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Impression:I'm not sure why I'd sign up. It says something about bookmarking, but like most people I already have a bunch of bookmarks in my web browser and wouldn't want them in two different places. Does it integrate the two?

Or is it another sharing stuff with people site? If so how does it differ from facebook, twitter, reddit, stumbleupon, delicious, digg, mixx, technorati, etc.?

I don't know what it's new big feature or innovation is. Or how it's different at all. Explicitly tell me what your new big innovation and feature is. Or if there is no distinguishing feature (which is fine), at least tell me "we are different than other sites because we are NEW, BETTER, and AWESOME"

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True... there are a ton of sites which do almost exactly the same things. But in a non-saturated market there's always room for a usurper with some kind of hook. Be it better usability, just a more stylish interface, or simply better marketing. So I'd say its got a chance. Saying that, the service is far too invasive for me, or probably most other people on here. We already have enough goddam firefox extensions etc., and already know 1m places to get buzz and social-driven recomendations. But pitch this at the n00b-level, and pitch it well, and it could be a winner imo.

One of our ideas that we are thinking of is 'work networks' - very much like Yammer. We aim to position ourselves, in the next couple of months or so, as a Yammer for bookmarking.

We will still offer the same 'personal service' for our users but we will also go down this other route. Like Yammer people will be able to create and then join a private work network. You will be able to bookmark work links and documents as part of your work network and build up your Favilous work page. You can share these with other people from your network and your network is private - you cannot see out and other's cannot see in.

Would this feature be of use do you think? As I say we are a couple of months away but I know I would use it and find it useful so I am hoping others may feel the same way!

Any feedback on this would be most welcome...

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