Update: I really like the way Microcontent Musings breaks down web services into core web 2.0 functions. While it can be a little harsh, it’s also a nice “to do” list for new companies. BlinkList is only a month old…my bet is that in another month or so they will do significantly better than 1/10. Company: BlinkList (a MindValley company) Launched: June 2005. Major feature release July 25, 2005 Location: Office in San Jose, CA: Mike Reining (Director) MindValley LC 236 W. Rincon Ave #B Campbell, California, 95008 USA Tel: (650) 387 0920 Office in Kuala Lumpur: Vishen Lakhiani (Director) MindValley LC Fabrikus Building No.1, Jln 8-91, Taman Shamelin Perkasa, Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: (+603) 9283 6054 What is it? BlinkList is a social bookmarking service built on ajax. It is very buttoned up and has some excellent features. It also has an all-star team with deep experience, led by their PR star (see team below) . We’ve profiled a number of competing services lately – see Shadows, del.icio.us, Simpy, Furl, Yahoo My Web 2.0 and others. Blinklist includes most of the features from those sites, and adds a couple of others. Key Features: – easy bookmarking, including a bookmarklet if you want to have one-click bookmarks – adding “stars” to tags and bookmarks to easily find them in the future – Blinklist will take any highlighted text on the screen and auto fill a description field with the text (this is the only service I know of that does this, and it’s incredibly useful) – bookmarks can be private or public. You can email bookmarks to friends at the time of making them, which is also a very useful feature. TechCrunch bookmarks are here. – permanent tag pages – see for example www.blinklist.com/tag/web2.0/ (a nested/filtered search function on general tag search would be an awesome addition – Shadows has a “narrow results” option that is very useful) – a tag cloud for each user, as well as the entire blinklist community – “related tags” for currently viewed tags – “auto-complete” suggestions when tagging a bookmark – RSS for all pages – easy signup see the demo here to see some of these features being used. Overall, BlinkList is a worthy addition to the ranks of social bookmarking services, and one of our favorites. It doesn’t have the user base of del.cio.us, or all of the functionality of → Read More