Mister Wong A Worthy del.icio.us Competitor?

I was able to receive an invitation to try out the closed beta of the English version of Mister Wong – Europe’s Largest Social Bookmarking portal and so I thought I would write about it today. For those who don’t know about Mister Wong it’s a German social bookmarking site similar to del.icio.us that was launched in the spring of 2006 by its founder Kai Tietjen. According to its website it boasts over two million visitors per month, it now lists more than one and half million bookmarks and it is more popular than del.icio.us in Germany. Although started in German, Mister Wong is also available in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and French. These details piqued my interest so I decided to see what all the fuss was about. I signed up for an invite to beta test their new English site and not too long after I received an invitation in my email to join their closed beta test. I followed the straight forward registration procedure and I was good to go.

My first impressions of the website are very positive. It was nice to see a clean and simple site design that looked attractive. It’s features include a tag cloud on the right hand side and on the left hand side a section showing popular bookmarks which it terms browser burners and also a section showing the newest bookmarks which it describes as fresh bookmarks. In the most basic terms the feature set is similar to del.icio.us. The features include saving bookmarks private or publicly, creation of public or private groups, buddy lists, easy bookmark addition, the availability of a mister wong toolbar, and a blog button/wordpress plugin.

In my brief testing of the site I found it quite usable and fun to use with lots of good potential. If you are tired of del.icio.us or looking for an alternative, Mister Wong is definitely a strong and worthy competitor to watch.