I’m continuing my review of online photo bookmarking services with vi.sualize.us. This is a great site, with all of the features you would want, but few asian sirens (yet).A few weeks back I reviewed 4U beauty image bookmarking (here). I complained about the lack of features and the lack of credit given to original sources.

vi.sualize.us does very much better on both of those counts. When posting, separate URLs are recorded for the image and for the page on which it was found, and these can be edited separately. This is important, because one often wants to bookmark a gallery of thumbs, which is not the page on which the image was found. As with other bookmarking sites, it’s possible to either post an image yourself or just “like” an image posted by someone else. vi.sualize.us goes a bit further by (somehow) recognizing and consolidating separate posts to the same image, even if they point to different sites. There are snapshots of related photos adjacent to each picture, and this works pretty well, as this screen shot shows (by the way, Ayumi Kinoshita was featured here):

These are all nice features, and I will be using vi.sualize.us to bookmark photos, much as I have used delicious for a few years now. I’m not sure if these sites are related. It’s interesting that delicious gave up the fancy del.icio.us for delicious.com.

One drawback of vi.sualize.us is that it sometimes can be slow, which is understandable for a photo site but can be frustrating. Another drawback is that there are relatively few bookmarks to asian sirens. Of course, that depends on who is bookmarking, so I introduced the tag asian-siren for us all to use. Let’s see how that works.