YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
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YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
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Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#2Most people I talk to (outside of the Web2.0 crowd) have never even heard of social bookmarking, so I think there is a great opportunity here waiting to be discovered. I want to hear from you guys what you like and dislike about what's available today. Especially from those of you who don't use an online bookmarking web site. Why don't you?
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#3Most people I talk to (outside of the Web2.0 crowd) have never even heard of social bookmarking, so I think there is a great opportunity here waiting to be discovered. I want to hear from you guys what you like and dislike about what's available today. Especially from those of you who don't use an online bookmarking web site. Why don't you?
I use del.icio.us, it's good for what I need. Would be nice if I can set it so that all my bookmarks are private so I don't have to check that litle checkbox everytime. I don't use public bookmarks.
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#4I use the new one in the Google Toolbar as it's a single button press (star) to add it. No dialogs or anything. I can't be bothered with tagging or confirmation dialogs. I just want to press a single button and have the browser remember it.
http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/static.py?page=features.html&v=3
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#5I don't use social bookmarking, it has never appealed to me. Browser based bookmarking has always been sufficient for me, and I don't spend much time "browsing" the internet, I am typically trying to find something specific, so a general search engine is usually sufficient for me.
Some features that might make me more likely to use social bookmarking: OpenID accounts, really simple and good search, RSS for tags (no doubt this already exists), syncing with my bookmarks on all the browsers I use and aggregating them in one spot, letting me save my bookmarks to a bookmark file readable by Firefox... thats all of the top of my head, although fundamentally I don't think they fit in my life flow :/
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#6Most people I talk to (outside of the Web2.0 crowd) have never even heard of social bookmarking, so I think there is a great opportunity here waiting to be discovered. I want to hear from you guys what you like and dislike about what's available today. Especially from those of you who don't use an online bookmarking web site. Why don't you?
Browser autocompletion is fine for me. 99% of my web visits are the same 7 sites (Reddit, News.YC, LiveJournal, GMail, PlanWorld, Yahoo Finance, and diffle.com), so there's a good chance whatever I'm looking for will popup with one keystroke.
If I do need to look something up, I usually just Google for it. I'll usually remember at least one phrase from the article, so I'll stick it in quotes and it pops right up.
I'm not one of those people who absolutely must be able to return to anything I've found. I figure that websites - like nearly everything else - are ephemeral, so if I can't remember one, it must not have been very important to begin with.
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#7I use the new one in the Google Toolbar as it's a single button press (star) to add it. No dialogs or anything. I can't be bothered with tagging or confirmation dialogs. I just want to press a single button and have the browser remember it. http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/static.py?page=features.html&v=3
Thanks. So, I understand the convenience of the one click, but how do you organize your bookmarks? Isn't it hard to find things when you it's a long list? Especially if you have many bookmarks?
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#8I use the new one in the Google Toolbar as it's a single button press (star) to add it. No dialogs or anything. I can't be bothered with tagging or confirmation dialogs. I just want to press a single button and have the browser remember it. http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/static.py?page=features.html&v=3
Thanks. So, I understand the convenience of the one click, but how do you organize your bookmarks? Isn't it hard to find things when you it's a long list? Especially if you have many bookmarks?
I use my bookmarks as a "read later" list. So I remove them once I have read them.
By the way Google does let you also tag (label) the bookmark. It's just that you have to press a different button to do that. Supporting both methods like Google does would work pretty well.
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#9how far are you into the planning of this application? and where are you based?
i've been somewhat following this space. i agree there is lots of room for improvement, and i even think it's not saturated yet, that is if you have a flexible definition of a bookmarking application.
Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking
#10how far are you into the planning of this application? and where are you based? i've been somewhat following this space. i agree there is lots of room for improvement, and i even think it's not saturated yet, that is if you have a flexible definition of a bookmarking application.
I'm close to releasing a private beta in a few weeks; but I'm flexible with the concept and will continue to tweak it until it fits. I'm based in Redwood City, CA. I'll drop you an email to discuss this further.