A few minutes ago social bookmarking site BlueDot launched a new feature called Buzz.
This is a fairly unique product – part del.icio.us/popular and part Digg, and based on tags. On the front page of Buzz are very popular recent bookmarked sites. But there is a “Buzz” area for each tag as well. Just type in bluedot.us/buzz/[TAG] to see it. Here’s the TechCrunch page, for example.
Each page is populated based on users bookmarking and tagging a page. If enough people bookmark it, that link goes to the top of the Buzz list for that tag. As soon as another bookmark with that tag makes it over the Buzz threshold, it is added on top of the old no. 1 and pushes everything else down (like Digg). The result is constantly refreshed content relevant to a given tag. Users can subscribe to the RSS feed for that page, too.
I like BlueDot a lot because its fast and the interface is awesome. It’s one of the “companies I can’t live without” and has replaced del.icio.us as the place I bookmark web pages.
Our previous coverage of BlueDot is here.
I think BlueDot crashed (the TechCrunch effect?):
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a “web.config” configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its “mode” attribute set to “Off”.
it went down just after we posted, but I think they are just having some issues with the rollout.
Yep, same thing for me. We should just wait a bit. People assume that other people sleep
Alex
Delicious has the benefit of a vibrant third party set of components and services.
E.g. the Firefox del.icio.us toolbar is very nice indeed.
Dion
delicious has done this for a few years.
example: http://del.icio.us/popular/wii
Right, Simpy has had this for a long time now, too:
e.g. http://www.simp...nks/tag/osx/s=c
You can read the meaning from the URL: get links tagged with osx sorted by count/popularity.
other options:
s=c – count
s=d – date
s=r – relevance
In addition, you can replace tag with site (e.g. …site/techcrunch.com ) or with ext (e.g. …ext/mpeg or even etc/mpeg+OR+mov+OR…. ) or combine a few of those things…
The new Bluedot home page now reminds me of Technorati…
We did have a few glitches with our rollout. Sorry about that. I think we’ve worked through most of them now. We’re continuing to do some testing and maintenance items. Hopefully we’ll be up through the night. We were not able to do this deployment without a service outage; which is why we timed it for an evening when fewer of our US users would be active.
Mike, are you serious? delicious and other bookmarking sites have had this feature for a long time!!!!
BlueDot is really cool. I haven’t been there in a few weeks, but used it religiously for awhile.
Rex
I am new to this bookmarking thing. I have not really used blue dot. I will check them out next week. The top three I have been using for past three month are digg, searchles, and del.icio.us. I can’t keep up with all three. I am about dropping digg mainly for two reasons: 1. can’t do any search on their site. Their search is not just working. So, what’s the point of keep on posting my stuff if I can’t search for it later? 2. I can’t share my links with anyone. There is no group or sharing functionality within my peers. what am I missing about Digg? As for the other two, I am finding searchles much more advanced than del.icio.us. I think they are much more than just a bookmarking site. I like them for their search, group, and people functionality. They recently launched a Widget that looks pretty cool. Just wondering anyone else has experienced and compared the three? In particular what has been your experience with searchles and del.icio.us? or what is so good about blue dot over del.icio.us? Anyone?
So, out of the four I mentioned here, which one would you recommend I stick with and why?
Thanks
Larry
What I want is someone to offer this type of service but as a private edition for companies for internal use and/or for companies offering web services. Especially for companies who need to wade through reams of content and place it in context.
Personally, I don’t want something from IBM or Microsoft that will require more software licenses and software, I want something that I can layer on top of what I already have. I don’t care as much if the service and it’s database is externally hosted/encrypted and integrated through APIs/web services as my underlying content will remain on my servers. I think there is an untapped sweet spot for medium sized enterprises that suffer from disroganized content but have a large enough audience to make this type of service get used.
For example, my company offers thousands of online self-paced courses and hundreds of live online scheduled ILT classes to literally millions of users. Wouldn’t it be great if I could integrate this type of service on top of my course launch pages and from within the courses themselves? Tag it, rate it, add a reviewer comment, show the subsequent ranking and then show the buzz/what’s hot on the homepage. More so than ever in education our learners suffer from ‘I don’t know what I don’t know’ and services like these can help provide a roadmap/guide.
Sincerely,
Ben
Ben Watson ben.watson@thomson.com
VP, Collaboration (Thomson NETg) http://www.netg.com
“Larry”, try not to be so obvious.
What? So much for trying to get feedback via blogs! thanks for reading my note though. If u are familiar with all four, your feedback is greatly appreciated. Otherwise, thanks again! Larry
@Larry – your feedback is greatly appreciated, your call is important to us, please stay on the line.
Mathew – Not to worry. I have been reviewing your site past several month on daily basis. I really like TechCrunch. So, I am not going offline because of comment from a user or even 100 users. It is just I am beginning to believe, it is not a good idea to expect a decent feedback from the users who read an article on your site. I have bookmarked Techcruch. Anyway, do you have any feedback on my earlier comment? Thanks Larry
Well said!
That is a really cool feature and I never knew Technorati or Digg had something like this. If I knew but too bad I couldn’t get my company up there. Where too small to be the most popular. Maybe in the future but I don’t think my company can get up there. If it was and we got clicks I would have the company enjoy my seo. But for now i’ll go with the popular items like the wii up front.
There is another site very similar to digg but with one big difference. Its indianized. Stories from india only. its called indianpad.com.
Hey, I work for Indianpad.com. it’s great 2 see our website listed all over the internet. Wish to see our second huge website makemoneykingdom.com on such lists.
Great going dude, thanks again
Regards,
John R Wendwell