What is YooRL?

Have you ever received a link to a resource/piece of information (interesting publication, anecdote, picture, flash game, joke, prank, etc) that you just had to share with your friends, or colleagues?

So you posted it on your blog/in chat/sent to your contacts in IM/posted it on your favorite forum/social networking site/etc?

Ever received (via IM)/ found the very same URL from totally different people the same day you posted/sent it

Ever wondered whether those people got it from the chain that was formed by reposting/resending the URL from your initial post/message?

Ever wanted to see the chain that you stared?

Explore the resonance that the link/resource you found, or even created/posted yourself, makes on the web?

See the URL you 'throw' go making rounds around the world, eventually coming back to you?

Get access to resources that made resonance around the world?

The YooRL service provides a way to monitor the spread of links to web resources and their popularity, in real time. This is done independently of the web resource, its contents, and the means by which the link to that resource is shared (IM, forums, email, air mail etc).

Once a link is shared the initial sender, as well as the yoorl community can watch, in real time, what is happening to that link. Weather the people who the link was sent to, viewed it; how long they spent on this resource; whether this resource was found interesting and thus spread further; the demography of the spread; how many people are viewing the resource at this very moment.

As a result a catalog with relevant resource rating is formed and available to the Internet community to use.

There were many things you could do with the web: browse, search, view, even alter it... Now you can feel the web.