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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 05 2008 | From Google Reader, del.icio.us, social bookmarking
    Build A Custom Search Engine Using Your Social Bookmarks

    Quoted: Last week, Yahoo finally unveiled the long-awaited new version of the social bookmarking site Delicious. Along with the new URL, simply delicious.com, the site got a revamped UI and added new features like selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks. However, amid the delighted oohs and ahhs from the tech community over the new-and-improved

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 02 2008 | From Google Reader, lookmarks, social bookmarking
    What next for Lookmarks?

    Adam Loving's social bookmarking site.

    Quoted: Image via Wikipedia Lookmarks is my simple link sharing site that died under the weight of link spammers (both bots and humans). I’ve been trying to think of a way to re-work the site to capture the enthusiasm of all those unexpected “customers”. I’ve got the site half-way ported to Google App Engine, and I’m taking an internet marketing course...

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2008 | addtoany, social bookmarking, startups
    Add to Any Knows What You Like, Dives into Recommendations

    Quoted: Called Smart Menus, this Add to Any upgrade automatically adjusts to individual users, placing the most used services first in the expandable Add to Any widget.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | From Google Reader, social bookmarking
    Microsoft Jumping Into Social Bookmarking

    Quoted: According to Microsoft Evangalist John Martin, the company is set to release a product called “Social Bookmarks” this week. The product sounds a whole lot like del.icio.us, and will initially be deployed on MSDN and TechNet, so look for it to be mostly hardcore techie bookmarks for now. Features include bookmarking (presumably via a bookmarklet),

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2008 | yahoo, social bookmarking, faves, del.icio.us, bdmentions
    SarahLacy.com: Once Delicious, Now Stale

    We were mentioned on Sarah Lacy's blog last month.

    Quoted: Michael [Arrington] appears extra frustrated because like most of us he wants Delicious to succeed. As a matter of fact, he named Delicious one of the Web Apps you can't live without in 2006, but then dumped Delicious in 2007 for BlueDot (Now Faves.com) because they were surpassed when it came to features.
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    While Yahoo has been asleep at the wheel, countless new social bookmarking services have pulled ahead of the once king of online favorites. The best of the bunch being Magnolia and Faves.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 11 2008 | From Google Reader, del.icio.us, yahoo, social bookmarking
    Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms

    Quoted: Earlier today, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote a post expressing concern that Web startups tend to languish after they are bought by big companies. To help make his point, Wilson reproduced the comScore chart above, which suggests that the number of people visiting the bookmarking service del.icio.us, which is owned by

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 22 2008 | search, social bookmarking, google
    Will Social Bookmarking Pay Dividends with Search Result Augmentation? - ReadWriteWeb

    Quoted: What we're most interested in, though is how social bookmarking can be used to affect search engine rankings.
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    While the paper doesn't make any conclusions regarding the relevancy of URLs that are tagged more than once, it has long been our contention that the number of times a URL has been saved, in conjunction with tag data for that URL, could be used by search engines to augment ranking algorithms -- i.e., URLs that are saved more (or more often) are likely to be more useful.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2007 | social bookmarking, web 2.0, bdmentions, blue dot, faves
    Hypertext - The wide world of the web | Chicago Tribune | Blog

    We are mentioned in an article on social bookmarking in the ChicagoTribune.com

    Quoted: The executives of one of the services, faves.com (formerly Blue Dot), said they have counted at least 50 competitors occupying one corner or another of ...

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2007 | social bookmarking, blue dot, bdmentions, faves
    Blue Dot is Now Faves: New Name, New Features

    Re-fave-d.

    Quoted: Some of the other changes on the new site include the ability to subscribe to Topics, in addition to paying attention only to your friends’ ...

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 01 2007 | social bookmarking, edmundyu
    xhilarate : supercharged creative bookmarks

    A very visual personal bookmark collection. My designer friend Edmund Yu had his design site accepted here.

    Quoted:The xhilarate website started off with a simple idea of sharing Michael McDonald's personal bookmark collection. xhilarate promotes phenomenal website design, thinking, creativity, innovative technology and is a source of creative inspiration and research for aspiring creators.

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