NetVouz: Bookmark You
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on October 22, 2007,
Tossing its hat into the social bookmark ring is NetVouz. NetVouz is competing with nearly one hundred already existing social bookmakring sites, including del.icio.us, Furl , Reddit and StumbleUpon. In fact, there are so many sites that offer social bookmarking services we have several articles on the topic here at Profy.
Each of these social bookmarking sites tries to set itself apart by offering a unique twist or feature. For example, Digg has made its name by combining a social bookmarking feature with a user-submitted news slant and added user rankings to the mix to keep it fresh. Fark relies on the witty comment section and “audience participation” aspect of social bookmarking to stay in the forefront. What sets NetVouz apart?
The ability to truly manage your bookmarks online using more than just tag clouds is the main feature that sets NetVouz apart. They offer tagged sorting and searching to appeal to the tag cloud junkies, and they also offer folders. This is a blessing for people like myself who are just plain sick of the messy looking tag clouds like those found on del.icio.us and Technorati. Don't get me wrong, tags are a great search tool, but I prefer the streamlined nature of folders for actually using an app like this.
I also like their interface. It's clean and fits the “web 2.0 mold” as far as having bright colors and no clutter. More important, it is functional. NetVouz is more than just a pretty face. It offers bookmark buttons, link, feed options, FireFox plugins and several other tools to make actually using their service quick and convenient while you surf the web.
After you are signed in, you can choose to import your bookmarks from any of the popular browsers or from another social bookmarking program. You can also import your bookmarks from any OPML file. If you want to import bookmarks from multiple sources, you can do that on your account home page by selecting “Import Bookmarks” from the File drop down menu.
Once your bookmarks are imported, you can sort them by tag words and folders. You can also make them public or private, and have the NetVouz platform search for any broken or duplicate bookmark links. The broken link finder was especially useful for me - I've had some of these bookmarks for years.
With an interface that should please social bookmark site users and Web 2.0 afficionados, a variety of useful tools and a workable platform, NetVouz should be a contender against the heavy hitters. So far they are also doing an excellent job fighting the spam war that comes with any social site, and their site had no drag or slow loading times for me at all. All of this may explain why eBizMBA ranked them an up and coming #14 among all the social bookmarking sites in August 2007. I think this may replace some of the other sites as my social bookmark resource of choice.
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Alasdair
Eric C
Matt
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Irel Johnson 
I’ve used del.icio.us in the past, but find netvouz to be much more useful and superior for me needs. It’s excellent and it’s a shame that it’s not used more than other bookmarking sites like del.icio.us.
I too migrated from del.icio.us to Netvouz. The clincher for me was the ability to make a bookmark private by default. I wanted a bookmark tool, not a social bookmark tool.
I really like Netvouz. Besides there is something really interesting with netvouz: Google like netvouz bookmarks!
So if you want to boost a page seo appeal i suggest you to bookmark this page in netvouz.
The broken and duplicate link checker is what made me switch to Netvouz. Once your bookmarks hit 4 digits, culling the dead ones is no longer something you want to do manually.
The reason I’m using Netvouz has everything to do with founder Henrik’s responsiveness to his user base. My bookmarks were trapped in Powermarks, a gui application, and I nagged del.icio.us in vain for years to build an importer. Henrik just went and did it. The fact that it’s everything I want from an online bookmark manager is a bonus! (I have over 7500 bookmarks dating back to the year 2000.)
I’d been scratching my head for a personal bookmark service that fitted my needs. Netvouz is great, it’s saved me the chore of sorting and sifting my broken links manually.
I agree with all the positives about Netvouz and about Henrik’s fine, thoughtful service. The one improvement I would like is the ability to bookmark in multiple folders. Sometimes, one folder doesn’t reflect the multiplicity of what a bookmarked site provides.
I think netvouz is one of the best bookmarkingsites, and a first choise for me. However, obe thing i miss, and that is the same to ALL bookmarking-services - is the ability to put tags in maps. For example, if i want to use short concepts like “book” “forums” “food” “drugs” and combine them it would be great if you coul combine drugs+forums in one map, and in another map “food+forums”. Theres no way to do that in ANY bookmarking-service right now. In delicious for example, you can make “bundles” with “food”+”forums” - but that is only a list of ALL “forums”, inkluding food AND drug - forums. I wonder why no bookmarking-services can offer this??
Mei -
Netvouz *can* do that, if I understand what you mean by “maps” correctly. When you’re viewing bookmarks for a tag, there is a list of other tags on the right; click the plus sign next to the second tag you want and you’ll get a list of bookmarks with both those tags.
Hi..
I use your site with a friend for create a sort of project. Of course we are in different locations. All favorites that we are found in the construction of our project we put in this site, but, we miss a type of notepad in the head of each folder, for exchange information between us. Is it possible insert this item in your future release?
Thanks.. Peter
I also changed to netvouz from del.icio.us. I loved the later, but when some bugs started to pop-up, mainly the batch rename tag function, my patience ended. Netvouz folders functionality is similar to del.icio.us’ bundles and works just the same, but I think with one plus: the users can create private folders. Everything you move to them, becomes automatically private. Very useful. And you can mimic the batch rename function from delicious too. First select all the items with the same tag, apply the new tag, select all of them again, delete the old tag. Takes 2 steps more than delicious, but I prefer a tool that just works than another which don’t. I wonder when people will start to use netvouz en masse. It deserves a more lot of attention than it’s getting until now.
I too migrated from del.icio.us to Netvouz.
Most Important Feature of Netvouz is FOLDERS, DAM tags are Messy and as time passes by they are hard to manage
Also there is Public/Private options
and last but not the least its interface is simple n easy not creapy…
Netvouz just works.
I think I’ve used Netvouz for more than a year now. Before I found it I tried several similar sites including delicios, simpy, blinklist, jots etc. but even though they all have their advantages, none of them beats Netvouz when it comes to managing by bookmarks online, which is what I want to do. Netvouz may lack some of the social features found on other sites, but instead it adds stuff not found elsewhere. The link checker is particularly useful and allows me to keep my links up to date. That feature alone is reason enough to switch to Netvouz. I also agree with the above post and I prefer folders to manage my bookmarks, and Netvouz does that better than anything else I have seen, and in a web 2.0 style.
Netvouz rocks!!
I stumbled upon netvouz after searching for an effective tool to store my bookmarks online. I just love it. The best thing I liked is, it created the folders/sub-folders and the whole folder tree. Many of the other tools I tried did not have this ability.
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timepiece; (sorry for my english hope you understand)
what I mean with maps, is “auto”-folders that is created from rules with tag combinations, some kind of “facets” I think,
what I miss in all social bookmarking-services - is the option to create folders that automatically list bookmarks with tagcombinations of your choose.
for example, I create a folder named “educational forums” and it should list all bookmarks tagged by : forum AND (school OR education)
Another example create another folder named “Cute little animal forums” contents there are : forum AND (animal OR pet OR pig OR dog OR bird) - it list bookmarks with BOTH tags forum and animal or forum and pet etc. but it doesnt list bookmarks tagged forum AND kidney or forum and education.
in netvouz you have to put the links in the folder manually, and tags is not at all related to folders
Also in delicious the bundles is just “containers” with ALL tagged bookmarks
example: a “bundle” with tags : school + forum , list the same forums as a bundle with pigs + forum
does anyone know why no one offer this kind of “facets” in a bookmarking-service?
Hello,
Thanks for all the positive feedback on Netvouz!
Just a quick response to Mei’s question about auto-folders, maps etc. The exact feature you describe has been discussed and is in our plan, but when it will be delivered remains to be seen.
//Henrik Sjostrand
Netvouz development