Tele-Enabler

BlinkList

Yet another bookmarking site. It seems to have a usual set of functions, so let’s just have a Web 2.0 look at it:

• Structured MicroContent -  YES: a bookmark consists of title, description, url, tag. And one can set some access control and a rating (0 or 1). The user can edit and delete a bookmark;
• Data Outside - NO. I can import form a browser, but not from other bookmark services;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - NO. I can only create a feed for my bookmarks and for tags;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO, not really. I can not export to any bookmark client, such as a browser. Only to RSS-clients;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• LC Structure - NO;

This gives it a rating of 1/10. Not very good.

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; service; blinklist;

Del.icio.us

This Service Provider combines various services into an intermediairy service. It services publishers and viewers.

The basic services is an Enabling one: it allows users to publish their bookmarks on the Internet. A bookmark consists of a title, a url, a description and a set of tags. The bookmarks are published to the entire internet under a license set by the publisher. A viewer can thus see what an individual publisher publishes.

The service aggregates the bookmarks that it is publishing and offers various services to view the bookmarks of the entire community. A free and guided search function are offered. The free search function allows to search through the tag-field of a bookmark. A user can also define a subscription on one or more tags. The predefined search function includes: the latest published bookmarks, the most active tags, todays most popular bookmarks, todays most popular tags, related tags, bookmarks per author. One can subscribe to feeds of all these predefined queries.

Web 2.0 analysis:

• Structured MicroContent - YES, bookmarks. A permalink is however lacking;
• Data Outside - NO, there is no service to either import or subscribe to bookmark feeds. This would be useful;
• Licenses - YES, the user can set under which Creative Commons License his bookmarks are published;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are a lot of feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - YES, there are several interfaces availablef;
• Desktop Integration - YES, for MacOS-X there is a client that uses the Web API’s;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO, the service does not integrate with other services;
• Wild MicroContent - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; tele-service; enabling; publishing;

Reger.com

This service allows the user to publish his structured content in the form of a blog. The most interesting thing is that this service allows the user to define any structured MicroContent type and start publishing it. The service has predefined a large set of MicroContent types to get the user started.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, any MicroContent type is possible;
• Data Outside - YES, there should be some import options for data. It already has a the possibility to import the definition of MicroContent types through a XSD-file (it gets a YES thanks to this feature);
• Licenses - NO, did not see it;
• Feeds Galore - YES, any blog can be read as feed as well. It allows to publish any feed as RSS in Structured Blogging format;
• Web API’s - NO, not that I am aware of;
• Desktop Integration - NO, only the standard RSS blogs can be read by a standard News-reader;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• Wild Structure - YES, the user can define a structure he wants;
• Cross Platform - NO;

tags: microcontent; wild; service; reger.com;