Gabbr.com allows you to take advantage of a number of useful web based features in a social context. Some of these features include:

Get the Latest News
The latest news from agencies like CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press and BBC are accessible through Gabbr and updated in real time. The top headlines in the blogosphere are also readable through Gabbr's interface. But you don't just read the news at Gabbr, you interact with other users by contributing to the discussion. Users can comment on any story through Gabbr to be a part of the news story.

Website Promotion
Instead of having multiple blogs across multiple sites, Gabbr allows bloggers from all types of blogs to submit their blog entries for discussion in a centralized location. The blog entries are also mirrored on the original blog authors website. This cross promotion leads to an increase in the readership of all participating weblogs. The aim is to break down traditional online media barriers while creating constructive online communities.
If your blogsite has its own RSS or Atom feed you can submit it to Gabbr so that others can read it thereby increasing the distribution of your site's content.

Online Bookmarking
You can store your favourite websites online through Gabbr's interface.
Once they are stored online you can access these bookmarks anywhere you like. You can also share the bookmarks with friends or keep them prvate.

News Aggregation
Gabbr has a large repository of news and blog content from around the web. The repository gets updated in real time as you access it. You are able to add your own RSS feeds and subscribe to any RSS or Atom feeds currently being published. Once logged in click on "My Feeds" in the left navigation bar and start subscribing to your feeds! If it's online you can access it.

Social Networking
Gabbr provides you with the ability to socially network with people around the world. Whether it is through news threads or private messaging, Gabbr allows you to be social for free.

Attention Based Data Ranking
The content that is viewed around the internet is anonymously ranked and presented to all Gabbr users. Now you can see what other people are consuming on the ne and what they aren't.

What are you waiting for? Sign up and get involved!

Over the coming weeks Gabbr will continue to evolve into a Web 2.0 community portal to promote quality content, free cross promotion and community development.

Web 2.0 is a term used describe the transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of isolated websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The end goal for Web 2.0 is to replace desktop applications with applications on the internet.

Tim O'Reilly has an excellent article that defines Web 2.0 and its implications on the internet.