Blue Dot is a prospective newcomer of social bookmarking systems. I knew it, try it and have been assured that it brings new experiences to our everyday life.
Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system. It has some features others don't have.
Easy to set up
Blue Dot provides not only a bookmarklet and IE toolbar that helps users to clip the resources on the Web quickly, but also easily understanbable presentation how to install the helper tools into their browsers.
Cool posting interface
Of cource like most competitors, Blue Dot also supports to post an entry by helper tools, but it differs considerably from others. Firing the bookmark on an entry you want to clip, a cool form appears. And you can add a note on it, rate it, tag it, set an image extracted from it as a representative. The process ends up without moving to other page, so you can post very quickly.
Access control by friendship
Blue Dot enbales you to control the access for every posts by your friendship.
A Dot for "Me" is exactly as it sounds - for your eyes only. If you mark a Dot to be shared with "Me", it will only be visible to you while you are logged into your account. A Dot for "Friends" can be viewed by anyone in your Friend List. A Dot for "Everyone" is available publicly.
Source: Blue Dot: Frequently Asked Questions
Auto-clipping your blog
Blue Dot has a feature that it observes your blog for new posts, and clips them automatically. Your friends can make a comment on them at Dots. It feature currently supports only Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace and WordPress. I hope that it supports more blogs before too long.
I think Blue Dot still have much to be improved: more comfortable user interfaces, feeds of "Friends' Dots" and all like that, liquid designing for various environments, and so on. Anyhow, I'll watch its development for fun.
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