Here’s Delicious 2.0 — what on Earth took them so long?
Months in the making, Yahoo’s bookmarking site Delicious finally rolled out its 2.0 version today.
First, the good:
The confusing del.icio.us web domain has been replaced with delicious.com. While I kind of liked the quirkiness of the old name, it was hard to type into an address bar, and no doubt plenty of people had trouble remembering it. Delicious even acknowledges that on its blog:
So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions… Continue Reading
Diigo releases new version, promising that social bookmarking ain’t dead yet
Social bookmarking was one of those hot areas for a while back in 2006, as Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon exploded into popularity. Clones began to pop up everywhere, but few have managed to gain much ground.
That makes Diigo, a newer social bookmarker aimed toward information gathering that I reviewed last year, sound like something of a throwback. However, Diigo is releasing a new version today, and says it has a small but growing group of devotees.
Diigo… Continue Reading
Roundup: Free calls via texting, Mr. Wong takes on Delicious, Facebook’s growth and more
Here’s the latest action:
Free mobile calls, via texting — An Ottawa company called bOK is using VOIP to give Canadians free mobile calls, using SMS. Here’s how it works: You send a text message with your contact’s phone number to bOK, and, just like better-known JaJah, bOK calls both parties — voila, free incoming call!
The service is temporarily free for any phone number in the U.S. and Canada. Anyone with a US-based phone plan, though,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s roadkill, the VC president?, Winer’s Twitter, more
The latest action:
My Maps kills start-ups? — There is plenty of commentary about how Google’s new feature My Maps is killing off start-ups doing the same thing. The new feature lets you build maps. Platial and Frappr are already doing this. This doesn’t make Google an ogre, as some suggest. An ugly company is one that does due diligence on your company, under guise of possibly partnering or acquiring you, only to pull out at the… Continue Reading
Yoono, a social search engine — without tagging
Yoono is a tool that finds pages relevant to the one you are surfing on, and locates people who are also interested in that site.
This company is notable because similar players like StumbleUpon have become popular lately.
France-based Yoono relies on the goodwill of other users, however, requiring them 1) to download Yoono’s toolbar (and some users are now overwhelmed by toolbars) and then 2) give Yoono permission to search their bookmarks, which it then stores… Continue Reading
Wink, a place to flirt — and prowl
Wink, the social search engine that searches for Web pages that people have bookmarked, tagged or otherwise marked as interesting, has introduced a people search.
You click the people tab (see screenshot below), and you get results from three leading social networks, Bebo, LinkedIn and MySpace. You can filter by gender, age, and dating status — and you can see where this is headed.
This is a good move by LinkedIn to highlight its people search,… Continue Reading