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Tag: social bookmarking
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Introducing Keeeb, a Clipboard Replacement Tool
Salesforce bought social bookmarking tool Clipboard and will be discontinuing many of its services by the end of the month. As a result, users have been trying to find a replacement; a job that Keeeb is vying for.
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Salesforce Buys Social Clipping Service Clipboard
Salesforce has purchased startup Clipboard, which provides a Web content clipping and social bookmarking service. Terms of the deal were not announced, but news reports indicate the price was about US$ 12 million.
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Share Your Stash with Pistashio
If you thought social bookmarking was dead, think again. First Delicious was resurrected and brought us "stacks.” Now there’s Pistashio, which allows you to add to your “stash.” Stash, Sort & Save Pistashio, formerly known as Radar, makes it easy to quickly save things you want to remember.
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Delicious Relaunched, Adds 'Stacks' Feature as Playlists for the Web
Just a few weeks after announcing their intent to revamp Delicious, AVOS investors Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have resurrected the social bookmarking site.
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StumbleUpon Launches Widget Creator, Makes Sharing of Custom Content Easier
One way of making a website more interactive and up-to-date is by pulling content from other, relevant sources. While content aggregation is one thing, adding a social dimension to content mash-ups will make things more interesting. Popular social bookmarking site StumbleUpon (news, site ) has launched an application
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YouTube Founders' AVOS Acquires Social Media Analytics Provider Tap11, Will Mine Delicious Data
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen weren't crazy when they recently acquired Delicious from Yahoo! through their new startup AVOS (news, site ).
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Yum: YouTube Founders Rescue Delicious from Yahoo
Three cheers! Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, have officially saved Delicious, a popular social bookmarking site, from Yahoo. In December, Delicious appeared on a leaked Yahoo roadmap slide, alongside seven other services, as products that Yahoo was going to kill off: A surprising number of longtime
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Consolidate Your Online Bookmarks with Trunk.ly
In the course of a day, you will probably save a few dozen links distributed over different web services, applications and devices. Keeping tabs on your online bookmarks can be cumbersome given the various sources and applications that you use, though. Social bookmarking service Trunk.ly can help you make better
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Top 3 Usability Tips for Building Better Blogs, Maximizing Engagement
In 2005, Jakob Nielsen shared what he considered to be the top 10 design mistakes of what was once called the ‘weblog.’ Strikingly, five years later, most (if not all) of them still remain true in the world of the engaged web.
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New Digg Beta Allows Publishers to Submit Content Automatically
The overwhelming popularity of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare have overshadowed user-rated news aggregators and social bookmarking sites liked Reddit and Digg. As a result it has forced them back to the drawing board in an effort to revitalize and inspire users.
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Thumbtack: A Bookmarking Service from Microsoft
Live Labs, part of the Microsoft Corporation, has announced a new solution for information tracking.
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OnlyWire, the Automated Bookmarking System that Almost Died
OnlyWire is not new -- nor is automated social bookmarking. What is new is that OnlyWire has released its new version 2.0 and the social bookmarking sites have decided that they are okay. New ownership back in July 2008 surely contributed to this.
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Is Ma.gnolia Destined for Open Source Glory?
Ma.gnolia, a free social bookmarking service, has recently announced plans for a complete rewrite of their social bookmarking system that will lead to improved maintenance, expandability, customization and monetization. With so much work and such little time, Ma.
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GoogleReader Challenges Others like FriendFeed
Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, “Note in Reader”, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already.
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