TechLife Columbus: Toobla – Visual Bookmarking made easy

Toobla – Visual Bookmarking made easy

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by Jason Blanton on August 28, 2009

Toobla – Visual Bookmarking made easy

toobla When it comes to cool startups on the web most point to San Fran and the West Coast. What if I told you there is a very cool startup right here in the Greatest City of All? That’s crazy talk right? Think again.

Toobla started right here in Columbus Ohio is getting ready for public consumption on September 14, 2009.

So what is Toobla?

Toobla is a visual bookmarking service to help gather and organize your favorite stuff on the web in a nice visual way. Toobla makes it easy to collect, enjoy and share your favorite stuff from the web. Toobla folders are portable, sharable containers into which you can put anything interesting you find on the web
Toobla folders can hold any number of digital media items: web page bookmarks, videos, images, documents, games, music, and any kind of embeddable application or widget. Toobla is evolving the way sharing works online. People naturally build collections of content they enjoy and now have a way to share multiple things with one URL.

So let me give you an example. I created a folder on Toobla called Webalicious music. I added several cool videos from YouTube and then grabbed the embed code and added it below. Now you can click on a video and it will play in a shadowbox thing right here on this site.

Pretty slick huh?

One of the biggest problems these days with sharing things on Twitter, FaceBook or even my blog, is that once I share it more content comes along and gets added on top and covered up. Then when I want to find it again I either have to dig back through old stuff or try and search for it on Google. Fingers crossed that I ever find it again.

Toobla Team

The team behind Toobla consists of 4 full timers and an intern.
Jake Saxbe – Founder, attorney, built Internet music related .coms and has TV production background, lives in Mill Valley north of San Francisco.
Brian Link – CEO, previous VP of Technology at Digg (managed development, QA and R&D for 3 years, growing Digg from 200k users to nearly 4MM), lives in Columbus
Matt Yoho – Lead Developer
Mike Busch – Developer
Tony Schneider – Intern developer

Mark your calendars

So mark your calendars for September 14th and you can see what fun I’ve been having creating and sharing content with this really cool visual bookmarking system. Oh and they have a bunch of new things that will come out when they launch publicly that aren’t currently available.