie - 15. November 2005, 03:11
    Thanks again for all of your work. I like to see this information all in one spot. I always learn something here.
  22. wing - 21. November 2005, 03:25
    I find one major service, Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 missing in this review. Please add it.
  23. [i:rrhoblog] : linkdump - 16. Dezember 2005, 13:23
    Trackback von [i:rrhoblog] : linkdump:


    Social bookmarks review - 3rd edition...
  24. 3spots - 20. Dezember 2005, 11:45
    Trackback von 3spots:
    Torsten Rox's Social bookmark comparison chart

    Torsten Rox's comparison chart is the most serious review about Social bookmarks I've ever seen, he's done a great job.
  25. lernpfade - 28. Dezember 2005, 10:49
    Trackback von lernpfade:
    Diigo - noch ein Social Bookmarking Tool

    Kann sich ein neues social bookmarking Tool gegen Platzhirsche wie Del.icio.us, Furl oder Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 behaupten? (Siehe dazu auch Torsten Roxs Vergleich von 16 Anbietern, Stand August 2005.) Diiego ist zur Zeit noch by invitation only, die Flash-Präsentation auf
  26. 3spots - 9. Januar 2006, 01:01
    Trackback von 3spots:
    ALL Social that CAN bookmark

    Social services that can "manage bookmarks" For better visibility, I've added ' * ' for Liquid layouts and ' * ' for those that can import. * blinklist logo BlinkList*: Beta. Multi service. Some Features: Easy edit/mail with Ajax the '...
  27. Kossatsch - 13. Januar 2006, 19:27

    As you can read above, some more corrections and additions to the document (now Version 3.5) have been made. See here. Please post your comment there.