CoReap is a plugin for your web browser, FF and IE only, which works as a social search and bookmarking tool. You can bookmark websites of interest, share them with your friends, or just look cool at home by yourself.

The key features include

• Instantly bookmark web pages with the CoReap toolbar button
• Manage your bookmarks from the CoReap browser sidebar
• Import your bookmarks from Del.icio.us or your browser favorites
• Quickly search your bookmarks from the CoReap browser sidebar
• Invite, and manage, your social search friends from the CoReap browser sidebar
• Quickly locate relevant web pages from your bookmarks, and your social search network (i.e. your friend’s bookmarks) from the CoReap Panel search result pages on Google and Yahoo
• Browse random web sites with the CoReap toolbar button
• One tiny safe browser plugin, and loads of other features.

You can download the plugin here. I must warn you though if you use the All In One Sidebar plugin for FF, the CoReap plugin will move your AIOS to the left, if you have it on the right. Quite annoying actually.

The application aims to take the best out of social search and social bookmarking and bring it all together.

I tried it out, installation went fine except for moving my AIOS to the left. Registered an account, logged in, bookmarked a random page, it showed up in my account.

I can then either invite friends or be a lonesome bookmarker roaming the internet. I can import all my bookmarks from del.icio.us or from my browser. It seems smooth enough, looks OK. Alright, I’ll uninstall it now. Your turn.

The idea looks like a good one, I like the fact that if I do a search on Google or Yahoo a collaborated set of social search bookmarks appears on the same page. Of course you can choose to make all your bookmarks private, but where’s the socializing in that.

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.