LinkDoozer, an online bookmarking startup, offers a way for users to easily add and save bookmarks in a startpage-like approach. Unlike typical social bookmarking sites that look for users to add as many bookmarks as possible LinkDoozer focuses on users adding only the sites they like the best and encourages users to rate and review site. With social networking aspects LinkDoozer lends itself to easy link sharing similar to other social bookmarking site.
According to LinkDoozer founder Dave Mercer:
"The site was initially begun as a “better” method of exploring the Web. ... With LinkDoozer, only those sites that people consider to be part of their favorites are more prominent."
Isn't that the idea of Web 2.0? Maybe I am missing something with reviewing this site. LinkDoozer also encourage people to rate and review their links to further help the community at large make choices about what they want their internet to look like. Though LinkDoozer offered a unique approach I was not too impressed with LinkDoozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Pardon all the z's but that was me falling asleep reviewing LinkDoozer. Maybe it is was the blow out World Series game one I was watching or maybe it was the comforting pasta dinner I ate, whatever it was I fell asleep looking at LinkDoozer. It offers another way to save your favorite links and explore what other users are saving as bookmarks and I guess I am missing the what is so much "better" about LinkDoozer's approach to bookmarks but maybe I am missing something.
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Hi Frank,
Thanks for taking the time to review LinkDoozer.
In a sense, your review is actually spot on. LinkDoozer is not meant to be a hugely exciting adventure. By design it is simple and straightforward - we don't show any advertising, we don't make money from "exciting offers" or spam and so on. The idea being that people should at least have their LinkDoozer homepage as a haven from all these things.
Your LinkDoozer homepage is meant to be your starting point for visiting all the other sites you find exciting. We don't want to compete with YouTube -if you like them, add it to your homepage. Similarly with FaceBook or delicious - since all your favorites can be viewed in their own LinkDoozer AJAX browser at the click of a button (their name actually) it helps to have them presented like this.
We aimed for precisely the type of site that better facilitates your browsing in an unobtrusive manner (Kind of like guitarists in the 40's - if you didn't notice they were there, they were doing their job). Set it as your homepage , import your favorites, and browse them directly from the screen - that's it.
We added the social network (again, fairly unobtrusively) so that people can directly view the public folders of other community members with similar tastes as well as find reviews and share notes. This will hopefully help them to decide more efficiently one which sites are the best for them, but fundamentally we hope that they stick to maintaining only those sites they visit on a daily or at least regular basis (although there are no limitations)
In other words, this is less a bookmarking site and more of a quietly useful homepage with social bookmarking facilities.
I don't know if that changes your perspective at all, and I hope I have correctly outlined some of the ideas behind the site.
Do use LinkDoozer as your homepage for a little while - I hope you find that it does its job quite nicely.
All the best,
David
Posted by: Dave | Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 04:24 AM