Googlified

Google quietly launched Shared Stuff, a service that allows users to share interesting web page with their friends through the users’ “Shared Stuff” page, 3rd party bookmarking sites like Reddit and Furl, or by email.

You can start using Shared Stuff by dragging this bookmarklet onto your browser’s bookmarks bar (though it’s not required) and click on the bookmarklet whenever you want to bookmark a page.

By default the pages should be bookmarked to the “My Shared Stuff page”, which is publicly visible, but you can also send the links to your friends by email or bookmark it to other bookmarking or link sharing sites as mentioned above.

You can find the most popular shared links on this page (though they maybe NOT popular); pages from a specific domain; or pages of a specific tag. Also, when log-in, you can see your contacts’ shared links here. Most of these pages are RSS-enabled, meaning that you can subscribe to the popular links and/or your friends’ shared links with a feed reader.

This is kinda like Google Bookmark mashes with Google Reader’s sharing feature and for some reason it tells me that its not going to be a hit without some improvements (e.g. a browser plugin instead of bookmarklet, etc.)

[share-icon by Alex King, used under a CC-license]