SEnuke
We love SEnuke. We really do.
Why is it at #4 in the list then?
Well, a few reasons actually. This site is a top 5 comparison review of social bookmarking software tools. SEnuke has a pretty good social bookmarking automation module.
But to say that is all it does would be a complete lie. SEnuke is intended to be a killer search engine marketing application, with modules for creating accounts across multiple types of Web 2.0 properties and posting to them, including article, video, blog and wiki sites. In that sense, it is way more than just a social bookmarking tool, containing an article spinner, an RSS manipulator and a pinger.
The first time we saw SEnuke, it blew us away. There are only one or two other apps that come close to its level of power and one of those requires server hosting with a large amount of proxies.
When it works, it is downright brilliant. When it doesn’t it is infuriating. Crashes are frequent and until recent times, updates weren’t exactly speedy. It is like one of those tanks that the A-Team would build out of scraps: insanely powerful, but if you kicked it hard, it would fall apart.
If you look how far the likes of BMD or Social Submitter have come, SEnuke looks a bit silly and is very much a case of you don’t know what you are missing… Until the competition comes up with it.
Where is the account management? The scheduler? The random/human element? Or how about an interface that doesn’t look like something a five year old designed?
Fortunately, updates have become a bit more frequent now, but there was a time when it was thought the software had died from lack of support. As we have pointed out several times through these reviews, continuous updates are so important to this sort of software and reliability is key if you wish to incorporate tools like this into your work.
In closing, SEnuke is an awesome piece of software, capable of so much more than just social bookmarking.
However, if we were to just use the social bookmarking module on its own and compare it to every other piece of software in this review, its crummy user interface, unreliability and poor management put it firmly into 4th place.
