Comments on: Social bookmarking goes mainstream (or attempts to anyway)

By: michaelzimmer.org » Blog Archive » Social Bookmarking in Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:12:02 +0000

[...] In practice, this means your search results with MyWeb 2.0 will be very different than those you get with Yahoo, Google or any other major engine. It also means that your search results will change over time, as your personal web and those of your community expand. Walther says these changes should lead to more relevant results—but that depends largely on the “quality” of members of your community and the web pages they choose to add to your communal web. It will be interesting to see how the millions of “mainstream” web users that utilize Yahoo might embrace social bookmarking and tagging – activities that have till now been limited mostly to, as Ezster Hargittai puts it, “super-savvy Web users” on sites such as Flickr or del.icio.us. [...]

By: canadienne

canadienne — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:56:39 +0000

Yahoo is not the first tagging app to allow for private bookmarks. I've been using simpy for a couple of months precisely because of that -- I just wanted an external set of annotated bookmarks, I didn't want to make them viewable by all.

By: eszter

eszter — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:55:50 +0000

Abby – I did provide that kind of feedback already re Yahoo 360, but I’ll be sure to add it for this service as well.

Jon G – Yup, they still have a ways to go to make this an appealing and user-friendly service.

By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:46:32 +0000

Thanks, Eszter, for the pointer!

The moment I discovered del.icio.us, I predicted that it will be more popular than blogging.

YaWeb2.0 can copy del.icio.us bookmarks via RSS—but as “feed” dpesn’t mean “collection”, it will only copy your most recent ones. It scuttles the note (which many people don’t leverage in delicious). And like the deli, it also has a 255-character limitation on the note, which is reasonable (~30 words), but still a bit arbitrary.

Also, the URLs are atrocious-looking, the navigation is clumsy, it’s not clear how they’re going to scale the text when more than 10 people bookmark the same item.

It does show that anyone can develop social bookmarking; it ain’t rocket science. Josh has to move pretty fast to keep innovating del.icio.us.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:56:11 +0000

It’d be handy if social bookmarking were combined with Amazon’s search inside the book.

Then it’d be easy to find “the good parts” of many, many books.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:38:02 +0000

Well, I hope that you’ll provide feedback telling them to provide different levels and types of communities for sharing purposes.