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CommonGate is a service that allows you to start up your own communal weblog in a social network environment…or you can just run around posting on other communal blogs.

Everyone creates an account, then you start being social by joining gates eg. web2.0…simply click post and write a post and tag it, now your post is part of this gate (I guess the term gate refers to a topic gateway).

If you go back to your user space you will also see your posts from all the gates you have been blogging at, you also get your own feed. The sidebar hosts links to the homepage of your favourite gates and a space for people to leave comments…there’s even an inbox to send and receive messages…and also a space to list your favourite CommonGaters.

Here is an example user.

Even create your own gate, each has an RSS feed and a tag cloud, you can also re-syndicate feeds on the sidebar…a bit of newsmastering on the side

CommonGate is not to heavy with features, it is dead easy and effective…I like that fact that you can run around blogging in all different gates, and they are all collated in your user space.

It kind of reminds me of the tag-based forums where you can post all over the place, and see all your posts at your user space…CommonGate has this feel added to the blogging concept, but what makes it even more special is the network part…a lot of services are considered social, but not neccessarily a network.

I’m really short for time to write up on all the latest tools, so I’m going to have to refer you to write ups from my Reading List circle.

Tagtooga
- social bookmarks in wiki (communal editing of bookmarks)…option to set private tags
- tags organised in categories
- domain search
- create groups
- voting
- comments
- submit to other social bookmark services
- Sidebar quick links (like favourites…similar to Blinklist)
- thumbnail feedrolls

Markaboo
- Open source
- tag notes (like Simpy notes, TagFacts, TextSnippets, NoteTagger, etc…)
- save and tag files

Searchles
- groups
- friends list
- comments
- searchle (search within your groups and friends)
- more

Butterfly
- annotations (eg. diigo)
- sets (create lists)…also see listible and H20 Playlist, jeteye, wink, prefound, memeflow

Blue Dot
- heavily based on networks and friends

Stumble Upon

Swarm (not a social bookmark manager)
- browse webpages people are looking at right now and chat about it…see the swarm…join the swarm via a browser extension.
- I agree, it needs browsing by topic (how would a topic be defined, maybe it could ride on a social bookmark service, or maybe it could decide a topic itself by some time of text analysis.)

Foundd (this is a personal bookmark manager)
- built in drop down choice of search engines
- from a search result drag a link or the icon from the address bar into your Foundd folder
- Tag and describe your item

[ADDED: Fungow, Plum (also save and tag desktop files), and Taggly]

scale|free has a list on social software in the enterprise…posts like this are really showing that km2.0 is generating a whole lot of interest.

Two that took my interest are ConnectBeam and Cogenz…finally a serious attempt at enterprise social bookmarking since IBM’s private dogear.

Related:
Enterprise social sharing structure
Enterprise bookmarking again
Internal communication blogs and km2.0
fringe contacts: people tagging
KM2.0 newmastering