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It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things.
If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Example: link history for Slashdot: chart.

It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things.
If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Example: link history for Slashdot: chart.

It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things.
If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Example: link history for Slashdot: chart.

It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things.
If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Example: link history for Slashdot: chart.

Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search). It offers something very much like DURL, but it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search). It offers something very much like DURL, but it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search). It offers something very much like DURL, but it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].

[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo

I posted a more detailed comparison of the two in my blog a while back here.

Here are the stats for Simpy[1]:

Netscape/Mozilla 230701 (38.8%)
Explorer 217704 (36.6%)

Obviously, this an early-adopters-type site for those who dig PersonalWeb concept.

[1] Simpy

A number of people these days speculate that Google will be entering the browser war, especially when they bring up the fact that Google hired the main IE guy from Microsoft. Google _won't_ be building a browser, and it won't even be leasing it. Google may be investing their time, money, and people in pushing the existing Firefox browser, and enhancing its already powerful platform-like features (e.g. extensions and plugins).
For an example, you can try Firefox/Mozilla search plugin that lets you _full-text_ search your bookmarks from Firefox via Simpy[1]. I am sure you will see a lot more of that stuff soon.

Firefox is powerful, and when 1.0 hits download servers, all major newspapers will be blabbering about it, just like they were blabbering about GOOG's IPO. Then even non-tech people will dump IE in favour of Firefox.

[1] Simpy

Neither Furl nor Delicious nor Spurl really full-text index your bookmarks, and I find that to be a MAJOR minus in their service. Simpy, on the other hand, crawls and re-crawls pages you bookmarked, which lets you make full-text searches against your own and other users' indices, a la Google.

Simpy: Simpy.
Demo: demo account (shared, be nice)

Neither Furl nor Delicious nor Spurl really full-text index your bookmarks, and I find that to be a MAJOR minus in their service. Simpy, on the other hand, crawls and re-crawls pages you bookmarked, which lets you make full-text searches against your own and other users' indices, a la Google.

Simpy: Simpy.
Demo: demo account (shared, be nice)

Best thing I've found is Simpy. It's not quite a bookmark synchronizer, but it does give you access to your bookmarks from any browser that supports cookies, and there are javascript bookmarklets that make bookmarking and searching for bookmarks a breeze.

I think search IS the killer feature. However, just trying to be _better_ than Google is not going to do it. The company/service that will succeed in being better than Google will also have to come up with some alternative ideas and approaches to solving the same problem (finding a needle in a haystack). One of the approaches is to create a service based on humans instead of crawlers - and before you say it - I am not talking Yahoo or DMOZ-like directories and such. I'm talking what some people are calling 'folksonomies'. Instead of describing and explaining, I'll just point you to a demo account of one such service. Of course, this is just one of the alternative approaches, and this alone will not beat Google (at best, it will intrigue Google or Google-like companies to either copy, steal, or acquire). But, it's a start of thinking in a somewhat new direction, in my opinion.

I think search IS the killer feature. However, just trying to be _better_ than Google is not going to do it. The company/service that will succeed in being better than Google will also have to come up with some alternative ideas and approaches to solving the same problem (finding a needle in a haystack). One of the approaches is to create a service based on humans instead of crawlers - and before you say it - I am not talking Yahoo or DMOZ-like directories and such. I'm talking what some people are calling 'folksonomies'. Instead of describing and explaining, I'll just point you to a demo account of one such service. Of course, this is just one of the alternative approaches, and this alone will not beat Google (at best, it will intrigue Google or Google-like companies to either copy, steal, or acquire). But, it's a start of thinking in a somewhat new direction, in my opinion.

I agree with this! I hate managing my links (aka bookmarks aka favorites aka the stuff in your browser that you can never find when you need something and never know which folder to file it under). However, I like having my own personal search engine that lets me full-text search the contents of bookmarked web pages. That's what I use Simpy for (see sig). Smaller index, my stuff, my 'neighbourhood', etc. Try the demo and see for yourself (but be kind to this shared account). Long live search, death to hierarchies!

Does anyone have that stat? THAT would be useful!

P.S.
If you (want to) full-text search your bookmarks && use Mozilla or Firefox, check out this search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Ah, you need an account there? Just use this demo account for now.

Does anyone have that stat? THAT would be useful!

P.S.
If you (want to) full-text search your bookmarks && use Mozilla or Firefox, check out this search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Ah, you need an account there? Just use this demo account for now.

Bah, forget using A9 for searching your bookmarks. If you want a good full-text search for your bookmarks, just use a service that specializes in that, like Simpy. You can try a live demo using a demo account here.

Bah, forget using A9 for searching your bookmarks. If you want a good full-text search for your bookmarks, just use a service that specializes in that, like Simpy. You can try a live demo using a demo account here.

Here's another possible competitor - logo is very google looking too (picked it up in another article here on slashdot): Simpy.
I'm sure there are plenty of other useful similar tools, but thought I'd just keep adding to the case.

Ah, it looks like one of the Simpy links requires you to be logged in. Luckily, you can use a shared demo account without registering, and see the search plugin in action.

To add one more concrete example of a great development tool that I regularly use for development of web apps:

Web Developer Extension. This tool makes working with forms, CSS, images, etc. really really easy. I have been using 'View Source' or 'View Selection Source' much less often since I got this extension.

Similarly, I like to be able to search various online resources directly from my browser. To full-text search my bookmarks stored in Simpy I use browser search plugin.

In addition to that, you can get a number of other useful search plugins over at Mycroft (I keep typing Mycrosft - how bad is that!)

To add one more concrete example of a great development tool that I regularly use for development of web apps:

Web Developer Extension. This tool makes working with forms, CSS, images, etc. really really easy. I have been using 'View Source' or 'View Selection Source' much less often since I got this extension.

Similarly, I like to be able to search various online resources directly from my browser. To full-text search my bookmarks stored in Simpy I use browser search plugin.

In addition to that, you can get a number of other useful search plugins over at Mycroft (I keep typing Mycrosft - how bad is that!)

This is interesting. Recently, while writing a chapter about Lucene ports for Lucene in Action, I came across Beagle. Beagle uses one of the Lucene ports (Lucene.Net - the same one used by Lookout, the Outlook search plugin, recently purchased by Microsoft). Since I know it is possible to perform 'more like this' queries with Lucene (I use it on Simpy - URL below), my guess is that Beagle will be able to form similar queries, too.

I wonder if KDE developers should use Lucene or one of its ports under the hood.

Links:
Lucene in Action
Beagle
Lookout
Simpy

Hah, usefulness of social networking sites. I always wondered what the point of Orkut was.

In any case, take a look at Simpy (demo or tour) for an example of a useful social (networking tool) that is centered around bookmarks (i.e. something that is actually useful).

Hah, usefulness of social networking sites. I always wondered what the point of Orkut was.

In any case, take a look at Simpy (demo or tour) for an example of a useful social (networking tool) that is centered around bookmarks (i.e. something that is actually useful).

Hah, usefulness of social networking sites. I always wondered what the point of Orkut was.

In any case, take a look at Simpy (demo or tour) for an example of a useful social (networking tool) that is centered around bookmarks (i.e. something that is actually useful).

Note one cool Simpy tool that not many sites have (certainly no bookmarking sites that I know of) - Mozilla search plugin - here (requires login). It's got a handy side panel, too, but that is more common. Of course, browser integration is done with bookmarlets, so pretty much all browsers should work.

Does a browser count as a desktop app?

If it does, then Simpy is definitely a superior online replacement for bookmarks (really more than bookmarks, but let's keep it at that). Here is a demo and some screen shots.

Does a browser count as a desktop app?

If it does, then Simpy is definitely a superior online replacement for bookmarks (really more than bookmarks, but let's keep it at that). Here is a demo and some screen shots.

Does a browser count as a desktop app?

If it does, then Simpy is definitely a superior online replacement for bookmarks (really more than bookmarks, but let's keep it at that). Here is a demo and some screen shots.

Simpy (c.f. sig) uses that approach, and it works great! Does Google categorize pages? No, you simply drill down to pages you need by doing a search.

Try Simpy demo, and you'll see.

I see plugins as somewhat similar to programming languages with late bindings, which tends to allow more flexibility. Everything you build into th core a priori ends up making the final output less flexible.

Give people bricks and let them build their own house exactly how they want it.

And since this is about plugins for Firefox, here is one for Simpy (social bookmark manager and personal search engine tool):
<plugin>
Simpy search plugin
</plugin>