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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Recently we've added a new bookmark function that logged in users can use to maintain public lists of URLs for tagging and sharing with the world. You can read the bookmark faq to answer a few specific questions, check out the global bookmark lists that can be tagged, journaled over, or submitted as stories. Read on for notes on what we're planning for this.

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.

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  1. Let me be the first by eclectro · · Score: 4, Funny


    to say that I'm glad dupe and spell check have been added.

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    1. Re:Let me be the first by IAmTheDave · · Score: 5, Funny

      to say that I'm glad dupe and spel check have been added.

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  2. Google Bookmarks by neoform · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  3. Redundancy by SarekOfVulcan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.

    1. Re:Redundancy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because Slashdot's got a midly less annoying domain name?

  4. Great New Idea! by gasmonso · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is absolutely del.icio.us!!

    http://religiousfreaks.com/
    1. Re:Great New Idea! by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Exactly, all this is doing is splitting the online bookmarks sharing market into even smaller and smaller silos, subtracting value from end users. Why doesn't Slashdot just work out a deal with del.icio.us so that Slashdotters can mark the fact that they have a Slashdot account in their del.icio.us preferences, and then have those bookmarks be minable by the Slashdot editors. That way it would be easier for the Slashdot editors, better for del.icio.us, and would actually add value to the Internet instead of further splintering the market.

    2. Re:Great New Idea! by pHatidic · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Your analogy is broken because Firefox doesn't take advantage of the network effect. The more people that use a particular online social bookmarking service, the more value there is for each user. I'm not saying there shouldn't be different approaches, but it would be nice if there was some sort of standard so that they could interoperate with each other.

  5. Benefits by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  6. This needs a better name. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we should call it Sla.shd.ot.

  7. Re:Blog ? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 5, Funny
    How is it too different from a blog thingee ?

    Bah, you don't get it, do you? This is all about MINDSHARE! After Mindshare you get Innovation. And, after Innovation, you get Web Traffic. And, after Web Traffic, you get Dupes!

    It may not make sense now, but one day, young grasshopper, you will understand. Now, where did I put my percosets?

  8. Suggestion by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mentioning digg here isn't trolling or flamebait. But you could have provided a constructive comparison of /.'s new bookmarks to digg. Example:

    * Digg links gain popularity through votes. It seems /.'s links are like del.icio.us. The more people add a link the more popular it'll be.
    * 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.

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  9. Top 10 bookmarks by FerretFrottage · · Score: 4, Funny

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  10. Wait a minute... by Cytlid · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...you mean there's other websites? Besides Slashdot? I've been doing this since 1999 and noone let me know?!?!

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  11. Re:I have an idea by Laur · · Score: 3, Informative
    In your date formats, include the year.

    You can change this in your preferences, under "Homepage." I use the "Sun Mar 21, '99 10:00 AM" setting myself.

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  12. Feature request by caffeination · · Score: 3, Insightful
    How about giving us the ability to remove and/or modify in any way the tags we've already made. These aren't ephemeral comments that go away after a day or two, they're long term displays.

    Give us some power over our own work please. Some of us work like Slashdot editors, with a tendency toward dupes and typos.

  13. Usefullness/Feature Request... by dcowart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

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