Social image bookmarking sites are a dime a dozen these days (think ffffound, Dropular, and their ilk) but Buamai takes the concept to a new level. The brainchild of Michael Paul Young (co-creator of Youworkforthem), Buamai has thus far kept their contributor list closed — something I think is a must if you’re going to keep quality up. It seems that free-for-all sites’ content suffers incrementally as their user count rises. Buamai also has some novel sorting features along with the “Destoy” and “Mutate” options that make for some interesting modes of discovery. Here’s to hoping for an invitation. Buamai
Buamai
05.13.2009
Buamai is great, check out their iPhone app, you get all this greatness everywhere you go in a random fashion 🙂
Eh. What else you got?
Criminy that’s one slow loading site.
Wow that is a slow site. Dropular was super slow when they first started too, so maybe they are still working out some hosting issues or something. I like the emphasis on the thumb layout though; always thought that was a much better way to do it than the image column
wow, it is slow today….was doing much better yesterday (although it still wasn’t that great)
great site. im def bookmarking that one.
does anyone else see the tiny ASCII happy face at the bottom? ive seen that a couple sites over the past couple days.
the baby snuggy rules btw. reminds me of this: http://www.alvarezwax.com/Images/Film%20Images/Kuato,George.jpg
Kevin that ascii smiley face is some wordpress analytic plugin
yeah, I see that smiley at the bottom of my wordpress stats page, but it doesn’t show up here on the site, which is what it’s tracking….weird.
gotcha. thanks.
I met these guys in Bangkok, nice people. The site runs fine for me, I use everyday.
There’s so many of these image sites cropping up in the past few months. Two that I’ve found to be really useful are Image Spark ( http://www.imgspark.com ) and But Does it Float ( http:www.butdoesitfloat.com ). Check it.
Its good that some of these sites have high image design quality but I am glad that vi.sualize.us (or sites like it) do not exclude people because I use it daily bookmarking images regarding a range of things beyond the strictly artistic realm, mainly for my own use later as a resource or reference.