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The only achievement or accolade that Simpy has to its name for being a social bookmarking site is that it is the only one that still operates independently. Otis Gospodnetic launched this service in May 2004. The sad thing about this website, however, is that absolutely nothing new that this site offers its users. Its not bad, but there’s no attraction whatsoever to become its member. It just offers the usual stuff and that too in no uniquely different manner.

Getting started with Simpy is extremely easy and more than that absolutely free. One good thing that Simpy offers is that once you become its member and then if you log into your account for bookmarking, you don’t have to see any advertisements. It’s solely you and your bookmarks!

Like any other social bookmarking service, even Simpy allows you to access your bookmarks from any computer with an internet connection, be it your office, home, hotel or school. To save or to tag your pages with a single click, all you need to do is to install a Firefox add on which gives you a button on your browser window itself. So just click on it and Simp(l)y get going!

Using Simpy you can also mark your bookmarks private and/or public. Moreover, one of the good things about Simpy is its search capabilities. You can search the full-text marked pages and not just meta-data. Simpy also allows you to attach with your bookmarks searchable notes.

When we talk about Simpy, the only unique feature that comes across us is that Simpy as a social bookmarking website allows you to detect broken bookmarks and help them repair it. By broken bookmarks we mean that when a particular site, of which you had bookmarked a link or a webpage, gets updated or your webpage gets removed from there, then Simpy simply notifies you. It basically eliminates what we know as the ‘link rot’. It also gives its users a chance to export their bookmarks if they wish to. And you can also upload your existing bookmarks as well.

With Simpy you can obviously find out about the people who share similar interests as you and you can also subscribe to their bookmarks. Also, you can create your own groups and communities and always be in touch with them or you can simply subscribe to other users via watchlists. Almost every other social bookmarking site provides the feature of tagging a bookmark, but Simpy gives you the opportunity to tag cloud them i.e. you can create tags on the basis of the weights of the objects you wish to tag. Most data also have RSS feeds as well.

Just for the sake of some more information, Simpy in 2006 also took over the social bookmarking site De.lirio.us (which is also known as the clone of Del.icio.us) because it faced some technical difficulties.

No one understands the need to be a part of Simpy because its not being able to match upto the standards of other social bookmarking sites. Still, if you are a beginner at social bookmarking then you might as well can give this website a shot before moving on to a much better one.