Looks like Microsoft is going to launch a social bookmark service that is very similar to delicious in the next few weeks. From what I have gathered it is going to operate very similarly to delicious but will have some features and similarities to other popular social bookmarking services as well.
I am an avid user of delicious (click here to see my delicious account) and have been for a while now, I absolutely love the concept of social bookmarking. I have accounts on Digg, Magnolia, and a few other places around the net but I keep coming back to Delicious to tag my links out. I am probably one of only a few power-users out there that really likes the new delicious interface too. Since no one else in our organization uses social bookmarking I am more or less a standalone user, although I hope one day I can get my partners turned onto this cool concept and actually utilize the social aspect.
Hopefully Microsoft can pull another rabbit out of their hat with this service offering kind of like they did with Windows Live Writer. It’s going to be cool to see how this is embraced. I am not completely sure how they are going to roll out the service but I do know that it will be release first in their MSDN and Expression communities.
Also, in what little bit of information I have gathered anyone who already uses a service like delicious will have the ability to import their existing links and tags into the new solution, that should be pretty nice. Here is a preview to the beta of the service, Social Bookmarks – Preview.
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