CiteULike is another web-based academic citation management system. My first impression is that the interface isn't quite as friendly as Connotea.
It has several notable strengths. First, it is the most shareable tool. You can share your tags and collections and search those of other public collections. You can also see how many other people have linked to the same resources in one of their collections. A second strength is that it actually gives you a lengthy list of ejournal sources from which it can capture citation information. It gives you options for importing and exporting citations.
A few weaknesses. A biggie for me is that it doesn't capture citations for EBSCOhost databases. Since most of my access to full-text articles is through EBSCOhost databases, this is major issue for me. You can manually add information for websites and other sources, but you only have a single template for all types of materials. (Zotero has templates customized by type of material). Web pages can be especially awkward. CiteULike is really geared to work with academic papers and articles. I'd also cite usability as an issue. After exploring this service, I still think it's harder to use than Connotea and Zotero.
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