Like a bolt from the blue Yahoo has bought up the social bookmarking site, Del.icio.us. Much like the Flickr acquisition back in March, Yahoo has snapped up another emerging site and technology that has redefined the way we surf. Del.icio.us is the number 1 social bookmarking site with a community thought to be around 300,000 and growing.
With the dust yet to settle with the announcement of GoogleBase, Microsoft has at least been a little more honest with its crack at the classified / small ads market place. Earlier this month a thinly based attempt at Craigslist was launched called Base;
“Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online …….. may be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle, Google Base and Google Local.”
Flickr isn’t the first attempt at capturing the hearts of the amateur photographer in all of us, but it’scertainly the most successful. Started 2002, Yahoo’s acquisition of Flickr in March this year signified the importance of convenient storage and the ability to quickly publish you photo’s to whatever medium required.
Recently I stumbled onto Reddit and I am becoming quite a fan.
After using Digg, the social bookmarking site, for at least the last six months (the redesign and improved feature set has made it much more accessible IMHO), Slashdot has really got some work to do to keep at the fore front technology on the web. While Diggs stories are not always up to the editorial standard of Slashdot you can’t help but enthuse with the rare gems that appear probably on a daily bases.
Ok, so I’m a believer! If you’d have told me about podcasting 5 yearsago or tried to convince me that I would be a massive fan just 12 months ago, I’d have probably laughed in your face. Lets face it,Podcasting to the uninitiated is nothing more than amateur radio. Even now, and I listen to probably close on 8 -10 shows a week, if I try and explain it to someone they look at me like I am some closet geek with a homemade radio transmitter in my loft!
“Its like radio shows that you can download and listen to at your own convenience. They can be made by you and I, for a relatively little amount of money, yet some of the traditional broadcasters have caught on now as well. With subject matters as diverse as web design to film and music to gardening.”
