Handpick.Me: Share Interesting Content to Groups Which Find it Interesting
The Internet is a great thing. Duh. You can get in touch with lots of people and find interesting and new content every single day. Of course, a friend would always share that content with their friends, right? Well, sort of.
Social networks are cool for sharing stuff, however, some networks have different audience than others. You might share a picture of you and your dog on Facebook, but not on Twitter, and vice-versa. You might have a list of contacts who love getting your emails with funny cat photos, but they don’t like to get web comics. How awesome it would be if there was an online service which could send a link to a specific group of people, right from your browser? It would be very awesome and it actually exists – meet Handpick.Me.
The Most Caring Way To Share Links
Handpick.Me is really simple – sign up for a free account (one group, two members in it) to try it out. First, you should save the Handpick.Me bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. If you’re a Google Chrome user, you can get the extension for it as well.
The next step is to create a group – while the free plan allows only one group (which kinda loses the point of different groups of people), you can upgrade for $2.99 or $9.99 per month. You’ll get unlimited groups, the ability to save unlimited links during the week, daily and weekly delivery as well.
Now that you’ve created your group, add some members to it – just enter their names and email addresses. You’re ready to go and share some fun or interesting content.
Your Own Newsletter
When you find something interesting on the Web, just click the Handpick.Me bookmarklet. A pop-up dialog opens up in which you can choose which group should get the link (with an optional message).
Now, you don’t want to spam your friends, right? You can find dozens of interesting links and just imagine how frustrating it would be to get an email every time you find a great link, right? Handpick.Me won’t send instant emails (because you could use some instant messengers instead); it will create a nice email newsletter and send it at the end of the day or week, based on your settings. So, your job now is to surf along normally as you would, find some interesting stuff and using Handpick.Me bookmarklet save it for your own newsletter to your friends.
If you think you have something to share with the public, you can create a group and make it public, so everything you share to that group will be available via RSS feed. Handpick.Me is a great way to share great content. Grouping your contacts just makes it easier, because, as you know, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you should keep that in mind. The same goes for the stuff you’re sharing. Now go ahead and Handpick.Me something!
