Google Enters Social Bookmarking space - Digg and Stumble Upon better watchout
Just read a while ago on Adams’s post on Mashable that Google has quietly launched a new Social Bookmarking Service which lets you share your stuff with others. Google is providing a small bookmarklet which you can install on your browsers toolbar which creates a Share button. When you click this share button, it lets you post this page to your profile or email it to your friends or bookmark it with other popular book-marking services, and also posts it to most popular shared stuff page.
Digg dominates the Social News bookmarking space which StumbleUpon is a social recommendation service which is essentially Social Search. Google entry into this space may effect Digg and StumbleUpon in the long run.
However the ‘Share’ logo in use by Google Bookmarket is the same as in the ‘ShareThis’ Wordpress plugin by Alex King from the Share Icon project. Functionality provided is also the silmilar to Alex King’s ‘Share This’ plugin.
We will keep an eye on Google’s Social Bookmarking moves to build upon Social Search and keep you informed.
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Deep Jive Interests » Google Shares: Its "Meh", But That's Ok. Here's Why. said,
September 20, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
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Google Gets In On Social Bookmarking said,
September 20, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
[…] the Silicon Valley Blog noticed, "the ‘Share’ logo in use by Google Bookmarket is the same as in the […]