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Friday, March 04, 2005  


Simply - Social Bookmarking and Personal Search Engine

Simpy - Social Bookmarking and Personal Search Engine
http://www.simpy.com/

With Simpy, you can save, index, search and share your bookmarks. You can also find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc. Simpy indexes your bookmarks and allows you to search them. It eliminates the need to use bookmark folders (also known as categories) by using keywords to create virtual, dynamic folders on the fly. Your bookmarks are stored and backed-up on a remote server, allowing you to access and search them from anywhere (any computer, any browser, work, home, school, hotel). Using your bookmarks as a representation of your interests, you can use Simpy to find like-minded users. For instance, if you have bookmarked a lot of pages about gardening, you can find other Simpy users who like gardening. Web pages come and go (think "404 Not Found"). Bookmarks that you store inside your browser rot with time, and you have no way of finding that out. Simpy constantly crawls, checks, and re-indexes your bookmarks, allowing you to quickly see all your broken bookmarks and fix them. You can even use Simpy to dig out bookmarks that you saved a long time ago, and have since forgotten you even had. Simpy allows you to subscribe to other users. This allows you to create your own little ecosystem inside of Simpy, called Bookmark Circle. We hate vendor lock-in, so Simpy allows you to export your bookmarks at any time. You can also upload your browser's bookmarks at any time. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

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