Google has entered the social bookmarking market with a new product called Shared Stuff.
Shared Stuff is simple enough; users drag a “email/ share” button into their browser, and click it when they want to add pages to their Shared Stuff profile. Links can include an image, text extract, and/ or a user comment. The results can then be viewed directly, via iGoogle or RSS. An interesting addition is the option to use Shared Stuff to post links to other social booking sites as well, including Facebook Furl, Delicious, Reddit and Digg.
Friend can be invited by email, and bookmarks made by Gmail contacts using the service can be viewed as well.
Google Blogscoped suggests that bookmarks can be searched as well, via tag or url, although the feature wasn’t immediately evident on the site when I visited it.
Google already has a bookmarking service (Google Bookmarks) so it’s not clear whether this is an experiment that may later be rolled into that product, or is planned as a long term stand alone site. Overall it’s not the most amazing service; after all social bookmarking sites have been around for a long time and mostly one service appears the same as another, however with Google running the site it always has the opportunity to go well.
Delicious+Pownce=Shared Stuff. A surprisingly “me too” effort by Google. Shouldn’t all this be inside my Gmail account already?
Same old crap in a new bottle…
Yahoo did this with MyWeb a couple of years back. But I suppose now that Google is doing it, everyone is bound to love it, and say how innovative Google are.
*yawn*
del.icio.us owns my social bookmarks.
What’s all this ’sharing’ and ’socializing’ going on all over the net these days? I tell ya I just don’t like it, don’t like it one bit! Hey you kids get off my lawn!!
Interesting. But this all sounds very much like Simpy.
The same functionality already exists there and has existed for years:
- Share/save/bookmark a web page (via bookmarklet or one of the Firefox extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/search?q=simpy )
- Email 1 or more people while adding a web page
- Share a web page with 1 or more groups that you are a member of
- See the number of other people who already saved the same page, and see how they’ve tagged it
And here is a screenshot of what I’m talking about, for those not using Simpy yet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ otis/543968564/
You know those IMs you get through the day from friends co-workers with a link to something on youtube or digg? That’s what this is for: links you want people to check out but aren’t worth actually bookmarking (certainly not worth categorizing with tags)
Maybe google finally realised that it is better to build the apps themselves rather than pay a highly inflated price by going the aqqusition route.
Google is every where. Appreciate they providing this feature.
I hope they will provide the CACHING feature, where none of the other players do.
BlinkList and Delicious watch out…
I’m surprised nobody made a comment about Google essentially supporting Yahoo!’s del.icio.us by this. Weird…
Nag:
Simpy is about to add support for page caching (as well as link checking, full-text search, search term highlighting and search hit snippets).
Thanks Otis. That is really good to know. Am sure that will make a big difference in this arena..
From what i see, this can be used for saving the revisions of the websites tracking comments what not.. am looking forward for this..
Not exactly what I would call stellar google app beta that i’ve come to expect. Is it a beta? Doesn’t say anywhere.
I had to find out that tags are seperated by comma’s
Not allowed to edit tags after an item is posted. Actually you can if you go to the saved page and then hit the share link again it will go to an edit page.
No easy url for getting tagged stuff, like http://del.icio.us/tag/google
No preferences, if i used this i would just want to share links and not previews
I much prefer the more compact list that del.icio.us provides.
I’ve used del.icio.us for awhile and love it so I might be biased.
GOog want everything.
Google Reader already has a shared page that is very similar. It would make more sense if there was one shared page that both reader and this share button fed into.
I agree with others. I have a dozen profiles. I dont want to sign up for another service and then convince my friends to sign up. I never use most of these accounts because of the lack of Migration. Most of us already have a profile under Google’s search or Gmail. Just slap on a profile for us to slap things on to. Its ironic that we have all these “social sites” yet remain isolated because none of these sites are interconnected and there are to way too many of them. Its time for a new theme in web development.
Rub says
“Yahoo did this with MyWeb a couple of years back. But I suppose now that Google is doing it, everyone is bound to love it, and say how innovative Google are.”
I couldn’t agree anymore!
Now Google Products are floating around and competing against each other. I always wished I had more capabilities on my Reader “Shared Page”, like profile details, links to others but here is a totally new product.
I am sure this is not a Google Product. I used the similar FF extension a month back (same icon) and concept. I un-installed it because my FF was crashing all the time. Now I am not able to recollect which service was that. I think Google bought that service.
Don’t ShareStuff!
What’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine.
Sharing is cute but not an adult concept. I don’t care where you browse and don’t want you to know where I go.
Grow-up People!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
Two amazing things … How can Google present a service with so many bugs, basic, even simplistic compared to all the other offers currently existing. But the most astonishing for me is cetainly the exploitation of my email contacts by the service. The service constructs its network based on the network formed by the gmail contacts. Surprising, impressive but at the same time I’m wondering if I really want to buils my network of friends based on my gmail contacts. I find that Google uses my data a little too much without telling us…
God I’m tired of sharing.
I’m tired of other people sharing also. Especially since what most people share is crap, the same shared crap as every other net-sheep or illegal crap. I feel like the ‘Net has been taken over by a bunch of puss-bags that read too many John Gray books and “feel” the need to emote via links, video and 9/11 rants.
Just stop it.
Eh, this is an interesting move by Google, but I still like Siphs.com and delicious for my email and bookmarking services, respectively. But then Google is big, so who knows what that means for the smaller kids in the class.
It took a few tries for it to work for me, but it might just be my flakey net connection:
http://www.goog...867598285658079
Nag (#8): coRank has been offering page caching for about a week already. Check the last post on the coRank blog.
Thanks RBA. Good to know, i will check it out.
Just found that even http://www.Fural.net from LookSmart provide 5 GB of space for caching.
I’m 100% agree with Steve and Frank. What;s the point? sharing links? this have being around for a couple of years now; but… why would I want to share my bookmarks? I know social stuff… is ovewhelming the web nowadays but.. I’m sure there are other productive ways to spend your time on the web.
I like it its a good memory jogger for stuff I want to bookmark and will probably forget
Is there any connection between this and Bzzster? It uses the same icon (the green square with the V-shaped nodes).
What’s next? “Social Scripting”?
Ahh, link should go to https://addons....efox/addon/3863
I wonder what Google’s next move will be. Perhaps online-pizza-delivery-services? Or, even more adventurous: search services for cell phones? After becoming one of the leading brands in the universe, funnily losing more and more momentum (innovationwise), they’re merely aggregating services. Which leaves hope for the thesis, there will be future Googles.
http://mv.aster...0Shared%20Stuff
— MV
Google is a Giant.
Does Google not realize that you can already do this with Google Reader so why not include it with that or with GMail itself. This does not deserve any more recognition than being another feature on an already established product they already have.
*yawn*
How long will it take for all of us, and particularly sites like Techcrunch, to not jump up and down everytime Google does something — particularly when it is not that creative. It gets old after awhile. If they do something creative, OK, but why not focus more on creativity and true innovation and less on anything and everything that happens at Google, Digg, and Facebook.
I think it’s fairly clear where this will be in a few months/years – the ONLY social network I’ll be interested in using. Her’es my take on it:
http://benpetro...l-piece-in.html
Whenever Google takes a dump human fanboi flies are all over it.
same old story
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
at present, I use ThinkFree space for business share application though only 500M for the most, but enough to me. As a webmaster, i care more about my web site health, is there anyboday recommend me some web site monitoring service provider ?? right now i am using YMU : http://youmonitor.us I feel it’s cool. Could you huys recommend some others or have a look at this? so i can have a comparison and make a review for all these in the future? Thanks
Cool just like AddThis.com
ok. so first shared item was ‘is this dog jerking off?’
and then I signed in, and now it says nothing shared.
I think it will OWN. But, right now it seems a little alpha. or I am stupid.
or both.
This is a significant development, make no mistake.
Several times now, I’ve leveled criticism against Google for not getting into this space sooner.
I’m pretty sure they’ve not implemented all of my ideas, but this is a start…
i don’t think it is that bad, but i think that Google is making this new service to make for every user his own profile of good stuff that he likes, Google is working on the “Custom” concept, custom search and shared stuff
even if it is implemented anywhere else, i think that it will better with Google as it is trusted by Most if not ALL the internet , so let’s give it a try
Share stuff looks interesting. Has a potential. It is a neat idea and you think why could i think of it.
This is possibly the most user-unfriendly thing I’ve ever seen Google consider.
It stinks.
I want to try this out, but for some reason I can not get anything to post to my share site via the google bookmarklet…. is anyone else having this problem?
Is it wrong to say, that I want money from Google to do that? If I get payed for that at Newsvine, I sure won’t do it for free in other places.
The internet . . . pffff, that thing is still around?
http://listento...site.com/me.php
found it on web