Web 2.0: Who, What, Why, How » Social Bookmarking

Stumbleupon

tpelkie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:33:27 +0000

founded by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd (2001) - San Francisco, CA

StumbleUpon is a Web browser plugin and internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar.

User ratings
StumbleUpon chooses which new Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. It is a recommendation system which uses peer and social-networking principles.Users can rate, or choose not to rate, any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the Web.

eBay acquired StumbleUpon in May of 2007 for $75,000,000

Furl

tpelkie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:31:08 +0000

furl.net – started in 2003 by MIke Giles, based in San Francisco, CA

Furl is a Social Bookmarking Site that allows you to save, share and explore your favorite Web pages.

Furl is a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you to quickly find them again. Furl archives a personal copy of every page you save. When you want to recall it, you can find it instantly by searching the full text your archived items. Each member has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB), large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items.

Furl recommends new Web pages that may interest you, guided by the sites you’ve already “Furled,” or saved.

Furl also offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web. Send a daily email newsletter of links to friends and colleagues, use Furl to generate RSS feeds for your links, or integrate them quickly and easily into an existing Web site.

Furl was founded in the spring of 2003 by Mike Giles, and is part of the LookSmart family. For more information, please see LookSmart’s About Us

Digg

tpelkie — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:23:31 +0000

Website: http://digg.com - founded by Kevin Rose in Nov 2004, San Francisco, CA - see also the podcast http://diggnation.com

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content across the web, from the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog. Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users.

Every article submitted to Digg has a count of how many Diggs the story has received. You need to be signed-in to Digg a story. For every registered user that clicks “Digg it” the count goes up one. If a story reaches the tipping point, then it gets promoted to the homepage.

Add This – Social Bookmarking Button

tpelkie — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:53:36 +0000

AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet.

AddThis (Launched in September 2006) has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…and again…and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase its popularity and ranking.

Website: http://www.addthis.com