Social Bookmarking News & Articles

If you thought social bookmarking was dead, think again. First Delicious was resurrected and brought us "stacks.” Now there’s Pistashio, which allows you to add to your “stash.”

Just a few weeks after announcing their intent to revamp Delicious, AVOS investors Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have resurrected the social bookmarking site. Will Delicious rise up from the ashes and revitalize the social bookmarking scene?

One way of making a website more interactive and up-to-date is by pulling content from other, relevant sources. While content aggregation is one thing, adding a social dimension to content mash-ups will make things more interesting. Popular social bookmarking site StumbleUpon (news, site) has launched an application that makes such sharing of content easier through widgets.

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen weren't crazy when they recently acquired Delicious from Yahoo! through their new startup AVOS (news, site). While Yahoo! couldn't seem to make heads nor tails with Delicious, AVOS goes one step ahead by combining Delicious' rich mine of business intelligence with social analytics technology from Tap11.

Three cheers! Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, have officially saved Delicious, a popular social bookmarking site, from Yahoo.

In the course of a day, you will probably save a few dozen links distributed over different web services, applications and devices. Keeping tabs on your online bookmarks can be cumbersome given the various sources and applications that you use, though. Social bookmarking service Trunk.ly can help you make better sense out of your bookmarks.

In 2005, Jakob Nielsen shared what he considered to be the top 10 design mistakes of what was once called the ‘weblog.’ Strikingly, five years later, most (if not all) of them still remain true in the world of the engaged web.

The overwhelming popularity of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare have overshadowed user-rated news aggregators and social bookmarking sites liked Reddit and Digg. As a result it has forced them back to the drawing board in an effort to revitalize and inspire users.

Live Labs, part of the Microsoft Corporation, has announced a new solution for people who want to keep track of all the information they find useful on the web. Thumbtack is similar to social bookmarking, but takes the service to new levels calling it a online research collection tool.

OnlyWire is not new -- nor is automated social bookmarking. What is new is that OnlyWire has released its new version 2.0 and the social bookmarking sites have decided that they are okay. New ownership back in July 2008 surely contributed to this.

Ma.gnolia, a free social bookmarking service, has recently announced plans for a complete rewrite of their social bookmarking system that will lead to improved maintenance, expandability, customization and monetization. With so much work and such little time, Ma.gnolia certainly has its hands full with all the things planned for the future.

Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, “Note in Reader”, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already. Can Google compete?

Today marks the release of TagManage 2007, an SMB (small and mid-sized business) app for social bookmarking and blogging. TagManage was created by samuelbressi productions (yes, all lowercase).

Clients can install TagManage onto their intranets and enable employees to bookmark frequently-visited sites and publish blog entries.

“TagManage is built upon four basic, fundamental principles: bookmark, blog, tag, and share,” said Samuel Bressi. (We’ll let you guess what his position is in the company.)

“Users can apply tags to bookmarks, blogs, and even other users, creating a social mesh of shared resources.”

Bookmarks and blog entries can be marked either public or private, making it a dandy addition to enterprises that want to reinvigorate the line between public and private activity.

Mess around with TagManage at the TagManage website.