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Social bookmarking lets you keep track of sites of interest while sharing your finds with others. Moreover, a social bookmarking system lets you browse others’ bookmarks as well. One popular such service is del.icio.us. Yahoo! also has its own version at My Web 2.0. Now a new service has launched that is more user-friendly in some ways than these others: BlinkList. Keep track of your bookmarks and those of your friends in one location.
Tags play an important role on such a service. You can add tags to your bookmarks. These bookmarks will show up if anyone browses tags that you associated with a link. Similarly, you can decide to browse what sites people have posted under tags of interest to you.
BlinkList, like del.icio.us, let’s you see who else has bookmarked a site that you have listed. This is particularly interesting since it lets you find others who share interests with you. They may have other sites that you will find beneficial.
BlinkList lets you add some bookmarks privately in case you don’t want to share them with others.
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October 17th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Hi Eszter,
We are so glad that you discovered BlinkList and that you are really liking our service so far! We are working hard at making it better and better so please keep the ideas and suggestions for improvement coming. Also, thanks for mentioning our site on your blog! As you probably already know, blinking is much more fun once you can see the latest and greatest links your friends have been discovering online.
Mike
October 17th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
For another social bookmarking app with private and public links and tags, with full-text search, with topics and topic filters, with searchable, private, free-text notes, etc. see Simpy. Oh, and you can sync your del.icio.us bookmarks, upload, export, and use the REST API with Java and Python libraries, if you are technical.