October 16, 2005
Social bookmarking meets comments and rating
Shadows is a new service which recently popped up on the social bookmarking scene. In addtion to the tagging of URLs, which is supported by a lot of services now, it adds the possibility to rate and discuss the quality of a web site.
Each site a user bookmars gets a so called Shadow Page. On this you find the tags given to that page, as well as discussion threads and a ranking option. You can see the Shadow Page for XyroX here. Notice the ugly screenshot of a design long gone in the top left.
Each Shadows user also gets a Shadow Page on his own (My Shadow Page). This is some kind of profile page, showing the user’s tags and bookmarks and also allows other people to rank the person the page belongs to. Shadow users can also blog to their profile page.
As far as I know this service is new, and I think it has quite some potential. You can import your browser bookmarks or del.icio.us tags for a quick start there. I think I’ll keep my eyes on this one. What they should improve on is the user interface, I had a hard time finding my way around the site at first.
October 17th, 2005 at 4:26 am
Interesting concept. I really like the fact that the Web is beginning to get organized in Tags. Services like Technorati and now Shadows are gonna make it big one day. At least that’s my gut feeling.
October 18th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Yup, I think tagging and user generated content are going to be big. Given your interest in the space, I thought you might like to check out www.blinklist.com. If you have the time to play around with it I would love to hear your thoughts. Mike