Connotea.com - Organize, Share, Discover

Ever felt that the huge amount of websites available makes you forget some of the good ones out there? Wish you had a way to remember the good ones without having to deal with complicated folders? Then Connotea is the site you were looking for. This site allows you to easily save and organize the links you are interested in with one simple click, and save them, applying tags in order to make it easier for you to find them afterwards. The site’s service is very easy to use, you’ve got no storage limit, there’s pretty much nothing to learn, and no software to download, so you can start saving your links as soon as you register. The site also permits you to share your links, and view those links which are shared, allowing you to discover new, interesting sites from other users. The site is completely free and it is very easy to use.

¨Saving references in Connotea is quick and easy. You do it by saving a link to a web page for the reference, whether that is the PubMed entry, the publisher's PDF, or even an Amazon product page for a book. Connotea will, wherever possible, recognize the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you. In Connotea you assign keywords (or 'tags') to your references. These can be anything you like, and you can use as many as you like, so there's no more need to navigate complicated hierarchies of folders and categories. Connotea shows you all the tags you've ever used, so it's easy to get back to a reference once you've saved it.¨

With the huge amount of websites available, it’s easy to loose track of those which are really good, so Connotea’s service may prove to be very useful for those who browse through large amounts of sites. The service is easy to use and completely free, so no one is really denied of using it. The site is easy to browse through and completely self explanatory.

What does Connotea offer that will make it stand out from the bunch of competitors it has? Is this service useful for those who just use the Internet for a limited purpose? Isn’t the site too simple and monotonous, making potential users to go to the competitors’ sites?