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Microsoft Set to Launch Social Bookmarking Service Next MonthAugust 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pmSource:Mashable! Tonight is the first ever Mashable Monthly SF with Pete Cashmore and the Mashers, the blogger lounge and San Francisco’s tech crowd. Are you like me and can’t make the event? No problem. Check out the live stream from our video partner Stickam. They’re conducting interviews throughout the night and reporting on the happenings at the event. Mashable Monthly Sponsors: ‘Momentum Design Lab is a premier full-service user experience design firm that specializes in effective user interface design for a wide range of platforms: enterprise applications, Saas, social networks and online communities.’ ‘Kazowie creates a unique social shopping experience. Users can easily create personalized gift registries, wishlists, buyer’s guides, and polls and share them with friends, family and like-minded people.’ —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Qik Mobile Live Streaming Straight to Mashable Events PagesSwarmcast Moves Into Live StreamingMadonna Concert Live on MSNMashable Monthly San FranciscoAnnouncing Mashable’s Monthly San Francisco (Call for Sponsors)Mashable’s WordCamp Man-CrushWindows Live Spaces Takes on Evite
Microsoft is ready to dive into the social bookmarking arena. After previewing a version of its own Delicious competitor back in May, the company is now set to launch Microsoft Social Bookmarks next month, an effort that will initially focus on techies by offering versions of the site on MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. The site has been in testing with what evangelist John Martin calls “thousands of technical professionals,” and the results so far speak for themselves, as the popular tags on Social Bookmarks include topics like .net, SQL, and visual basic. In preparation for the official launch, the site is adding a few features, like the ability to subscribe to tags via RSS, import your bookmarks from other services, and a widget so bloggers can offer their readers a way to bookmark articles to Microsoft Social Bookmarks. These build on top of very basic existing bookmarking features that include a browser bookmarklet that saves web pages to your account. While none of these features make Microsoft’s product stand out from the competition, it could potentially have appeal to certain Digg, Delicious, and Reddit users who yearn for the days when those sites featured almost exclusively tech news and links. And by rolling it out to users of Microsoft’s popular tech sites first, they are likely to be able to seed the site with the type of content that developers crave. A preview of the site is available here. —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Microsoft Jumping Into Social BookmarkingFungow - Social Bookmarking RebootedLookLater - Instant Searchable BookmarksHYPERiGo Offers Inefficient (and Non-Social) Bookmarking SiteMultiply to Announce Social Bookmarking ToolJigJak Doesn’t Do JackMicrosoft’s Financial MySpace
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