Make bookmarking a shared experience with BookmarkG

BookmarkG is a new bookmarking service that aims to fill the gap left by mainstream bookmarking utilities by focusing on groups. Users can create their own group, invite friends, and begin adding links with tags, ratings, and metadata that can be searched.

What makes the product interesting is that you can set the invites to be open, so once people are invited they can invite friends of their own--similar to Google's invite system in Docs and Spreadsheets.

Where I think BookmarkG is going to run into trouble is in ease of use. To me the most important aspect of any modern day bookmarking site is the browser integration, and BookmarkG has none of it. You can't import existing bookmarks, and there's no extension or bookmarklet to let you add bookmarks on the fly. You'll have to remember to go back to BookmarkG from whatever site you're on, then copy and paste in its information manually. Compare that to something like Delicious, where it can pull in related user tags and images and it looks like old hat.

[llorban]

Indeed, a great idea, but poor implementation

[alf_bookmarkg]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for reviewing our website.

Not having a bookmarklet now was a deliberate decision by us but we may have one later.

Delicious is a great site but the thing is people i know just do not want
to use it as they find it confusing, the same people do not understand what
a bookmarklet is or simple do not want to instal something on their browser.
For those reasons we did not include a bookmarklet (for now) and
decided to concentrate on our user interface. So far they have found our
site extremely useful and easy to use. I hope others give it a try and think the same.

Once again josh thanks for your review

Alf