Library clips

TellFriends - social bookmarking and voting friend network, also see hypeit, heeii and others

Jangl updated - formerly a widget for your blog where people could leave a voicemail via an ID number. Now you can go to the website and enter the email of the person you want to contact, in return you get a number to call to talk or leave a voicemail which will be emailed to the person along with a number to call you on…this could become a voicemail or VOIP social network. [via TC]

attendio - an event social network, see the others in this game. [via m]

keepm - a new contact manager [via m]

CoRank - create your own hosted memedigger, also see Pligg (not hosted) and crispy news (eg.)

How often do you send and receive emails containing cool web links, funny video’s, presentations, etc….

Sharing links; first it was by composing an email, then it was from an email feature in your RSS Reader (but then you can’t share links you find outside the reader), then it was from your social bookmarks (but the del.icio.us links for you only works if all parties use del.icio.us).

There are various ways to share links via; IM, surf and chat tools, a blog post footer, but this post is more about an easier way to send links to your contacts, and of late the browser seems to be the most obvious choice.
As a matter of fact I think lots of services should incorporate contacts plug-in, so when ever I come across a link I can easily send it to my contacts, whether I’m inside my RSS Reader, email, IM, social network, etc…

Of late we have seen lots of services and social networks pop-up that are designed to share links with friends within and outside of the network. The idea here is more on the ease of sharing links, eg. dragging them to an avatar.

As mentioned I want to be able access my contacts list and contact groups from my browser and drag in the link/s.
This is the idea of ShareThis (formerly share2me), it will harvest your contacts list from various services you use (or add them manually), and recipients can receive the links via email, IM, or a notification within the network itself, and even as messages in other social networks.
Now if you add your own profile from the available social networks or add your own email, you can remind yourself of stuff, why not add posting to social bookmarks, publishing to your blog, etc…

It doesn’t seem to have SMS notification, but how about Particls (formerly Touchstone) type of delivery choices like a pop up sticky note right there on your friends PC (I guess they would have to be registered with ShareThis for intimate delivery).

Only issue I have with ShareThis so far is that I can’t view my contacts list…they are using Plaxo for the contacts module (good partnership idea), so if I sign up I will be able to access my contacts. But regardless I still want a link to Plaxo within my profile or better still view my contacts within ShareThis.
Also when you share a webpage I’d like to choose from a drop down list of my contacts, as I can’t remember who I have in my contacts list…and of course contact groups would be great.

I’d like to plug-in the ShareThis button into my RSS Reader, just as you can into the footer of my blog posts, not to be confused with ShareThis wordpress plugin.

NOTE: not sure if you can share links with other ShareThis users, it seems you can’t as it really isn’t a social network yet, where you can add friends or see their profiles, or leave comments to a particular item and your profile in general…although it seems I can leave comments to one of my own items.

And of course you get an archive of all these links you have shared, probably want to tag them or search them for future retrieval…hope this is coming soon.

As long as you can install the button on any PC, you will be able to share links…I can see ShareThis maturing into a ultra handy product, I feel it will become another regular tool into my everyday toolkit, and that’s rare that a tool sticks to being used everyday.

I posted on a similar idea for a ping social network, instead of sending an email or IM, it sends a new item in you contacts user space (notification could be by email , IM, etc…).
The difference is that you can ping them as you publish a blog post and as you comment in other blog posts, ie. when you hit send your blog post or comment is published and at the same time you have also pinged your contacts.

Here’s a list of recommended links services…ShareThis shines as it has the killer feature of various delivery methods and sending to contacts that aren’t registered with ShareThis.

Stumble Upon

The Coop

Hypeit (now Spokeo)

PluralList

Tubes

ShareThis

bzzster

yoono
[ADDED 31/05/07: Yoono is a download app that seems to have the same features as ShareThis, ie. send to contacts that aren’t registered with Yoono, different types of delivery, and even posting to your blog…see comment]

Tellfriends

Services more oriented to recommendation are Heeii and Blogrovr…me.dium, chatsum, others online and Reko recommend people. I guess most of the profile aggregators or lifestream type of services double up as expert locators that have people recommendation.

[ADDED 22/07/07: FeedEachOther has link sharing, as well as several lifestream services, such as ProfileFly and Comwat.]

[ADDED 30/07/07: Siphs]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Streamy : Social Network RSS Reader, lifestreams and attention groups]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Siphs : link blogging and sharing]

[ADDED 21/09/07: Google Shared Stuff and other common ways to share]

I posted about Particls a while back when it was called Touchstone, basically it is a personalised information filter and alert service.

A popular use is to input some feeds, OPML or search some keywords, and then adjust some settings…additionally to these manual settings you can let particls learn from you, it learns from your click behaviour and will filter only the information it thinks you like based on the past clicks.

Apart from filtering information it also delivers information according to your attention requirements, whether it’s a ticker, pop-up toast, click trail, sticky note, etc…

particls is not limited to RSS feeds, the idea is for any format type of information to be fed into an adapter and come out the other end.

So what’s new besides the name change?

Right-click menu
- rate items
- action items to places like del.icio.us, digg, sphere, etc…create more.

Tear-offs
- for those ticker items and pop-up alerts that you want to read in a few minutes time, you can tear them and place them as a post-it note on your desktop

Images
- alerts now have images

Auto-Away
- will automatically detect when you’re away from your computer. It will then hold off your alerts until you come back.

Auto-subscriber
- the auto-subscriber can learn which sites you visit most regularly and automatically subscribe to those sites for you.

Persistent searches
- basically like a search feed

You own RSS feed
- similar to the Google Reader clip blog, you get your own RSS feed that others can subscribe to, or that you could put in a widget so others can see the latest stuff you are paying attention (based on highly rated items).

For the publisher

Just like some widgets services allow you to offer a take away widget of your blog, so does particls. You can offer people a fully branded particls version of your blog that people can download.
This can be re-skinned and turned into a regular particls app, but if it was downloaded from your blog, you get the revenue…that’s an incredibly fair offer.

Triblr - is a p2p file sharing social network, similar are Qnext and others

Purplenova - turn your computer into a web server, ie. every file/folder on your computer gets a URL, where others can access it (stream) from your computer…seems like the webified version of Triblr above.
[via DI]

PageFlakes Pagecasts - PageFlakes has revamped its public pages now called Pagecasts, others in this space are Webjam and Netvibes Universe…the Zimbio topic portal directory formerly had a widget page summary view, but now it has changed to wikizines. See here for similar non-widget based topic pages. [via TC]

BackupBlogOnline - from their website:
“With BlogBackupOnline, users can create a full blog backup, schedule automatic daily backups, restore a blog, transfer a blog to another platform, and export their backup file in RSS format.”
For those that publish blogs on a 3rd party client like Qumana or WriteToMyBlog, will already have a back up…or perhaps you use Word or an Office 2.0 word processor…or even bookmark all your posts on Furl where they are cached.

NewsGator Desktop - system tray pop-up toast alerts for those warm treats, also see Alertbear, Newsplorer, Newzie, Touchstone (now particls), Blerts, NewsGator Desktop Alert

MyBlogLog is a blog network and community, basically you register yourself as a person and register your blogs, people can message you, and add you as a friend, they can also join your blog as a community fan.

So you could describe it as a social network for blogs, but now it’s even more, it is an expert locator based on explicit tags. This means yourself and others can tag your user space, and all your blogs.
Since I’ve only got one blog and I blog about all my interests, the tags for my user space and the tags for my blog are quite similar. I suppose I don’t blog about music, so I could tag myself with some music tags like “electronica”.

At the moment they don’t have a tag cloud so you have to append the URL eg. http://mybloglog.com/buzz/tags/folksonomy

Similar blog network type services as an expert locator are: ziki, others online, explode, blogcatalog…also see selected Lifestream services (these are similar to Ziki).

Ziki allows you to tag others, but this is only displayed in your view, whereas when you tag others in MyBlogLog it’s there on the general view, just hover over a tag and see who tagged that person with that tag…I wonder if they got this discover and reciprocate tagging from Fringe Contacts.

I guess the Technorati Blog Finder is an expert locator, like most of the others it’s only based on self tags.

MyBlogLog blog (that’s a mouthful) tells us that you can change the settings on others tagging you…it can be set at me, my contacts, everyone.