21 September 2007

Google Shared Stuff launched

Google has launched a bookmark-sharing feature called Google Shared Stuff.

The service allows users to share links with their friends and associates across the world by completing a few simple steps.

By dragging a "share" button on to their browser toolbars, people can select sites they wish to show others.

They then have the option of emailing the links or previews of web pages to a contact, sharing them on a variety of social bookmarking sites, including Facebook, or posting them on to a Shared Stuff page.

The Shared Stuff page is publicly visible and houses a collection of all the links that a user wishes to share online.

It can also include a variety of personal information, including a photograph from users' public Picasa Web Albums.

There is also a page that lists all the popular items shared by Google users and a function to allow people to subscribe to feeds for all of these pages.

According to the Google Operating System blog, the search engine's "social side is more visible every day" with developments such as this.

Blog writer Ionut Alex Chitu added: "Overall, the service adds the social component to Google Bookmarks and integrates a lot of ways to share content online.

"It will be interesting to see if Google manages to build a community around the new service and if you can rely on it to find and disseminate what's cool on the web."

Google Bookmarks allows users to highlight their favourite websites and add notes and labels to them.

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