Fuse is a new Web2.0 bookmarking utility that combines simplicity and utility in an elegant way. A fuse is a collection of bookmarks/links on a particular topic; unlike personal bookmarking services (like Delicious, StumbleUpon) it is built up by a community of people rather than an individual. The website called Httpfuse (thats a confusing name!) contains collection of such fuses on a wide variety of topics. It claims to have 2.6 million fuses and 4.6 million links as on date (if these are user generated, then it is a mind-boggling figure).
Build by a Hyderabad based company, Httpfuse is conceptualisd as a knowledge resource like Wikipedia but with a twist- people can discover quality links/bookmarks instead of writeups/articles . Check out this blogpost about how Fuse is different from search engines, Delcious, Digg, Mohalo, StumbleUpon etc.
The fuses are embeddable which makes the idea even more powerful… check out the one below about the iPhone.
I think this is a super idea- it is simple, clearly serves a purpose, and adds a new dimension hitherto not available. I do not recall seeing this functionality in any of the hundreds of social bookmarking sites that exist on the web. The company believes that their utility is useful in a variety of situations. A Fuse can be plugged into any community- a social networking community or a blogging community. It can be used in enterprise wikis and on company websites (in the product FAQs & help sections). This makes so much sense since you can create different sections within the fuse and bunch like urls together.
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Hi Amit,
2.6 million fuses(or topics) and few links that we have are not generated by user but it is a setup data which we have brought from various sources.This we have done to get the involvment of the user with the webapplication quiclky.
Rama, it’s definitely something really cool.
I’m sure you got your data from reliable sources, but incidentally Wikipedia has 2,486,345 articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics). And, if I try to browse the fuses, I see pages and pages with only wikipedia articles (http://httpfuse.com/browse.htx?alphabet=A&whichPage=800)
Rama,
Thanks for the clarification.
I think you have hit upon a very nice idea… you’ll probably have to nurture it carefully.
Rama,
One feedback.. I think your embed code needs a relook… I had a tough time getting it to work without crossing over into the text below. finally I took out the div tag ….
probably needs some tweaks
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Amit,
Will fix the embed issue asap.
really useful product.
Just one question, why do I need to register/login?
hi Ujj,
To keep track of ratings that a user has given to various links (so as to prevent him not to rate more than once for a given link) , to keep track of spam links etc a user need to register/login before performing any key task.
Hope this clarifies your question.Feel free to ask if you still need any clarifications.
Good catch Sudhanshu yes we have brought the setup data from wikipedia.
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