In order to better manage and share the bookmarks for the users, Xerpi has announced the launched of community views today. Community views feature is designed to enhance their user experience and it’s the first movement of Xerpi in fulfilling its promise in freeing the users on the social bookmarking activities. Despite the popularity of social bookmarking, the use of sharing the links with an user’s friends in an simple yet organized format is rare. In technology settings, Xerpi designed a user interface that an user can drag and drop the link block into a new view in an easy manner. With now the availability of community views, Xerpi has made some of the page views available to the public, whether those who visit the views are registered users or not. Xerpi users can create as many community views as they want, with the customize layout and the page occupied by links. The view can be made as private, or to the public. Collaborative filtering can be achieved on Xerpi, which mean users can add, edit or update the links found on the community views. There are some public views , i.e. community views on Xerpi, some great examples are Everything Flamenco, and All iPhone. Currently, there are top 10 public views listed on Xerpi. Though the idea community views is sounds simple, but all the relevant links found in one page can help anyone who use this page grow her knowledge in the area she interested. If community views properly manage by a group of users, it might facilitate a large-scale collaboration. Imagine you share your favorite links with your friends through a view, and your friends share their favorites with you, all the users can thus benefit from this feature, even in a small scale. If you want to know more about how this works, you can read Xerpi’s blog entry that entitled,”Put it on my tab.”

Currently, Xerpi offered downloadable plugin and Xerpi Mobile to help users to manage their links in a one-click process or through the mobile devices. Each new user will be offered a new “My Xerpi Page” that all the links is categorized under well-designed headings such as Business, Shopping, Sports, Money, Travel, News, and etc., as shown in the below. Xerpi also identified the potential benefits of social bookmarking and social network and hence, they released the link info button in which it allow users see who else on Xerpi has the same favorites and access the like-minded users’ Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn profiles, and then connecting these group of users across multiple social networking sites.

Xerpi is a New-York based social bookmarking startup and officially launched in last month, i.e. October 2007. It was originally called “Go Do” when it was first launched in the UK in 2004.