Oneview

Oneview is a German - and English-language application for social bookmarking. The platform was launched by the multimedia agency denkwerk in 1998 and thus is regarded as one of the first providers of social bookmarking world. In August 2012, Oneview was repositioned and re-launched at the same time dw capital (CEO Axel Schmiegelow ), both the German - and the English-language platform. Claims to the platform has a collection of more than 50 million members from their bookmarks (as of September 2012).

Functions

With the repositioning of Oneview in the summer of 2012, the original social bookmarking service has evolved into a social sharing platform. Functions have been added and changed the look. New features include import, archiving and searchability of links in social networks, creation of themes for the administration of the "digital " link memory and link relevant recommendations from social networks. Formerly saw before Oneview that links are stored manually by the users personal profile; Today, the widespread links with the linked social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter ) are automatically adjusted.

Below mentioned core features remained intact even after the relaunch in 2012:

The basic functions of Oneview as a social bookmarking service consist in storing and managing links to the keywording and tagging the links, the central copy of the saved links and the provision of time and space independent access to the link collection of one or all members. Furthermore, the information gathered may be shared with other users. Thus, the user can find the information quickly, Oneview offers a search function. In the search results filtered human information is presented. Similarly, the combination of different tags as search query is used to find the desired information quickly. For registered users there is the possibility to create a personal collection of bookmarks and to provide them with tags. Thus, a user can always access his collected links and find it again. The collected bookmarks can be marked as private or public cost. At a public release they are available to other users, regardless of whether they are registered or not. The public release contains the allocation of additional tags by other users (see folksonomy ).

History and Development

The early establishment Oneview can be seen as one of the forerunners of the current social bookmarking and social search offerings. Oneview was available online as early as 2001 in 12 languages ​​. For the concept Oneview was, inter alia, in 1999 awarded the German Multimedia Award and in the same year with the " World Medal " of the New York Festivals. In August 2000, then was followed by an award of the "Best in eBusiness Award".

Version 1 of the platform was replaced in 2005 by version 2, where the old version was still standing until March 2007. When she had withdrawn definitively from the network and completely replaced by the version that the involvement of the Cologne publishing house M. DuMont was announced.

Dw capital is responsible for the repositioning of Oneview in 2012, including implementation and is involved as an investor in the company.