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Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

#31

Any way to import my existing bookmarks from del.icio.us (and clean up the tags)? Seems like that's one of your biggest barriers to adoption, at least from people who already use a social bookmarking site. The app looks great, nice and clean, but I already have hundreds of bookmarks in del.icio.us, and don't want to start from scratch somewhere else.

Point taken. Thanks for feedback. Importer will be available soon.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

#32
Very interesting, and good job there! I was contemplating doing something similar, but got diverted with other things. Would you share a bit more about your experience with using dbpedia?

Are you querying dbpedia for the tags? If not, how deep do your tags cross-link?

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

#33
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes and no. i know what all the words mean, but when i read it and reread it, i didn't get an idea of what's actually unique about the site.

I see your point. I’ll tell my marketing team to get to work on that ;)

I think the idea is not to explain what the sites does but the problem it solves. the details of how it solves the problem are less interesting.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

#35
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Great concept! Certainly does help to structure tags that can grow out of control in any tag cloud. I'm wondering if you've considered building this as an API or dev library so that it can be used by developers not just for bookmarking but also for tagging in general. But then, where's the money in that, eh? (^_^)

Thanks for feedback. Right now RSS feeds are available for every page, but I definitely plan to make API in the future, and make it as open as possible for developers.

That's great to hear! All the best to Faviki!

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

#39
how will you handle homonyms like 'bow':

from wikipedia:

# bow - To bend forward at the waist in respect (e.g. "bow down") # bow - the front of the ship (e.g. "bow and stern") # bow - the weapon which shoots arrows (e.g. "bow and arrow") # bow - a kind of tied ribbon (e.g. bow on a present, a bowtie) # bow - to bend outward at the sides (e.g. a "bow-legged" cowboy)

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