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March 03, 2006

A Listing Of Tagging & Social Bookmark Services

A running list of sites related to tagging and social bookmarking:

Site

Description

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Blinklist

Social bookmark service

Add support for private links, watchlists and plans to add spaces for groups.

Connotea

Social bookmark service, personal library

Organize references and bookmarks for researchers and clinicians. Open source, can be downloaded.

CiteULike

Social bookmark service, automatically extracts citation information.

Targeted at academics to help store and organize papers, sites and other information. Plug-in capability exists.

Del.icio.us

Social bookmark service

Generally credited with sparking interest in this space.

De.lirio.us

Social bookmark service and enterprise tagging tool

Downloadable for intranet use.

Digg

“Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. “

Social bookmarking is only one aspect of this hybrid site and service.

Flickr

Photo management and sharing

Generally credited with sparking interest in this space.

Flipper

“FlipSkipper is a "river-of-news" style RSS feed aggregator. Unlike other aggregators, FlipSkipper doesn't use folders to classify individual feeds, but instead uses tags that display many feeds!”

An example of applying tags to categorize news feeds. The tag is the channel with multiple feeds merged together based on that tag relationship.

Freetag

Tagging plug-in.

Open source tagging module for PHP/My SQL applications.

Furl

Social bookmark service

Actually saves a copy of what is bookmarked (personal archive).

Jamendo

Artists distribute music under a creative commons license that enables members to download, remix and share music.

An example of tags being used to determine popularity and order music. Tags help build community in addition to discovery and navigation,

Jeteye

More of an online scrapbook service that supports bookmark and tag concepts.

Enables users to create a “jetpak” (a bundle of links and notes). Tags are used to categorize jetpaks.

Jots

Social bookmark service

Supports sharing of links at a private, group and public level.

Linkroll

Social bookmark service

Modeled after del.icio.us

Ma.gnolia

Social bookmark service

Modeled after del.icio.us supporting concepts of bookmarks, tags, and groups (communities around bookmarks).

My Web 2.0
by Yahoo!

Social bookmark service

Associated with Yahoo 360°

NetInfo

Enterprise

tagging tool

Team bookmarking for the enterprise

Netvouz

Social bookmark service

Modeled after del.icio.us

OpenDocs

Enterprise tagging tool

For intranet use

Oyax

Social bookmark service

Modeled after del.icio.us

RawSugar

Emphasizes a directory structure and topical navigation framework on top of tagging and bookmarking.

Good compare and contrast with del.icio.us.

Scuttle

Social bookmark service

Open source effort that enables intranet use

Simpy

Social bookmark service

Advantages over del.icio.us.

Shadows

Social bookmark service

Park of Pluck, a social media company.

Spurl

Social bookmark service

Modeled after del.icio.us and furl (archives personal copy)

TagFacts

Keep track of notes

Tags help organize note taking.

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Mike Gotta has a great little spreadsheet of links to tagging and social bookmarking services. There are a couple of dozen in the list and it's a great reference. Check out RawSugar and Shadows. [Read More]

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