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Diigo acquires Furl
Source: teckline.wordpress.com

This blogpost is about the social bookmarking service Diigo.com taking over the social bookmarking service Furl.com from the internet media company Looksmart.com.You can transfer your Furl data into Diigo.

How to Recover Your Magnolia Bookmarks with FriendFeed and Import Them Into Delicious

Last week the online bookmarking website Magnolia suffered a catastrophic problem and may have lost everyone's bookmarks. This week they are coming out with several ways to possibly recover some of your bookmarks.

Magnolia still down, but not out
Source: CNET.com

Social bookmarking site Magnolia, which suffered an extensive data loss last week, has posted a new update that says attempts at restoring user data have been unsuccessful.

Delicious Has A Brand New Audio Player For MP3 Bookmarks
Source: TechCrunch

Social bookmarking pioneer Delicious (they recently turned five years old) pushed out a couple of updates to its Internet Explorer and Firefox add-ons yesterday, fixing a couple of bugs and adding some features.

Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here
Source: Delicious/tags/Cookie411

Over the past few days we've been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs.

Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms
Source: TechCrunch

Earlier today, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote a post expressing concern that Web startups tend to languish after they are bought by big companies.

Blogging's Good For Your Health
Source: Discovery.com

March 3, 2008 -- Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new research has found.

Breakthrough Moments in Social Media: What Mattered Most to You?

Where were you when "Star Wars Kid" first strutted across your screen with his perfect Jedi moves? What did you think when Newsvine broke the VMI story? What blog post changed history forever? Share your favorite moments in social media history!

Del.icio.us Bans Search Engine Spiders

My friend, Colin Cochrane, was doing average goofing around on the internet when he discovered something strange. Forgetting that he had his User-Agent set to "Googlebot," due to recent troubleshooting, he was surprised when he tried to find a bookmark in his del.icio.us account.

Curv Entertainment Group's Interactive Division Launches Financial Social Bookmarking Site Globalmarketwire.com
Source: Yahoo! Finance

Curv Entertainment Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CEGO), through its newly established internet division, Curv Interactive, announced today the launching of its first web property called Globalmarketwire.com

MarcadorSocial: Herramienta Mega Rapida Para Automatizar Tu Social Bookmarking
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Nace MarcadorSocial.com, una herramienta GRATUITA para agilizar el envio de tus marcas sociales a todos los servicios de social bookmarking.

Microsoft launches Listas
Source: listas.labs.live.com

Listas is a social bookmarking service similar to del.icio.us, which lets you bookmark your favorite sites and have access to their bookmarks from anywhere, no matter what computer you're on.

Easy Link Manager Training Day 1 - Creating Pretty Links for Fun and Profit
Source:

What compels a web surfer or a person reading their email, to click a link? Can a link BE ugly or pretty?

Ft. Hard Knox » FHK SitRep 10.07.07: Propeller
Source: FHK

FHK has been receiving a lot of traffic lately from Propeller, f.k.a. "Netscape." According to its "about" page, "Propeller.com is a service of Weblogs, Inc. and part of the AOL Network owned and operated by AOL, LLC, a Time-Warner company."

Ft. Hard Knox » Poll: How do you feel about Digg.com?
Source: FHK

Some people love Digg.com and others hate it. Where do you stand on Digg.com?

Google Wants You To Share Stuff
Source: TechCrunch

Google has entered the social bookmarking market with a new product called Shared Stuff.

Public health department uses Facebook to trace woman exposed to rabid bat
Source: Yahoo! News

Toronto Public Health officials have put the online social network to what may be a new use - locating a woman who needed rabies shots because she had handled a rabid bat.

Google launches bookmark-sharing feature
Source: CNET News.com

Google is sneaky. It has quietly launched a new service that lets people share bookmarks. It is called Google Shared Stuff.

Newsvine: Hotbed of Citizen Journalism or just one more social bookmarking site?

Newsvine is one of my favourite sites and I have learned a great deal from it, but you have to question whether it achieves its goal of providing a breeding ground for Citizen Journalism or will ever get close to it.

DEL.ICIO.US TOOLBOX: 180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources
Source: Mashable!

Social bookmarking was one of the earliest trends out on the social web, and del.icio.us quickly took the lead. Today, we outline over 180 of the best tools and resources to get the most out of the number one social bookmarking site.

Social Bookmark Iconset
Source: vikiworks.com

A collection of stylized icons for social bookmarking sites, including newsvine! Tired of boring graphics for your social bookmarklets? Try these. You can find another iconset here.

BBC Adds Buttons for Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon but snubs Newsvine
Source: techsoar.com

... obviously the lack of a Newsvine button on the BBC is a let down for the company, which remains smaller than the others. It's indicative of the "winner takes all" nature of social bookmarking sites.

66 Non-English Social Bookmarking sites
Source: Backtags.com

A summary of non English social bookmarking sites from around the world.

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