Simpy

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**Simpy**

URL	http://www.simpy.com/
Type of site	Online social bookmarking
Registration	Optional
Owner	Otis Gospodnetic
Created by	Otis Gospodnetic
Launched	May 2004

Simpy is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service. The service launched in May 2004, and as such is one of the oldest social bookmarking services. It is the oldest such service still operating independently, not run by a large publicly traded company (del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo!, and Furl was acquired by Looksmart).

Simpy uses tags (and tag clouds) to help with bookmark recall, allows bookmarks to be shared or kept private. It has a rich and well-documented REST API suitable for mashups, and integration with other applications and services. Simpy's founder is one of the developers of Lucene, a popular text search toolkit. As such, Simpy sports powerful search capabilities. The service allows for cooperation via Groups with different levels of privacy, and for discovery of relevant and new links via its Watchlists and Watchlist Filters. In addition to saving, tagging, and sharing links, users can also save, tag, and search free-text Notes.

Virtually all data pages also come as Feeds, thus making them suitable for use in RSS/Feed aggregators.