New Del.icio.us Competitor BlogMarks.net
![Homepage of the web application BlogMarks.net, a social bookmarking service where users can save bookmarks for public or private viewing. The screenshot contains this text: BlogMarks.net - Enlarge your bookmarks - Public Marks - Blog. Last Public Marks: Essential Fonts for Designers - 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have by fox_b and 48 others; NASA Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier by Delicious Popular; Jon Udell: It's Not About Old Media Vs. the Pajamahideen by Delicious Popular [media]; Action Squad: Minneapolis Urban Adventurers by Delicious Popular; Tips for Getting Good Customer Support - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) by Delicious Popular [tips]. There is also a tag cloud with these tags in the largest sizes: blog, CSS, design, Flash, Del.icio.us, Firefox, Flickr, Google, HTML, Javascript, Linux](https://rssweblog.com/media/blogmarks-net-social-bookmarking-service.png)
The new social bookmarking site BlogMarks.net has been launched as some competition to Del.icio.us, though I'm tempted to just call it a knockoff.
You can save your bookmarks publicly or privately. There's a Last Public Marks page showing the most recent ones, the user who bookmarked them and how many others had saved it previously. Each bookmark can be tagged, which makes it possible to display a tag cloud sized to reflect their popularity in the site's database.
The site has an API that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol to manage bookmarks. Since that protocol is not yet finalized there may be changes to the API calls.
BlogMarks.net was begun in September 2003 by French programmers Benoît Fleury (Benfle) and François Hodierne (Znarf) as an Atom-powered wiki engine, switching four months later to linkblogging. We'll see if it has staying power.
