What I like about delicious is what I call the “Being John Malkovich” part. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/

Do you remember that movie? Wasn’t such a good movie, but the idea was brilliant.

I think delicious lets to do that; up to a degree of course. If you look at John Udell’s subscriptions, you know what he is going to read; and if you know what he is going to read, you can guess what he is going to write about. A portal to John Udell’s mind. Now try to beat that. I would have killed to take a look at an Umber geek’s bookmarks or installed programs list. delicious is an absolute favorite.

I like it when people tell me my ideas are silly; most ideas are. (How else would I know when I hit a good one?) Sorry if you took it wrong.

“You are saving links that are potentially interesting for you in the future.”

No, that’s not what I said. I said “will I use this again”. “Interesting” and “will use” are disjoint sets. I can see how if you were selecting for “interesting” that it would fail at “useful in the future”. You have to separate these concepts in your mind.

“It probably also depends on what/how you’re working. I work for a websearch company …”

Well, all those apply to me, too, but I seem to delicious an order of magnitude fewer bookmarks.

Perhaps my first comment here is relevant. I think of all things (including blog postings and ideas in my own head) as fundamentally useless, unless they can prove otherwise. “Interesting” is not a high enough threshold — I have interesting ideas all day. You’re a collector. :-)

I have to say del.icio.us has become a horrible tool for refinding things I have bookmarked. I have over 2600 bookmarks and gobs of tags, but del.icio.us has not provided the ability to get back to things I know I have saved there.

I moved my corpus to Ma.gnolia and have not had this problem. If I did not tag something with a term I am trying to use for recall it may not find it, but often it also searches in the document (it saves a copy as del.icio.us does not) and can find a match that way and it looks in other’s tags.

ClipMarks has a similar solution.

There is a great need for a solution to your problem to be implemented, the solution for tag healing is well known, it takes server resources, which has limited its implementation so far. Most of the services have built something that can adequately perform this tag healing (searching for social bookmarking and I only put folksonomy and tagging, but normally also put social bookmarking).

The problem is not with social bookmarking being a wrong tool, it is the tools have not grown-up. Most tools have followed del.icio.us, but it is not the leader for functionality any more and has not been for 18 months or more. Del.icio.us has a large mass of people using it, which should not be confused for it being the best tool. Other social bookmarking tool do get this stuff right and are improving greatly.

That’s the next blog I think needs to be written - how the blogosphere is entirely fractured into the tiniest little communities and there is no way to have reasonable discussions any longer - comments on blogs are just broken - I think I saw a blog about that actually…nothing is ever new : http://javathink.blogspot.com/2006/09/research-it-first.html

The other sharing I do is with an automated “buzz” generator that I set up for my company, which is the same thing as sharing for friends, except I tag for a Yahoo! Pipe which aggregates links and displays them via RSS on our home page.

Great post!

Anyway, I use http://favowitz.com/ for my bookmarks and I find it really helpful and easy to use.

wget -rNpk –execute robots=off -U “Mozilla/5.001 (windows; U; NT4.0; en-us) Gecko/25250101″