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Post by diroussel »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #88
Scarblac wrote: post #71

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Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.

Yes I did this too. I found some great links this way. I was crawling a web of links.

Also I bookmarked some random mp3 files and used the same tag for all of them. Then o took the RSS feed for that tag and subscribed to it in iTunes and then I had a custom podcast I could add to anytime just by adding a new bookmark.

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Post by dvtrn »

0-O-0 wrote: post #68
conjectures wrote: post #60

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This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

It never went away. If you want experience similar to Google Reader - there are several clients (but better ones require paid subscription). RSS feeds are still there.

RSS feeds are still there

And so heavily truncated, spoiling the point in many (but not all) cases of having an RSS feed entirely.

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Post by tarunkotia »

organsnyder wrote: post #130
nikhizzle wrote: post #121

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Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each: 1. Niceness - a coworker decided to just randomly not show up for work (not WFH, just disappear occasionally). I took it to management, and was told we don’t want to hurt his feelings. 2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo…

Hard to tell without context, but that first example could easily be a positive: not only is extending grace to employees ethically a good thing to do, but it can also lead to increased productivity in the long run. Of course, if the employee was completely MIA for an extended period of time and no effort was made to contact them, that's neither ethical nor productive.

The point of being nice it seems that people were not repremended for bad behavior. That’s not a good thing for the culture because it’s demotivating for people who do things the right way as there is very little incentive in doing so.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by kerkeslager »

bE9a3S5So8igd3 wrote: post #160
kerkeslager wrote: post #147

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> Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly. Delicious turning into Twitter or Reddit would have been a real loss. "But it doesn't scale!" is practically a mantra for HN, but scalability is fairly low on the list of values for me. I'd rather have interesting websites than big websites, and I'd rathe…

Now with the idear of delicious coming back, your comment makes me consider all the good low-to-mid scale shit we've lost over time. In ~ 2008 it seems like there were just more fun/interesting sites around. Maybe I was just in an exploratory phase - late teens - and was discovering new things often. Or maybe the barrier to entry today, in terms of design/polish/product is weirdly high, and has pushed out the seeker-…

The barrier to entry for most interesting things is The barrier to entry for making money is a different thing.

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Post by b4ke »

ghaff wrote: post #156
glenstein wrote: post #54

Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly. I like to think there was an alternate reality where Yahoo didn't run itself into the ground, and took its properties: delicious, flickr, tumblr, its massive userbase across fantasy sports, groups, news, messenger, geocities and answers, its email service,…

Part of me agrees with you. Part of me thinks Yahoo largely bet on all the wrong horses. Users mostly didn't want directories of web sites and portals (which couldn't really scale anyway), they wanted search. Microblogging (and individual blogging sites generally) fell out of favor. I consider it a minor miracle that Blogger is still around and Google even did a minor and only somewhat regressive update recently. Mos…

I doubt long.... i attempted to create a new account the other day. it was a failed affair.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by Sodman »

Kunix wrote: post #108
tomduncalf wrote: post #43

Haha I swear I read something on here the other day about how trends are circular and it won't be long until del.icio.us is back, and here we are! I seem to recall del.icio.us being a great discovery tool, as well as a great way to catalog your bookmarks (another discovery tool that was great for a while was Stumbleupon). Will be interesting to see if anyone can bring back some of that "old school" curated/personal d…

I loved StumbleUpon, and I find myself missing a discovery tool like that one. Reddit and other websites give me the impression of running in loop. If anyone has good discovery tools to recommend!

As a college student outside of the US who had never heard of YCombinator, StumbleUpon was how I discovered HN. Now I work at startups and can't imagine going back to a bigger company. Strange to think that in a world where StumbleUpon didn't exist, I may still be working at BigCorp.

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Post by kome »

smolder wrote: post #155
millstone wrote: post #26

This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.

Old school is web 2.0? I'm really old, I guess.

ahaha! i was thinking the same...

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Post by pedrocx486 »

_the_inflator wrote: post #67
millstone wrote: post #26

This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.

Yep, I have fond memories of delicious (they featured a browser add-on to ease the bookmarking process). Delicious, Digg, Technorati, StumbledUpon - those were the days!

I'm still sad at how Technorati ended, loved the service back then.

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Post by onemoresoop »

mercer wrote: post #148
skinnymuch wrote: post #145

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People aren’t remembering the negatives to these. I still use a normal style forum sometimes. Being single threaded is annoying. People keep asking the same questions or repeating the same stuff again and again. No fault of their own. Discovery in a single thread is crazy hard. Finding what you’re looking for in a thread can take a long time. Some one may ask a question your interested in knowing the answer to, but f…

> I have a feeling grass is greener on the other side and people in either case. That's a bit reductive, perhaps. The way I see it, different styles of 'forums' or 'communities' can foster different types of interactions. it's a bit like how in the 'real world' we might have a gathering where everyone sits in a circle, or small separate tables, or a bar area, or a conference-style 'lecture + hallway-track', etc. each…

HN is a perfect exampele of this. With its own peculiarities and all
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