Hooeey: mashup of your web browsing history, bookmarks..and more
Hooeey is an interesting application that captures your browsing history and gives tools to store/analyze them and share with friends. In short, Hooeey is a mashup of del.ico.us, Google personal search and a regular social network app, all delivered via the Hooeey toolbar.
How does Hooeey works?
You need to install the Hooeey toolbar, which will track all your webhops/browsing. You can save/share your browsing history with contacts.
The idea behind hooeey is that Internet users can re-use their browsing history in a productive manner to reduce time spent in searching for previously visited web pages, easily share interesting web pages with others and to use the provided dashboard to manage their browsing time more efficiently.
hooeey de-links browser history from the browser
Browsing history data, which until now, was buried (or worse, lost) in the bowels of web browsers are now set free. De-linking makes the data set very flexible: browsing history data and tags can be stored on-line or on one’s computer and it can be given different access levels: private, community or public.
What’s really cool about Hooeey?
Hooeey works across browsers and will log all your browsing history at a central location – i.e. your hooeey account. If you are concerned about privacy, worry not!
Hooeey offers 3 levels of privacy – private (i.e. you don’t want to share the data with anybody else), public and community (i.e. share with your friends). You can also sync your Hooeey account with your del.icio.us bookmarks.
Apart from the eye candy visual tools to analyze your browsing history, one of the coolest feature of Hooeey is the ability to create WebTours of your shared links (i.e. slideshow like this).
Overall, hooeey is a damn neat product, and it would be interesting to see how hooeey survives against the biggies like Google bookmarks/Mozilla 3.0 or even Flock.
My only concern is why another toolbar (and why not a FF add-on?)? A FF addon, in my opinion will bring down the “try-out” barrier (which is quite high currently as no one wants to install another toolbar).
What’s your take on hooeey? Will you use the product?
Interestingly, hooeey is an Indian startup, founded by Rajeev Purnaiya, who earlier sold his co. CyberBazaar to WebEx.
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Damn cool UI! But I dont see any reason why I use this service, when I have del.icio.us plugins easily available. Not comparing this with del.iciou.us, but are we really this serious abt what we browse? If yes, why cant they develop a “right menu” option? (“add to hooeeyy”) instead of the toolbar?
Hey Tarun, I try to point out the difference between hooeey and del.icio.us. You can call hooeey also an un-bookmarking tool, not in the sense to remove bookmarks but more in the sense that with hooeey you do not have to think about if an URL is worth being bookmarked or not because it does it automatically in the background. It avoids the hassle, thinking and deciding if an URL is bookmark-worthy or not. Even if you not consciously and coordinated bookmark websites, the information will not get lost. hooeey offers the user the opportunity to remember and re-find websites and re-use it for different purposes. E.g. analysing you web-browse history or creating WebTous as linked in the article.
Here is a short list why an un-bookmarking function benefits the user?
* A fortune because also peripherally noticed links are recorded & re-usable
* No waste of time while re-searching the 3W all over again, re-use of your own web browse history
* Flexibility to tag, comment, rate or delete Links while you have a free time frame even off-line!
* Efficient search results since URLs get assigned additional information through tags & comments
* Privacy & control according to the off-line assigning opportunity of tags, comments and ratings
I am not trying to analyze this site.
But I seriously think that they need to focus more on utilizing the “community” concept. e.g. I will have my browsing history etc. stored on hooeey toolbar or whatever… but that doesn’t provide me with any special benefit against other services available online or a personal drive to use it even if such services were not present.
I would like to know if I’m searching for some term “Seed Investment” and hooeey knows it , they should provide me with more relevant/popular links in my community.
Its like helping people know a better website for the same keyword/category they are browsing for.