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Social Bookmarking Services Revisited

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

pchere writes "Social bookmarking allows you share bookmarks publicly instead of restricting them to the browser favourites. Del.icio.us is such a fast growing community and its users have created a large number of del.icio.us tools to further enhance the service. Organization by tags allows for quick retrieval of sites by topics and bookmarks are available as RSS feeds. An article in D-Lib Magazine reviews the Social Bookmarking Tools to "remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing.""

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  1. de.icio.us by blackicye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I highly recommend anyone who hasn't yet visited this site to check it out.

    A good place to look is the page of "popular" sites. Some strange and interesting stuff turns up there fairly routinely.

    Stuff like how to cut (i.e. vegetables, meats etc) and Chess strategies among other sometimes bizarre sites.

    http://del.icio.us/popular/

  2. Backflip by griffinn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Backflip used to work well for social bookmarking. But now its user base has shrunk so much that it's trivially easy to distort the results in the "What's popular" sections.

  3. Is this the beginnings of... by MentalMooMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A massive global pr0n database?

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  4. A manually operated webcrawler. by OneDeeTenTee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With a few hundred million regular users could this sort of thing compete with search engines?

    Or would it just become a handy place that search engines would mine for data?

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  5. One bookmark to rule them all by Saeger · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I got tired of micromanaging and losing bookmarks long ago, so now I just use Google to store my bookmarks and use my brain to store the short keywords that matter.

    Not keeping tons of bookmarks is also a good way to reduce info-overload: you only remember the stuff that matters. No more feeling compelled to check up on hundreds of old links (and then cleaning house of the dead ones yet again).

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  6. Re:wow? by starphish · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I love del.icio.us. The only reason I use Firefox over Safari is because of del.icio.us. I have the same live bookmarks on my bookmarks toolbar on my PC, Mac, and work PC, without having to import them when I make changes on one computer. If I bookmark something at work, it shows up on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar at home.

    Also, I have a live bookmark on my mother's, and on a friend's computer. All I have to do is tag something as "Mom", or "Joel", and it will show up in their bookmarks in Firefox.

    When my 70 year old mom asks, "Where can I get cheap ink cartridges?", I will add a bookmark to her Firefox. All remotely.

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  7. Re:wow, not a fluff piece by siriuskase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thanks, now I guess I'll go read it. It took reading this far into the notes, to confirm it wasn't an article on how to use social networking to find nipples in cyberspace.

    I use del.icio.us. I'ts great, but the /. article sounded like it links to something worthless.

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  8. Here's what I want by DeeZee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I want a service that lets me se which sites other people recommend that I visit, based on the site that I'm currently on.
    Could be solved by a mix of RSS-feed and Firefox plugin?

    Anything like this exists?

    Oh, and it should be easy as hell to input a new site, or it will never be popular...

  9. Re:wow, not a fluff piece by LionKimbro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You might be interested in something I'm working on.

    I want it to be easy to use bookmarks in speech, not just keep them in a file.

    You can see this in wiki- in wiki, if you use a [[special link syntax,]] it'll automatically link the text.

    I want that for everything.

    If I'm writing in Slashdot, I shouldn't have to write out less-than a href=quote (lookup-and-paste-URL-here) greater-than blah blah less-than /a greater-than, to tell you about "blah blah." I'd much rather just type [[blah blah,]] and have slashdot look up my link from my namespace.

    Just like in wiki. But it should be possible from any text medium, and it should be able to link to anything with a URL.

    Check out our project if you're interested. We've got a timeline on the scale of a year right now, we've written a bunch of software. We've just formalized our Store spec (so that Firefox and other tools can communicate with a names store in a standard way,) and are in process of formalizing our query spec, so that our name servers all talk the same language. We're about to embark on our Firefox plugin, so you can just name a page as you see it. We have a del.icio.us script as well, that can autogenerate namespace descriptions from del.icio.us XML.