Buamai
Posted by Scott
Social image bookmarking sites are a dime a dozen these days (think ffffound, Dropular, and their ilk) but Buamai takes the concept to a new level. The brainchild of Michael Paul Young (co-creator of Youworkforthem), Buamai has thus far kept their contributor list closed — something I think is a must if you’re going to keep quality up. It seems that free-for-all sites’ content suffers incrementally as their user count rises. Buamai also has some novel sorting features along with the “Destoy” and “Mutate” options that make for some interesting modes of discovery. Here’s to hoping for an invitation. Buamai
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michael j. says:
May 13, 2009 at 1:41 amBuamai is great, check out their iPhone app, you get all this greatness everywhere you go in a random fashion :)
greg says:
May 13, 2009 at 6:30 amEh. What else you got?
thelottery says:
May 13, 2009 at 8:09 amCriminy that’s one slow loading site.
alex says:
May 13, 2009 at 9:07 amWow that is a slow site. Dropular was super slow when they first started too, so maybe they are still working out some hosting issues or something. I like the emphasis on the thumb layout though; always thought that was a much better way to do it than the image column
Scott says:
May 13, 2009 at 9:41 amwow, it is slow today….was doing much better yesterday (although it still wasn’t that great)
Kevin says:
May 13, 2009 at 12:06 pmgreat site. im def bookmarking that one.
does anyone else see the tiny ASCII happy face at the bottom? ive seen that a couple sites over the past couple days.
Kevin says:
May 13, 2009 at 12:13 pmthe baby snuggy rules btw. reminds me of this: http://www.alvarezwax.com/Images/Film%20Images/Kuato,George.jpg
Jeremy Pettis says:
May 13, 2009 at 1:32 pmKevin that ascii smiley face is some wordpress analytic plugin
Scott says:
May 13, 2009 at 1:51 pmyeah, I see that smiley at the bottom of my wordpress stats page, but it doesn’t show up here on the site, which is what it’s tracking….weird.
Kevin says:
May 13, 2009 at 2:28 pmgotcha. thanks.
Taechit says:
May 13, 2009 at 8:13 pmI met these guys in Bangkok, nice people. The site runs fine for me, I use everyday.
David says:
May 18, 2009 at 9:45 amThere’s so many of these image sites cropping up in the past few months. Two that I’ve found to be really useful are Image Spark ( http://www.imgspark.com ) and But Does it Float ( http:www.butdoesitfloat.com ). Check it.
scott lowe says:
May 20, 2009 at 3:34 amIts good that some of these sites have high image design quality but I am glad that vi.sualize.us (or sites like it) do not exclude people because I use it daily bookmarking images regarding a range of things beyond the strictly artistic realm, mainly for my own use later as a resource or reference.