Spurl.net

The Service Provider Spurl.net offers a combination of multiple services.

The basis is a bookmarking service. This service allows publishers to enter bookmarks and publish them to the world.

The other service offers viewers the ability to browse and search the aggregated bookmarks.

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; service; spurl;

Flickr

Flickr is a Service Provider with two types of users: publishers and viewers.

A publisher can upload and publish his images on Flickr. With each image there is a variety of fields that can be filled: title, description and tags. Most interestingly is that one can create hotspots in the image with comments. This can be used to describe who is who on the image.

Viewers can search for images based on the most popular tags, groups or people or interestingness. Some free search options are available as well.

• Structured MicroContent - YES, images;
• Data Outside - NO;
• Licenses - NO;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are a lot of feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - YES, there are several API’s;
• Desktop Integration - YES, I use an extension to iPhoto to upload images;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO;
• lc Structure - NO;

tags: microcontent; service; flickr;

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;

Weblogs.com

This service allows users to check whether a weblog has changed. This service is the backbone of the blogosphere.

The service receive pings from blog author CMS’s, which indicate that their weblog underwent a change.

Weblogs, Inc.

This service provider offers various blogs on specific topics.