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Social bookmarking + recomendations


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#1 emerson

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 12:21 PM


I'm hoping someone might be able to toss a link my way. I could swear that I've heard of a fair number of online bookmark tagging and sharing sites which also scanned through the bookmark collections on a regular basis, and then offered suggestions to individual users about new sites from people who shared a certain percentage of interests or stored bookmarks, moved up or down depending upon the popularity of the potential suggested link in question.

But, I'm not seeing anything like that anywhere. From those I've looked at, furl comes closest. But it's still nowhere near as automated as I was hoping to find. I really suspect that I'm just missing some feature in plain view on many of these sites. It seems like a fairly useful feature, and it's certainly not anything which would require much of a time investment to write. Even off the server, I'd assume a weekend would be enough time to put something like that together for a site like del.icio.us which has a fairly accessible interface library. But...I really don't want to give up a weekend if it's already sitting in some option menu somewhere. Any suggestions of social bookmarking sites which offer something like that?

#2 Live Forever

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 08:46 PM

There are several that do what I think you are talking about:

http://del.icio.us/ (probably the best known one)
http://www.furl.net/
http://www.filangy.com/
http://www.rawsugar.com/
http://bookmark4u.sourceforge.net/
http://buddymarks.com/
http://www.onlywire.com/ (allows you to post to a lot of the other ones)

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#3 nihilist

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 08:04 AM

digg.com
fark.com
reddit.com
popurls.com

#4 emerson

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 08:18 AM

In both good news for me, and bad, none of them are offering up quite what I'm looking for with directly targeted recommendations. Oddly, I'm actually kind of looking forward to having to whip it up myself. The del.icio.us api at least looks fun to play around with, given a good excuse to divert myself from "serious coding".

And thanks for the links! I knew of some of those, but the rest came at me like an unexpected blur of newness.

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 03:16 PM

I use del.icio.us

they seem to be gearing up into something like you explained in the first post...right now there are programs for del.icio.us that you can get that will do it, but it is not built in functionality yet (think of it as a firefox extension)

With the current setup, you can tag people and/or subjects to keep up with them, but you have to tell it which ones

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 04:05 PM

stumbleupon.com
spurl.net

#7 maestro949

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 04:46 PM

stumbleupon is pretty cool. If you like a particular topic, e.g. science & tech, you can just keep clicking the stumble button and it will randomly pick one of the top rated sites in the category. A great way to fill those little windows of time between... < insert whatever consomes your time here>

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#8 Athanasios

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 05:20 PM

Here are a list of popular del.icio.us programs if you are interested:

http://tinyurl.com/rjkrr




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