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Diigo

Diigo (DEE-go) is a Social bookmarking website which allows signed users to bookmark and tag web-pages. More exclusively, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff". The launch of Diigo met with mixed respon...

Furl

Furl (from File Uniform Resource Locators) is a free social bookmarking website that allows members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member receives 5 gigabytes of storage space. The site was founded by Mike Giles in 2003 and purchased by LookSmart in 2004. Features Furl enables members to bookmark, annotate, and share web pages. Topics are used to categorize saved sites, similar to the tagging feature of other social websites. Additionally, a user ...

Google Bookmarks

Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders. The service allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes. Labels and notes are searchable, and users can access their bookmarks from any computer by signing in on one's Personalized Homepage. Google toolbar has tools enabling a user to easily create bookmarks and quickly access them. Bookmarks can also be created manually from the web interface, or by use of third-...

Ma.gnolia

Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking web site comparable to Delicious or Simpy. A prominent feature that distinguishes it from other similar web sites is the group feature, which allows several users to share a common collection of bookmarks. The group is managed by a selected number of group managers. Users may rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private. Integration The design of the web site allows for integration of the service into other applications via a REST API, or an similar to th...

Tumblr

Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog. The difference is that its extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is v...
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