Ultimately, Shazzle’s biggest strength is the application’s ability to make sharing easier. Share files, share ideas; share anything you can move around digitally. One thing you might not intuitively think of as being a thing you can share with a file sharing application is “links,” or your favorite websites. Here’s how it works in Shazzle…

Share Web Addresses and YouTube Clips

• Share YouTube Videos - Say you have a handful of favorite YouTube videos. You’d like to share these videos with your friends; store a bunch of them in one spot. Just create a community. Designate one folder as your “links” or your “YouTube Clips” folder (call it whatever you want). Then just click “add links” and start adding links. Type in the address of the YouTube clips you like and everyone who enters your community can watch the movies in the viewer by double clicking on the link that’s in the folder you just created.
• Share and Sort Your Favorite Websites - When you create a community, you can share a bunch of things AT ONCE…so you have a folder for music, a folder for pictures, and a folder for links/websites. You can share YouTube videos, but you can also set up a folder full of your “favorite” websites. Or a few folders. Your favorite sports sites, interesting political blogs, etc. You can do all that in your personal community too. That lets people get a fuller picture of who you are and what you like.

Personally, I really like the YouTube links. Right now there are a couple of “movie clip” communities up (check out the Shazzle World, the hierarchy right when you sign in, under the category “movies”). Having a place to house all of these movies clips is pretty interesting. Public communities with a ton of people in there’ll be interesting, because you chat and throw the links up, and check out who’s saying what about the movies. You can look up and down a member list, then check their personal profiles really quickly. If you don’t want your community spamed and you’d rather restrict things to you and your friends, wall the thing off by making it a private community; that way, only people you know can see and add to the list of links.

So yeah: go play around with the links and let us know what you think.

Thanks for reading,

Tom Demers