Captain Squid » yahoo http://www.captainsquid.com The Best Squidoo Blog Ever! Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:24:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Yahoo Launches New Bookmarking Site to Compete with Self http://www.captainsquid.com/yahoo-launches-new-bookmarking-site-to-compete-with-self/ http://www.captainsquid.com/yahoo-launches-new-bookmarking-site-to-compete-with-self/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:58:33 +0000 Captain Squid http://www.captainsquid.com/yahoo-launches-new-bookmarking-site-to-compete-with-self As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.

As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.

Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought I’d check it out. It turns out that Yahoo bookmarks has been around for some time, but in beta for the last year..

I installed the bookmarklet and hopped over to a few quick sites. The bookmarklet was very fast and I was able to bookmark and tag a page in probably under 8 seconds. (like bull-riding but backwards)

yahoo bookmarks bookmarklet screenshot

The interface as a whole has a lot of Ajax and seems to run a lot faster than del.icio.us

Why does it look like it’s hardly being used?

Is this a stealth Beta of some kind? They just released Yahoo Buzz yesterday, how many more products are up their sleeve ?

Why not remodel your existing Del.icio.us franchise instead of starting over with a new bookmarking platform?

What are your first impressions of Yahoo! Bookmarks?

Does anyone know why the exposure of this site is so small? Or have I been living in a cave or something?

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