Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system - July06 techcrunch.com:
-Images from the pages you bookmark are autopopulated in Blue Dot. Part of your pop up box for tagging is a field to click through images from the page until you find one you want to select for inclusion in your archive. ok that's cool. I’ve seen a few other systems do this, but not many. It is smooth and makes for a great user experience compared to the text-dense look of most social bookmarking services. *but* I very much like text-dense.

-Other social bookmarking services let you mark items as either public or private. Blue Dot allows you to create groups and only share certain items with members of those groups. This ability to set different access settings to different groups is substantially more sophisticated than most consumer facing online social bookmarking services. ... Public/private social bookmarking is so much cruder than the ability to create as many different groups as you wish to share bookmarks with.Many of these features may be found in other contexts, but in the social bookmarking space I think this is pioneering.

Social bookmarking + social networking ...comments, IM on the way, nice widget can put on myspace eh. for me. the design seems well-done though.
A thing that bothers me about Blue Dot is that they put a trademark on the phrase Social Discovery! with the exclamation point? no, that's yours right. The company says they did that because they don’t want to be branded as a social bookmarking service and they hope to be a pioneer in this new space. I don’t buy it; I think that’s just obnoxious and they should drop it.

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-perhaps an argument can be made that with the strong team and some nice features, Blue Dot is positioned to be the “myspace of social bookmarking” (i.e. myspace dominates the social network field now even though friendster was the first)
-capital is cheap and plentiful today. As much as VCs like to pretend that they are on the lookout for the next big thing. The truth is that only a select few have the ability to spot it. Once the lead dog has found something that works, everyone else piles into the space, flooding it with money. Their hope is to find variations that will also work. Flavor of the year is Web-2.0ish-Myspaceish-Social-Photo-Sharing-Blog-SMS-RSS sites.
-As a del.icio.us user, I want to be able to do two things particularly well: 1) easily save links to sites in a fashion i can find them later very quickly, 2) search the collective intelligence of everyone else’s bookmarks. Del.icio.us + firefox extensions help me accomplish this in a very KISS manner.
- I am an employee of Blue Dot. Eric Franklin I spent 6.5 years at Amazon.com prior to joining Blue Dot and I can tell you I’ve never worked with a smarter, more engaging bunch of people than this group here. I want to remind everyone that MySpace wasn’t groundbreaking in terms of features when they launched either. They had not one single feature that you could not find on other sites at the time. What they had was a way of bringing a suite of features to a market that had not seen them before. They crossed into the mainstream because their site was somehow more accessible to the masses. Similarly, we’re NOT trying to build the next bookmark manager. We’re NOT trying to be the next aggregated new site. Right now, what we care about is making sure that you and your friends have a fun and interactive time sharing things online and we expect to keep getting better at it. When we look around, we do feel that that stance, for better or worse, IS somewhat unique in the space.
-I like reading about all these services, but fortunately I don’t have to try them all. Nobody beats del.icio.us’s push feature for syndicating. Every day it posts my links to my weblog, and my readers love it (many have told me so). It’s better than a widget because it stores an archive right there in my blog. huh.