Kaboodle Enters Crowded Social Bookmarking Marketplace
A Reuters news story says Kaboodle has entered the crowded collection of websites offering bookmark tagging and sharing.
Kaboodle (http://www.kaboodle.com/) -- short for "whole kit and caboodle", a collection of lots of objects -- allows users to create Web pages to manage personal research, do comparison shopping, make wish lists or plan travel.One of the unique features of Kaboodle is that it allows users to create web pages of multiple bookmarks and then share these with others. An example is this Christmas Presents for Me page that someone created.
"The process is pretty clunky of trying to look at a whole bunch of information by going from site to site," said Manish Chandra, Kaboodle's founder and CEO. "Each Kaboodle page represents a custom search result you have created," he said.
Kaboodle joins a host of rivals in an area known variously as collaborative search, social tagging or social bookmarking, where people point out interesting sites and help put the information found on them into meaningful categories.
The shared search craze recently reached a pinnacle on Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), a site that has struck a chord with users keen to know where others are surfing on the Web. Other examples include diversified Internet companies such as Yahoo, with its MyWeb service, MyJeeves from IAC's AskJeeves and newer players such as Wink and JetEye.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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