What are these “Share” services?

Each icon represents one of the external web services on the bcn website which facilitate personal or communal information management. These services enable users to classify, share, assess, comment on and save any contents they find on the Internet.

What does each icon mean?

Facebook

is a social network where you can share any information you want to post with friends and other users

Menéame

is a website that allows users to send out news. Registered users send stories which other site users can then vote on. Those that get the most votes are published on the home page.

Twitter

is a microblogging social network that allows users to send “tweets”, micro text entries up to a maximum of 140 characters, either via the Net or by texting an SMS.

Del.icio.us

is an online favourites manager where each user can store, classify and share links that interest them. It also lets them categorise bookmarks with a labelling system.

Google Bookmarks

is a service that lets users save bookmarks in a Google account. It allows users an opportunity to add notes and labels.

El meu Yahoo!

is a service that lets users create a customised home page that includes a search function, email, news and any information users can configure.

MSN Reporter

a participatory service that lets users with Windows Live - i.e. users registered with Messenger, Hotmail, Spaces and other Microsoft services - publish, comment on and promote news items.

La Tafanera

a Catalan-language portal for promoting news and blog notes that users can send and vote on for promotion to the home page.