Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#1

Post by twism » Wed, Aug 01, 2007, 9:33 PM UTC

I know, i know...they are a tons of social bookmarking sites out now, but they all seem cluttered, slow, and confusing to me. Im trying to get a feel of what features poeple like, dislike or they would like to see implemented.

News.YC is sort of a bookmarking app (at least the way I use it).It works great for me because its fast, has a clean layout and it just so happens to deal with web pages I would typically bookmark. but the internet isnt all about startups and entrepreneurship.

Any input would be great. Thanks

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#2

Post by Jd » Wed, Aug 01, 2007, 10:50 PM UTC

One word: community.

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#3

Post by twism » Wed, Aug 01, 2007, 11:52 PM UTC

Jd wrote: post #2

One word: community.

Thats a given... I was wondering along the lines of technical features.

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#4

Post by palish » Thu, Aug 02, 2007, 12:11 AM UTC

twism wrote: post #3

Jd wrote: post #2

One word: community.

Thats a given... I was wondering along the lines of technical features.

Well, you have to enable a community through the technical features, is the thing. The community has to be intrinsic in the tech.

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#5

Post by paulgb » Thu, Aug 02, 2007, 1:20 AM UTC

Jd wrote: post #2

One word: community.

Just don't forget the users who could care less about the community and just want a place to put save bookmarks. Google Bookmarks is good for this, but I like to categorize my bookmarks in bulk and Google does not work well for this.

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#6

Post by ragav » Thu, Aug 02, 2007, 3:47 AM UTC

Waleed asked something similar recently.

See this thread for some ideas : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31244

I think he posted a summary of sorts here http://selfdebugging.com/

Perhaps you should ping him and see if you can join up ;-)

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#7

Post by nreece » Thu, Aug 02, 2007, 9:02 AM UTC

CoReap is one service that I've started using more frequently off-late. It combines social search and social bookmarking with a no-frills browser sidebar for bookmarks management and a browser extension for social search integration. See: http://www.coreap.com

Re: Ask News.Yc: What is social bookmarking lacking today?

#8

Post by ed » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 5:36 AM UTC

The first suggestion that comes to mind is to automate as much of the process as possible. I rarely use social bookmarking sites because, 1) they waste more time than they save, and 2) I don't have the patience to sort through the details of URL submission.

See if you can develop a heuristic to determine a user's favorite sites based on their browsing patterns. Convolve that into a set of browser extensions and expose the user data through a web front-end. Make personalized suggestions based on user history. Auto-generate site summaries by looking at page markup (size of fonts, page title), that sort of thing.