It seems that everyone wants to by MySpace these days, or at least harness the customer-love (read: clickthroughs and eyeballs?) of social networking software. Del.icio.us today announced another increasingly sophisticated iteration of its new social function. Now people who've added you to their contacts list will be visible from your account, etc. Is this how RSS is going to end up being adopted, through means like this? I am perfectly capable of subscribing to peoples' bookmark feeds amongst my many feed subscriptions - but to be honest I almost never look at anything but my archive and other peoples' by tag in del.icio.us. Do readers here foresee themselves using del.icio.us as a social networking app? Perhaps they are getting ready for the hordes of new users that will come in with full Yahoo promotion.
Raytheon employees love to tag URLs
Say what you will about evil-empire death merchants Raytheon - it turns out they
are a great example of corporate web taggers! David Weinberger points today to
a fascinating wiki for the Taxonomy Community of Practice where there's a great article about Raytheon's practice of letting employees submit URLs with tags that company
librarians quickly vet with an easy hand and then add to search results. They love it! Company librarian
explains after the jump.
Del.icio.us to add private bookmarks and more
Here's something that will make a lot of potential new users more comfortable, the tagging/social bookmarking service del.icio.us says they'll be rolling out the ability to mark some items
private next week. Presumably the vast majority of things bookmarked will still be social, so users won't
miss out on the network effect and search power.
Amongst other changes underway at del.icio.us is that the new URL info page that displays tags given a certain URL has added a "related items" feature - just like a couple of folks were showing off over the last few days via their use of the del.icio.us API.
Amongst other changes underway at del.icio.us is that the new URL info page that displays tags given a certain URL has added a "related items" feature - just like a couple of folks were showing off over the last few days via their use of the del.icio.us API.
Onlywire bookmarks well into multiple systems
Just found Onlywire over at eHub and I am
impressed. They have figured out how to very easily bookmark URLs into up to 15 different social bookmarking
services at once. Very smooth interface, very easy to use. I'm excited to be able to tag pages into del.icio.us for the community of users there and into Furl
for the page cache feature and more. The downside? You do miss out on any unique features of the tagging
interface of any of these individual systems, like the AJAX tagging and recommended tags of del.icio.us. That's a
shame, but Onlywire has an API so maybe some one will build something that mitigates this loss.
Listmixer is perishable bookmarks
I think I like this new app Listmixer. Its bookmarklet saves a URL for me,
lets me tag and describe it - and if 30 days ever go by without my looking at it, the link is deleted from my
account. I can hover over any of the links and get a menu for tagging them into del.icio.us, furl, newsvine,
reddit, simpy, blinklist and more. And I can grab my archive by RSS.
The functionality is smooth. The look is humorously unpretentious. I'm not quite sure how I'll fit this into my work flow yet, but I have a hunch it's going to find its place. Sites I'd like to subscribe to, for example, would be great to just tag into a temporary archive. If I haven't followed through in 30 days, then I probably wasn't that interested in the first place! It's the handy work of Sid Stewart and I discovered it via eHub.
The functionality is smooth. The look is humorously unpretentious. I'm not quite sure how I'll fit this into my work flow yet, but I have a hunch it's going to find its place. Sites I'd like to subscribe to, for example, would be great to just tag into a temporary archive. If I haven't followed through in 30 days, then I probably wasn't that interested in the first place! It's the handy work of Sid Stewart and I discovered it via eHub.
Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions?
Sometimes I'd like to try out new Social Bookmarking services, like one that just went public called Ma.gnolia. But if I go and try them out, will I lose everything I tag into that
archive if I decide to remain with del.icio.us - where the bulk of my bookmarks now
reside?
What's at issue here on one
level is a single sentence: "Our import feature has been turned off for a few days while we fix some bugs.
Sorry!" How long has that been what you get when you click "import" in del.icio.us? For
almost as long as I can remember.
That seems pretty disingenuous. The fact that the option remains on the screen, just crossed out, seems lazy. The fact that del.icio.us isn't listed on the Yahoo Properties Help Page at all seems downright apathetic or worse. (Neither is Flickr or Upcoming, you'll notice.)
What's at issue here on one
level is a single sentence: "Our import feature has been turned off for a few days while we fix some bugs.
Sorry!" How long has that been what you get when you click "import" in del.icio.us? For
almost as long as I can remember.That seems pretty disingenuous. The fact that the option remains on the screen, just crossed out, seems lazy. The fact that del.icio.us isn't listed on the Yahoo Properties Help Page at all seems downright apathetic or worse. (Neither is Flickr or Upcoming, you'll notice.)
Continue reading Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions?
Yahoo gobbles up del.icio.us
Well, now, isn't this fascinating — Yahoo acquired del.icio.us. Wonder if this means I'll be able to stop using the combination bookmarklet for del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 at some point and get one bookmarklet to rule them all. Automagic sync between del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 bookmarks? Or will the services get merged somehow? Anybody have predictions they want to throw down?
Diggdot.us mashes social news
Want to get the best of digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us/popular all in one place? You're in luck! Check out diggdot.us for this particular blend of social news mashup.
[Thx, Jason!]
del.icio.us redesign
The new look for del.icio.us splits the interface in half, placing
popular links on the right and recent links on the left. Great… what's next? :)
[Via Tech Crunch]
Blummy is yummy
So I've lamented before about the egregiously
overflowing mess that is my browser toolbar, as a result of all of the irresistable web services and their
bookmarklets. Blummy addresses that problem quite admirably by collapsing a number
of bookmarklets into one bookmarklet (or blummlets, as it were) to rule them all. You can configure your blummlet with
a number of preset options, or create your own. It allows you to do very sweet time-saving little tricks like post a
page to del.icio.us and then send it via Gmail from one contained interface that
expands when you click the Blummy bookmarklet. It's a bookmarklet aggregator. It's the Flickr of bookmarklets, yo.
[Via Emily Chang]
Yahoo news search integrates blogs and Flickr results
Wow, pretty sweet — Yahoo is integrating blog
search with their news search, as well as adding Flickr photos and My Web 2.0 results into the mix. This brings together user-created
and mainstream media in a way that's unprecedented, totally beating Google to the punch on this one as well as
leveraging the goodness of both Flickr and My Web 2.0. From the announcement, we should expecting yet further
integration of community created content (podcasts, e.g.) in the future.
The index only includes a subset of the larger blogosphere (those that are included in the My Yahoo feed directory), but will grow to ideally
include everything from the blo.gs ping stream. The interface doesn't quite put blogs on equal footing visually —
they're off in a sidebar while the regular news search results are in the main pane — but I actually sort of like
the way this is done. It's not going to alienate mainstream users who want to stick with their traditional MSM sources,
but will provide a still visible alternative. Social software nerds (raising hand), bloggers, and others already kicking
back with their second (or fifth…) cocktail in the cluetrain dining car can just click on through to the
interface that shows blog search results in the main pane and Flickr results in the sidebar at right (here's an example search on Web 2.0).
I dig it. For once, I only have one small request — I want a way to make the blog news search interface my
default for news search, so I don't have to click through each time (with option to click through the the mainstream
search results).
