Comments on: Directed social bookmarking

By: Social network modalities « Chris Swan’s Weblog

Social network modalities « Chris Swan’s Weblog — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:51:46 +0000

[...] The classic 1-2-1 pattern. This is what happens with instant messages (IMs), direct messages (DMs) and to an extent good old email (though the use of distribution lists fogs the picture a little there). It’s also what happens with the @name convention in microblogging or something like directed social bookmarking. [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:36:29 +0000

In our (albeit) small firm, we use diigo to share links which works extremely well. I haven’t used del.icio.us in a couple years (having switched to Diigo) so perhaps del.icio.us has all the same features and more, but what initially drew me/us to Diigo was the ability to share to groups, public/private bookmarking, and especially annotation – sticky notes and highlighting: useful just for yourself, but really comes into its own when sharing bookmarks and links in this way as you can be more specific as to why you are sharing/what you find interesting. Very powerful stuff…that said when I tried to drive adoption at my old big investment bank people (outside IT, and over the age of 23) looked at me like I was crazy and/or ignored it…

By: What happens when we all have our own queue(s)? « Chris Swan’s Weblog

What happens when we all have our own queue(s)? « Chris Swan’s Weblog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:40 +0000

[...] happens when we all have our own queue(s)? 20Nov08 My experiment wi, th directed social bookmarking seems to be working out well, though I still don’t have an appropriate feedback vehicle. [...]

By: Chris Swan

Chris Swan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:49:50 +0000

Hugh just pointed me to http://delicious.com/help/faq#inbox with a note “Looks like Chris has had his wish granted”.

I’m not sure that’s true, as there’s still no feedback mechanism. All that’s happened is the for:name system has been rebranded (in a way that will most likely get it blocked by many corporate web filters).

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:33:36 +0000

You might want to take a look at Reddit, they’re “going open” as well!

I think with the issue of the ‘attention economy’ one does not always have time to feedback comments straight away – by looking at the tag lifecycle of links one gets other pertinent data that can form the basis of an automated feedback system as I alluded to above.

By: Chris Swan

Chris Swan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:53:41 +0000

I’ve just stumbled across the ‘for:name’ tagging system in del.icio.us, which almost but not quite does what I was trying to achieve (and still lacks a feedback mechanism). The problem here is that it assumes symetric del.icio.us usage/membership, it assumes that I know my friends del.icio.us usernames. Once again this seems to be an instance of social networks being isolated (in addition to being wide and shallow).

By: Ed Daniel

Ed Daniel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:36:58 +0000

Metrics is one approach, try scoring/monitoring tags per user, group, community – i.e. if you sent me a link and i found it insightful i’d probably add some tags of my own thus the tag collection lifecycle is an interesting feedback system unto itself though I understand it doesn’t directly address your challenge though it’s a simple case of mashing up the del.icio.us urls to blog entries for a comment thread just like Digg.