2 or 3 years ago my favorite method for keeping track of information on the Internet was a product called Onfolio. Onfolio was a combination Windows application/browser addin that allowed me to capture, tag, organize and search various type of content from the web. I really liked Onfolio, used it every day. Onfolio got bought up by MS a few years back, and the Onfolio tool sort of got merged into the Windows Live Toolbar, but really mostly just seems to have died.
I saw an article on Download Squad today for a new piece of software that reminded me of Onfolio very much.
Eluma is a combination RSS reader and bookmark manager. It looks quite interesting. The software seems to be taking advantage of many of the common social computing tools of the day, RSS and tags etc. It also makes use of folders, and smart searches. They have some publishing capabilities to allow you to share collections of information with people.
The software is in private beta for now. I am hopeful to get a chance to take a look at the beta pretty soon. You can get a quick overview of the tool from the following You Tube video.
I will report back if I get into the beta and get a chance to take a look.
P.S. The video ends with a rather retro product theme song. I am not sure about the song.
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Hi Sean,
You are absolutely right. What we have is alot like Onfolio was for helping you keep all your web stuff organized, PLUS social features for sharing collections, or discovering public collections, PLUS the ability to add your comments and ratings (etc.) to public collections to create the community effect.
For those who want to keep everything private, they can. For those who want to share some of their stuff with specific people or groups (or with everyone), they can do that too.
As a desktop app (vs. a web app) we can do alot of cool things in terms of usability, performance, offline access, etc.
It’s alot like iTunes for all your web stuff.
Please check it out. Here’s a link to private beta that can be used 20 times. So for you and 19 (lucky) readers, you can download it and use it. Please let us know what you think, and any suggestions for improving it!
http://aardwolf.eluma.com/~content/invitations/retrieve.php?guid=47e11e7d47c07
Thanks!
Joe Lichtenberg
http://www.eluma.com