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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