Social bookmarking



:: Social bookmarking & online bookmark managers ::

Many of the following are simply social bookmarking apps; some few (e.g., Foxmarks) are bookmark managers. Some are both (e.g., linksaGoGo), hence I have listed all on this same page.

Clearly there is only some small subset of the following that will survive, thrive, and prosper: the world just ain’t big enough to sustain them all over the long haul.

General

  • del.icio.us
    “Keep all your bookmarks in delicious and access them from home, office, anywhere. Share your bookmarks with family, friends, and colleagues. Discover new sites from the delicious community (browse, find, get recommendations).” Created in 2003 as a hobby, and acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005.
    » http://del.icio.us
  • de.lirio.us
    “Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Blogging & Notes”
    » http://de.lirio.us
  • StumbleUpon
    “… an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites [that] have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests.”
    » http://www.stumbleupon.com
  • ButterFly
    One of my favourites. Allows one to bookmark, annotate, insert and save custom hyperlinks, tag, share, translate, search in Google, … This one is really worth a look.
    » http://www.butterflyproject.nl
  • Furl
    “… a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the Web, and lets you find it again instantly by searching your archive of pages. It’s your Personal Web. Furl offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web, and recommends new Web pages that may interest you. You can also search Furl to find the best sites that other people are saving. ”
    » http://www.furl.net
  • Spurl.net
    like Furl, del.icio.us, and others, “… a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows you to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find on the web from any Internet connected computer.”
    » http://www.spurl.net
  • ma.gnolia
    “In Ma.gnolia, people can save website addresses (or the ‘url’) and ‘tag’ them with that words they think people need to find them in a search. That way, when somebody else searches a term, the websites that show up are only the ones that are good enough for real people to want to find them.” In other words, pretty much like any other social bookmarking site.
    » http://ma.gnolia.com
  • Yahoo! MyWeb
  • Netvouz
    “… a social bookmark manager where you can store your favorite links online and access them from any computer. … You organize your bookmarks in categories and tag each bookmark with keywords and can then browse them by category or tag, or search for them. And if you have a blog you can also publish your bookmarks on it via an RSS feed … You can be social and share your bookmarks with others or you can password protect them to keep them private.”
  • Jots
    “… a collaborative bookmarking system that allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links. Store your own links and choose whether to share them with the world, with a select group of people or just for yourself to use. Discover new links based on specific users or topics of interest.”
  • BackFlip
    “As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button to save them and Backflip will organize them for you. Then, simply go to your Backflip account and you’ll find all of your favorite pages filed in your personal directory—which you can access from any computer.”
  • BlogMarks
  • Linkfilter
    A little bit more than just bookmarking: “Linkfilter is exactly what the name implies: a link filter. It is a community weblog in which any user can contribute. Each user has the ability to post links, vote on others’ links, comment on links, chat, keep a journal, post a poll, and a bunch of other neat things. Everything you do earns you points. The more points you get, the more special features you can unlock.”
  • Wists
    “… a free service that lets you visually bookmark any page on the web, then automatically create a small image, text summary and add set of keywords without having to save and upload anything. You can share your visual bookmarks with friends and you can add any non-private items from other wists users to yours by clicking ‘copy to my wists’ under their bookmarks. “
  • Simpy
    “Simpy indexes your bookmarks and lets you search them. It eliminates the need to use bookmark folders (also known as categories) by using tags to create virtual, dynamic folders on the fly. Your bookmarks are stored and backed-up on a remote server, allowing you to access and search them from anywhere (any computer, any browser, work, home, school, hotel). Using your bookmarks as a representation of your interests, you can use Simpy to find like-minded users. For instance, if you have bookmarked a lot of pages about gardening, you can find other Simpy users who like gardening.”
  • Blinklist
  • Blogmemes
  • Feedmelinks
  • linkaGoGo
  • Linkroll
  • Maple
  • OpenBM
  • Rawsugar
  • Shadows
  • Wink

Research and scholarship oriented

  • CiteULike
    “… a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. … Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.” Better than Google Scholar.
  • Connotea
    Much like CiteULike: “… a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users.”
  • Complore
    “complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds, from traditional research areas such as the sciences and engineering to non-traditional fields such as theater and music, through collaboration and networking and provide them a common platform to collectively explore their areas of interest. Thus complore provides people to think and work as a team.
    Complore also provides students, faculty, technical experts and outstanding scholars an opportunity to work in professional collaboration with each other with a stimulating level of scholarship, research, and intellectual engagement that immeasurably enriches their experience. It also provides a common space for students to consider and comment on each and every one’s research materials including their own. By exchanging and building upon each others’ ideas, students are encouraged to work and learn together.”