Simpy Chichimichi

By now, Germans, Austrians, and the Swiss should be back from holiday skiing, so here is something for them and all other German-speaking people out there.

Several weeks ago, Benjamin translated Simpy's user interface from English to German. He said he was doing it to make it easier for his wife to use Simpy, and I hope he succeeded. I also hope this German version of Simpy makes Simpy more accessible and attractive to all other German speakers. Halo! Wie gehts? Willkommen zu Simpy! Or something like that... Once again, thank you Benjamin! Is anyone keeping track of how many times I've thanked Benjamin for his work so far? I'm not, but I must have thanked him at least half a dozen times so far, and I have a feeling I'm nowhere near done thanking him.

To give you an idea what a German version of Simpy looks like, here is a sample of the user interface:

If you would like to translate Simpy to your language, please email me. As always, contributors names and link go up to the contributors page. Plus, I clearly like thanking people.

Here is a little announcement.

A few days ago several influential blogs (see below) announced RawSugar, another social bookmarking service, has stopped all R&D efforts, as it is out of funding. Technically, RawSugar is not closing down, but looking for a new home for its technology. While it is sad to see RawSugar go, this was not news to me. As a matter of fact, I have been in close contact with Frank Smadja, RawSugar's VP of R&D, for some time now, working on a migration path for RawSugar's users. As the result, RawSugar users can now easily import their bookmarks into Simpy. If you are a RawSugar user, the import tool is at http://www.simpy.com/3p/rawsugar and it works just like the del.icio.us import.

The import is done in real-time and "in the background". Upon completion, an email is sent to the email address stored in the person's Simpy account. For each bookmark in RawSugar, the following attributes are imported: URL, title, note, tags, visibility (public or private), and add date (n.b. if the bookmark add date from RawSugar is before the creation date of your Simpy account, then the current date is used as your bookmark's add date).

Just as I was happy to provide de.lirio.us users with a new home 6 months ago (see De.lirio.us migrates to Simpy), I am happy to be able to provide RawSugar users with a new home for their bookmarks. Welcome RawSugar users!

Some blogs that covered the recent RawSugar changes: TechCrunch, Mashable, Micro Persuasion, /Message