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Slashdot Bookmarks
The idea is that URLs are bookmarked, either using the javascript bookmarklett thingee or by directly visiting the bookmarks page. But when you are DONE bookmarking and tagging your URL, you can then write a journal or story submission about them. On a related note, journals are now directly submittable to Slashdot editors as well.
We plan to add RSS exporting as well as a few other features, but mostly what we're going to try to do is figure out ways to mine bookmarks for stories. You can best help by tagging bookmarks on the global bookmarks pages. This is all very experimental, so your help is appreciated.
Now as always on Slashdot we appreciate your feedback and bug reports. You can do this the slashdot SF project page. Or even better you could visit the site and consider submitting patches. Ideas are never in short supply here- time to code them all ALWAYS is. Join the mailing list! Or just start bookmarking and tagging stuff. Lastly, thanks to Tim Vroom who put all of this together.
update to clarify a point for the readers- this system is primarily an extension of our submission bin. You are welcome to bookmark & tag for your own pleasure, but our intent is that this system eventually be used to help us find content for the mainpage. So of course the functionality has overlap with other sites. No huge shock there. But our intentions is to use user bookmarks & tags as another input channel for editors picking stories for the audience.
to say that I'm glad dupe and spell check have been added.
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Isn't this pretty much the same sorta thing as http://www.google.com/bookmarks/ ?
Just seems like a nice way for a site to get it's users to index the internet for it..
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How is it too different from a blog thingee ?
Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.
This is absolutely del.icio.us!!
http://religiousfreaks.com/This will be a great new way for Slashdot users to dig for what others find interesting!
Let me be the first to say: I find this to be a delicious new feature!
It seems the primary benefit is to help slashdot find good articles to post about. For bookmark management and sharing there are plenty of other places to go. However many here do read each others journals, so maybe this will turn more into a community of bookmarks instead of delicious' million random links. I guess I'm saying it has the potential to be a more social system since /. has such a large community.
Developers: We can use your help.
I've seen them for about a day when they were first introduced, after that they are gone. What happened to them?
(and yes, I've got them enabled in my preferences)
This is your sig. There are thousands more, but this one is yours.
I think we should call it Sla.shd.ot.
Mentioning digg here isn't trolling or flamebait. But you could have provided a constructive comparison of /.'s new bookmarks to digg. Example:
/.'s links are like del.icio.us. The more people add a link the more popular it'll be.
* Digg links gain popularity through votes. It seems
* Digg's whole site is based on link popularity. Slashdot has article posts still moderated by humans. The bookmarks are simply another source of information.
* Slashdot has a community of people who flag each other as friends and foes, read each others' journals, etc. Digg is full of only random meaningless comments.
Developers: We can use your help.
I'll use the bookmark function so I can read on how to use it some time later.
While most posts will complain that this is too similar to http://del.icio.us/ why not figure out a way to partner with del.icio.us so that there could be something like http://slash.icio.us/ where people could create bookmarks that would appeal to the Slashdot crowd?
I use del.icio.us because it's easy and it works, plus there's already a ton of relevant links to find anytime I'm doing research on something (it's far more tageted and 'prescreened' than google) so I could see it as a natural extention of the "News for nerds" mantra.
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*dugg*!!
Or you could provide a digg to the Digg about slashdot, which links back to this story. What happens if you Digg /. and /.-effect Digg? It's like some infitinate loop (of course, since nobody ever RTFAs, I guess it doesn't matter much).
The newest comments should by default be the first thing you see, with the oldest aka 1st post at the bottom of the page. This would stop the inane "first post" dash thingie, and allow people to dwell upon the story at hand, in a leisurely manner. The idiotic wank-fest nature of slashdot will be somewhat reduced if you implement this measure, thereby making the World a slightly better place to live for us, and for our children, and for our children's children. And verily, our children are our future, are they not? You're welcome.
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Just give us back our occasional mod points, and maybe explain what we did wrong which caused them to be taken away in the first place.
And also, could you please add a place where we can discuss this very sort of thing and not be modded offtopic?
This site depends on its users. I'm a user. You're supposed to listen to me.
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The point is that it is targeted not just large. I feel like people who take the time to delve into /. tend not to be the same kind of people that just spew moronic crap on Digg and the like. The best part about /. is the community that keeps it as good as it is. If you go to a /. tagged bookmark site you have a better idea of what you are going to get.
First CSS now meta tagging and community bookmarks. Whats next!? Will I wake up coffee in hand only to find /. all AJAXed out with satellite imagery and SlashSpace personal pages with photosharing!?? I feel like I am really riding Web 2.0 into the future.
In your date formats, include the year. I never know which of two articles is the dupe unless I pull out a calendar to see what year has the article date falling on a Monday/Thursday/whatever.
This and delicious may be great for making site suggestions to the masses (or promoting your own site), but how about when you want bookmarking to actually be useful? I've been using http://www.ifaves.com/ a lot and find it great for personal private bookmarking. Set it as my home page, auto-login, use their bookmarklet for adding new pages, and it saves me a ton of time trying to remember what sites I want to revisit, plus lets me share bookmarks with friends without having to do it up in an email.
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Even more ways to waste my time, thank you Slashdot.!
...you mean there's other websites? Besides Slashdot? I've been doing this since 1999 and noone let me know?!?!
FLR
Ideally this'll be set up so when an editor goes into the submission bin stories are grouped according to the relationship they have to each other (5 stories pointing to the same link, for instance) and the best one can be chosen. Later if any other stories come in it will show that the link has already been used, and they can either be rejected or put aside for the occasional slashdot follow up link story.
In the end, this is a feature for the editors, not a general bookmarking service.
-Adam
"Digg is full of only random meaningless comments."
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excepting of course when said comments are copied verbatim from
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Give us some power over our own work please. Some of us work like Slashdot editors, with a tendency toward dupes and typos.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Submitter must be pretty badly out of the loop.
All I really want is to be able to bookmark comments and articles with one click. Kuro5hin/Scoop has had this feature (named Hotlist) for years, and has allowed me to keep track of my favorite articles.
How do I edit or delete bookmarks I've added??
Software Wars
I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico
Actually, that would make for a very interesting documentary. My guess is that anybody attempting this experiment will be tossed into a Mexican prison on relatively short order.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
this site specific news should have been seperated from main RSS feed.
Kill your TV
Hi Slashdot Editors & Mods, I like the idea that tags give a way to codify information based on small words with commonly accepted meanings. My Feature request would be that clicking on a tag didn't edit the tag, but brought up a list of global bookmarks or articles with that tag. So let me click on the 'anime' tag and get a list of people's 'anime' tagged bookmarks. I want the tags to be a search feature. I think this would make the tags even more usefull.
Also, how are "Popular" bookmarks figured out? By the number of people bookmarking the same site, or by the number of people following the link?
--Donald
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Slashdot's domain name is intended to represent stuttering: "http colon slash-slash-slash dot-dot org". How is this significantly less annoying than del.icio.us?
Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.
/. bookmarks insetead of del.ico.us, that's fine, but keep in mind that's not why it was designed and implemented.
You don't get it.
CmdrTaco:
But when you are DONE bookmarking and tagging your URL, you can then write a journal or story submission about them. On a related note, journals are now directly submittable to Slashdot editors as well.
The point is not to replace sites like del.icio.us, but to use a system similar to del.icio.us as an alternative way of submitting links/stories/etc to the editors for posting. If you want to use
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The children of immigrants always speak English. The immigrants themselves may have trouble with English, but that's because it's very hard to learn a foreign language past a certain age(Did your parents take a foreign language during high school or college? Do they still remember it?), but the children, raised here, will know English better than the native language of wherever their parents come from. Always. My Latin teacher's father came here from Italy(during the times when Italian immigrants were much more common, and Italians and the Irish took the place Mexicans take today), and he only knows Italian from the things he's tried to teach himself from textbooks. I'll bet one of your ancestors came here from another country, or are you a Native American? The US has always been a nation of immigrants, and as much as you looked to find the one quote from a Founding Father which can be strained in a hugely incorrect way to be anti-immigrant, we have always been a nation of immigration(although the people have always hated immigrants, for the same reasons even) Don't like immigration? I'd say to go to somewhere else, but then you'd be an immigrant there. Immigrants didn't destabilize the US economy any of the other times, they won't destabilize it today.
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I'd prefer a much simpler UI. The "Related Links" box at the bottom of the right column of boxes next to the story summary, should have checkboxes next to each "related link". And a text field into which URLs can be drag/dropped, copy/pasted or typed.
A really nice UI would add a "Slashdot bookmark" item to the right-click context menu, so I can add any link to that box by right-clicking and selecting that item.
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So that, they'll know we want THAT to go to the frontpage... Best of two worlds!! We could have in the frontpage the "omelette" (if you have read the FAQ you know what i'm talking about), and at the same time, the most tagged stories/bookmarks from readers!
I for one will stick with StumbleUpon for socail bookmarks. http://www.stumbleupon.com/
>> Don't like immigration? I'd say to go to somewhere else, but then you'd be an immigrant there. Immigrants didn't destabilize the US economy any of the other times, they won't destabilize it today. That's all fine, but the OP wasn't talking about immigration. He was talking about *illegal* immigration, with not only breaking the law to get over the border, but working under the table for illegally low wages. Essentially there is now a dual economy in the U.S. One for citizens and one for illegals. You have all kinds of taxes and regulation to hire a citizen, but there are no regulations or taxes to hire an illegal alien. In fact since it's all in civil law, there is no jail time either, just a fine that you can avoid with ever-changing corporations and sub sub contracting. Also, since the country is so litigation happy, it makes a lot of sense to hire someone who could never sue you because it's illegal for them to be working for you in the first place.
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Actually del.icio.us does interoperate with Safari, albeit indirectly. They provide two javascript links, one to "Post to delicious," and another to visit "My delicious" that you can put in the address bar. Except for not having a hotkey to activate it (like Command-D), it's very convenient. I've never used the public/private bookmarks features, but the whole thing works very well for sharing my bookmarks between my Macs at home and my work PC, without leaving anything on the work PC besides a cookie and a few additions to the toolbar.
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It would be sla.shdo.ts (hoping Transylvania exists ? ;))
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Oh if only google would implement a service like this for all of us
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1.You don't have only tinypic(there dozens more) and you can even tag your images.
2.I never said there should be only one forum,one host,one news site.I like diversity in the web(as long its useful).
3.I can share share my bookmarks by Posting a Thread Titled 'My Bookmarks' or "share your Bookmarks" on a forum.
4.Blogs don't have much more funtionality then a moderated forum,where you post your own stories. And you have even less features them a Real forum.
5.Dynamic tagging system or ratings doesn't stop bots or ignorant masses to
assign their garbage top score.And don't forget Advertisement.
6.I can access all of my bookmarks if i use them from a network drive or my website hosted on some server.
You can make a freewebs page in few seconds and post your bookmarks there.
7.Social aspects of bookmarks
"and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you. You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office."
There MUCH BETTER venues and options to Meet Other People.IRC Instant Messaging VOIP FORUMs WebChat/websites and Newsgroups are way superior then you pitiful bookmarklets sharing site.
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs
exclusively.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? "
Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities.
9."Nothing worth developing can be accomplsihed simply by tweaking a forum script."
EXactly.
ironic to see you posting this on the site while "it was never designed to be an all-purpose back-end solution".
1.There similar sites to compete with tinypic.com for example,I just put them in the same range as Flickr.com.
"A messageboard thread won't let you rank the bookmarks, or group them, or browse them by tags, or allow slashdot editors to refer to them for news submissions."
A modified forum script would have these features.Its not that significant:
I seen many forums with karma systems,
Moderator only forums(with submission queues,etc.)
See http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ for example.
"assign their garbage top score" ex:
A group of harry potter fans would rank their Snape photos Top score.
Advertisement:Think of spam.Links advertised by bots.
" I guess the social aspect of Slashdot is useless" Its inferior.Even a normal forum has a community which is visible by member lists,thread archives,lists of subforums,and easy access to all features/threads for members.
Slashdot is overhyped news blog,run by OSDN.The only aspects i see here is data sharing.
"Del.icio.us gives people topics to talk about, just like Slashdot does, that's the whole point of having these sites."
It doesn't look superflous to have all these features in your forum and del.ici.ous? Do your forum makes it forbidden posting pictures? Do they prevent discusion on pictures?
You might as well argue that image IMs are unnecessary because you can just post images to an angelfire page or FTP, or that radios in cars are a bad idea because they're "inferior" to your home stereo system.
Image IMs are different from IRC DCC sends? Does forum prevent you from sending IM IN The Forum,COntaining these same images?
Did i mention you don't need a proprietary network to run those forum?
Do the images lose quality or "social aspect" just because they sent from a forum,email,or IRC DCC feature?
Everything on the web runs of different CMS,Except
static pages.Forum is a Public CMS,Database driven:All people who have permission can add content.
Different aspects:
"Professional web admins don't use an online forum as a CMS"
I said it is database driven,not that it better then a Dedicated CMS.
Now if they can only add import to google-bookmarks