Jumptags takes off where other social bookmarking tools might have left off. The web service not only allows users to collect, store, share and distribute web bookmarks, but it also does the same for notes, rss feeds and contact lists.

This Web 2.0 application is built with AJAX and officially jumped into beta at the end of April this year and has been achieving a nice following. Signing up for an account is of course free and only takes a minute.

Jumptags corporate blog is lacking a bit, and now that they are stirring up some attention, we hope they would increase the communication with users.

Other competitors in the marketplace include Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Yahoo myweb.

With so many social bookmarking sites out now, what ones should we concentrate on visiting to find the best content?

eBizMBA has compiled a list of 30 of the largest social bookmarking sites in the marketplace. The list includes some lesser known newcomers, as well as some top ranked favorites. The social bookmarking list was put together by calculating the number of inbound links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank and US traffic data to find out the popularity of the sites.

The top five include:

• Digg
• Netscape
• Technorati
• Del.icio.us
• Fark

Yahoo! launched a new feature yesterday called Yahoo! Suggestions. Yahoo! Autos Senior Engineering Manager Michael Olivier describes it as a way for users to offer comments to let Yahoo! know what topics matter most to its readers. Suggestions are available for Yahoo! Autos, Travel, TV, and a handful of other sites right now, with more expected soon.

But there's something familiar about Yahoo! Suggestions. I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh right, that's it: It looks suspiciously like Digg. The title of the digg link to the Yahoo! announcement is cleverly titled "Yahoo Shamelessly Rips Off Digg and Brags About It." In fact, even Olivier refers to the new site as having "Digg-style voting."

Sure, Digg doesn't have a monopoly on social rankings, but you've got to admit, the web sites do look an awful lot alike, which is enough to prompt an awful lot of ranting among Digg users, both on Digg, and in the comments section of Yahoo! Suggestions.

The team at del.icio.us made a quiet announcement last week--so quiet that Download Squad didn't even hear it. It seems that the beginning of February saw the 1.5 millionth user register on the social bookmarking site. Apparently since the Yahoo! buyout the team is bursting at the seams trying to integrate with Yahoo!'s user base. The del.icio.us team hasn't made a post on their official blog since December 2006 to inform us as to what they have been up to or give us possible hints at what's to come with the service, but del.icio.us creator Joshua Schachter ensures us that they have a lot going on and a lot more changes are in store for the future. To start with, del.icio.us is working to improve the UI and flush out any hidden design issues from way back in the day. del.icio.us is still trying hard to figure out what the future of the tool is, but I'm sure it will make any bookmarker happy. I use del.icio.us every single day to store, manage, archive and share bookmarks. It's a powerful yet simple tool that, after reading Schachter's comments, I'm sure will grow to new heights this year.

For I don't know how long, Yahoo! News has provided the means to rate (aka recommend) news stories. It's not a simple "thumbs up/down" but a five-star scale. At the top of each topic page at Yahoo! News you can find links to "Most emailed," "Most viewed," and "Most recommended."

The most recommended stories bubble to the top at several places (along with their respective RSS feeds):

• All news stories
• All news photos
• World News
• Business News
• Entertainment News
• Sports News
• Technology News
• Political News
• Science News
• Health News
• Opinion