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YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking

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Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Now you mention it, I am not a big fan of the "flat list" organizing principle, as popularized by iTunes. If you can think of anything to better organize bookmarks, you might be on to something. However, I also usually prefer to keep them on my local computer and not to share them with the world.

"I also usually prefer to keep them on my local computer and not to share them with the world". You could keep it online, without sharing it with the world. This should be done with a transparent encryption scheme. The server stores only the encrypted version of your list. Your browser decrypts it and shows it to you, wherever you are. This should work for anything where searching/indexing is not needed. Sadly, this would remove the possibility of targeted advertising, which is the main (only?) source of profit these days.

Re: YCNewsers: Help me create better online bookmarking

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Most 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 my own site as a start-page, where I store a list of links. I put up a relatively simple interface for adding-removing links, plus some extra visuals. http://www.lkozma.net/links
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