Mister Wong

Mr. Wong was a German -language application for social bookmarking. Since March 6, 2009 Mister Wong is an independent company. Prior to the offer of the media agency construktiv in Bremen was operated. Since August 1, 2013, the website is used as a fashion portal.

History

The site was launched in the spring of 2006 and ordered the meantime claims to have 8 million bookmarks. In January 2007, Mr. Wong has acquired the German taggle bookmarking service. November 7, 2011 Mister Wong was offered for a new operator for sale. . On 9 August 2012, the ekaabo GmbH, Weinheim announced the acquisition of Digg. On 1 August 2013, the social bookmarking functions has been set. The bookmarks can be exported via alt.mister - wong.de.

Mister Wong according to Alexa was among the most visited websites in Germany at number 328 (February 2012). The service was available in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.

Functions

Bookmark able to register for free directly on the Internet site of the provider, with a special toolbar that was available as an extension for multiple browsers, or by import function from other social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us created. Skip offered some online editors and blogs to their readers the opportunity to automate their articles as a bookmark to Mister Wong create.

The bookmarks of a user were usually public, but also could be marked as private; then they were not displayed to other users. Furthermore, there was community services, with the user insight into user behavior of other members (see folksonomy ) received. The bookmarks have tags are assigned; users could form a network among themselves to pursue their respective Bookmark collections, and they could also send messages via the platform. In addition, you could create a user profile. Bookmarks on a particular subject could be collected into groups.

Since November 2010, Mr. Wong was an opportunity to upload documents or files in various formats, such as PDF documents or presentations. Uploaded documents can be provided with its own license, rated, commented, and (optionally ) be downloaded by other users.

The new logo / racism accusation

The German operators of the portal was accused by American users racism. In May 2007, excitement was caused by the former logo with an illustration of a Chinese man with a pear-shaped face, bald head and a big grin. Ernie Hsiung, a blogger with Asian ancestors who rebelled over the stereotyping of Chinese. Even the hitherto valid slogan "ping pong, king kong, Mister Wong" was criticized.

Mister- Wong- founder Kai Tietjen apologized in the official blog of the portal. In December 2007, a new logo was introduced, which was selected from the results of a competition with a vote of Mister- Wong- user, and finally the jury dealt with Mister Wong employees.