Kaboodle: For the really “Web 2.Organized”
Nov 18th, 2006 by Milan Dinić
Far too many articles about the latest in Web 2.0 start off like this: “With Flickr, you organize photos; with Delicious, you organize links; with 43 Things, you organize goals; and with (insert name of new Web 2.0 gimmick), you organize (insert name of something you probably don’t organize well enough or may have never thought to organize)!”
It’s a cliche, but it’s got some truth behind it–from friends to shoes to books, there’s probably something on the Web that will help you put it in meticulous order. With all this focus on organization, you’d think that this next-generation Internet was trying to make Adrian Monks out of us all.
Enter Kaboodle, the newest member of the pack. It has plenty of familiar features–bookmarking, networking, tagging–but unlike many of the more niche-oriented Web 2.0 start-ups, Kaboodle claims it will help you organize, well, just about everything, provided you can find it on the Internet.
Kaboodle is, to put it simply, a graphical and more guided Delicious. Like the famously stripped-down social bookmarking site, Kaboodle allows you to aggregate a collection of links, toss them into categories, and share them with whoever might be peeking. But that’s where the two diverge. Not only does Kaboodle incorporate images, ratings and “highlights” for each link, it provides suggestions for exactly what your set of bookmarks can detail. Some of the most popular themes are shopping lists, vacation planners and wish lists.