Posts Tagged ‘Social Bookmarking’

Is it just me or does the new Delicious stacks feature seem familiar…?

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After all the hysteria about Delicious yesterday the company finally speaks up and denies it’s shutting down the popular social bookmarking site. Did they have a change of heart after the fierce reaction?

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Delicious, one of the more widely used social bookmarking services, is undergoing a few changes. And it’s about time. New enhancements to search, tweet, and discover bookmarks have been added to the site, making it even more social and readily able to recommend content to users.

The new search tools include an advanced time line along with tag filtering controls, so you can determine a date range among other filter options for the content you’re seeking. Other updates to the search results page include inline playback for YouTube videos, Flickr images, and Yelp local data.
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Recently launched bookmarking service Amplify is adding a new feature today that changes a significant portion of its site. You’re now able to follow other users, and they can in turn follow you. Yes, it’s kind of like Twitter, and even more like Facebook’s plans for non-reciprocal following, but more specific to the Amplify service.

If you recall, Amplify works as a browser addon that enables you to create custom clips from across the web. You can then share these clips on various social media and networking sites. With Facebook Connect integration, Amplify readily provides a direct outlet for making these custom clips social. But Amplify is also one of the few social bookmarking sites that also archives all of your content into a more digestible clog (think blog) format.
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Finally, after teasing its loyal users with a new design and interface, social bookmarking site previously known as Del.icio.us, has made its changes official. And it even comes with a new domain name, it is now known as Delicious.com minus the excess dots of the previous site. The old site still works and will point you to the new site. With Delicious new name comes a slew of features which are all geared at making your social bookmarking activities more fund and speedier. Read more