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Remember I mentioned my bad experience about del.icio.us. It is a social bookmarking tool and very famous recently. After this experience although it seems there is no problem on del.icio.us any more, I started to look for alternatives and found lots of Web 2.0 generation websites. Let me give you some examples:

• Simpy
• blinklist
• FURL
• reddit

Believe me there are lots of different options. Searching for a good one is not easy job. Frankly I don’t like to signup free websites. It seems to me that giving my e-mail address and other information is not a good thing. But I know it is inevitable!

When I was surfing on yahoo, I discovered Yahoo My Web 2.0. Since I am a yahoo user; I use yahoo e-mail, my yahoo, yahoo search, yahoo messenger, yahoo groups; I decided to try it. I can tell you that I really like it. I have been using my yahoo to read my RSS feeds for a while and this is another experience with yahoo. I thought after del.icio.us it seems very good tool and even is a beta version and yahoo is still developing it. Right now I have 94 saved pages with 39 tags. The most of them are can be seen by everyone. Actually one of the reasons I wanted to use a social bookmarking website is to share my links with the readers of ITC Server. So I accomplished my goal. Yahoo My Web 2.0 has a tool that is called My Web 2.0 Badge which gives an HTML code to display your most recently My Web 2.0 links on your site. I’ve got it and inserted into sidebar. Just look at right up corner of the blog; My Web 2.0 Tags cloud right over there! Click them and see my links. It is good for you and me as a reference, isn’t?

My intention is here to compare Yahoo My Web 2.0 and del.icio.us. It is interesting that I found out (Yahoo acquired del.icio.us) (del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family); so they are not competitor!

Yahoo My Web 2.0

My Web 2.0 is your home for everything you find interesting online. It allows you to find, save and share knowledge on the Web. Use My Web 2.0 to save, share and discover.

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s. Use del.icio.us to keep, share and discover.

Similarities:

• They use tags. Assign tags to a link.
• It can be seen what everyone’s tags and links.
• You can see that who bookmarked the same link as you did. You can click this user and see what other his/her tags and links.
• You can Title (description), Add Note (notes) and tags to a link.
• You can see tags as a list or cloud.
• You can edit or delete a link.
• You can search people’s tags.
• They show when the tag was saved.
• Both have API for developers.
• Both can save the links by using bookmarklet.
• Both gives ‘save to’ image link for your website or blog.
• My Web 2.0 has a My Web Badge to insert your tags a list or a cloud to your site or blog. Del.icio.us has link rolls and tag rolls for your site or blog.

Differences:

• My Web 2.0 can sort links by date saved, title and URL.
  Del.icio.us sorts links by date saved. The most recent tags can be seen first.
• My Web 2.0 can sort tag cloud by A to Z or Date or Popularity.
  Del.icio.us can show tag cloud by recent and popularity.
• My Web 2.0 shows popular tags with numbers.
  Del.icio.us does not show the numbers, but it sorts tags by their sizes.
• Del.icio.us uses tag bundles to categorize the tags.
  My Web 2.0 does not use any categorization tool for tags.
• My Web 2.0 can save a link that can be seen by me or community or everyone.
  Del.icio.us saves the link that can be seen by everyone. There is no privacy or community.
• My Web 2.0 includes My Contact’s Pages. You can invite other yahoo users to your My Web 2.0 to save and share links together.
  Del.icio.us includes “links for you” tool. People can tag items for you.
• My Web 2.0 saves a copy of a link site as cache if you want. So if even the site disappear on web, you can see what you saved.
  Del.icio.us does not include caching.
• My Web 2.0 and del.icio.us both search tags and links name, but My Web 2.0 also searches cached link site content.
• My Web 2.0 can send the link with e-mail or IM.
  Del.icio.us does not have any tool like that.
• Del.icio.us uses a inbox that is where your subscriptions are delivered. You can subscribe a user, tag, or user/tag combo. Any bookmark that fits your criteria will automatically be delivered to your inbox in chronological order.
  My Web 2.0 does not have any tool like that.
• Del.icio.us has some Firefox extensions to save the links easily.
  My Web 2.0 can use Yahoo Toolbar to save the links.
• My Web 2.0 can import bookmarks, links from RSS feeds, and favorites from del.icio.us.
  Del.icio.us does not have import option.

These are similarities and differences that I saw. I probably missed lots of others. You can also find other ideas:

• Yahoo My Web 2.0 vs. del.icio.us
• Yahoo’s Secret Blog Research Tool - MyWeb2.0

My choice is My Web 2.0. What do you think? Do you have any idea?

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