We've talked about
tagging in general and
Del.icio.us in
particular.
Links are the best—I am finding, gardening, growing, weeding, and pruning them daily. Sharing them constantly, real
time, via IM, email, and blogs.
I still want my links, photos, friends, recommendations, reviews, presentations, peer review papers, ideas, concepts,
etc to be shared right through my fully aggregated, fully tabbed, low-profile IM-centric environment. I want to click
on a name and see what's new with my friends, family members or business cohorts without even bothering them.
Ubiquitous connections between what i post, tag, mark, and find at Flickr,
Del.icio.us,
Technorati Tags, Furl, Spurl, CiteULike, Connnotea, etc. I
want explicit permissions. Let me be private to certain people, anonymous to some, and available to others at the
'thing' level—images, photos, documents, links, etc.
What do you want? Are you getting what you want and/or need with any of the currently available tagging and sharing
social software systems?
Tagging as a Social Phenomenon
Reader Comments
(Page 1)3. I'm definitely still hungry for something I haven't yet seen: the perfect uber-app (or DLA, if you will) that will be organic enough to reflect something relevant about who I am, the projects I'm working on, the ideas I'm interested in, the news I find interesting/important, the media I'm exploring, the art/music/content I'm producing, the art/music/content being produced by friends and others I wish to promote. The ubiquitous problem for me seems to be that none of the tools I use are flexible enough to capture how quickly my interests change/grow/expand in real life. Hence, categories on my blogs become either unwieldy or no longer relevant, profiles on all 45,837 social services get out of date too quickly (and there's little incentive to keep them updated), and there's no easy way to refactor it all.
Tagging and tabbing are indispensable new trends because they help reflect/deal with the fact that we're able to handle a lot more ideas/projects/connections concurrently, or at least, that we want to be able to! Tagging makes categorizing things multiply practically an imperative, which is as it should be. It also makes it vastly easier to change or add descriptors on the fly. Tabbed chats/browsers/documents makes it far easier to deal with a multiplicity of concurrent events. There is nothing more jarring than to stare at a screen that is a forest of open windows, with no way to easily differentiate and find the one you need at any given moment. It boggles my mind that people can still use Internet Explorer, with no support for tabbed browsing - do most people only follow one thread at a time? Or do they just put up with the forest of windows?
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad
4. Judith, I think we developed a service that aims in the direction of what you describe in your post. It is called SearchFox. SearchFox is a favorites manager with lots of cool features that let you organize and share links. As for permissions, you can create groups and make them public or private. You can also add members to the group and assign four types of permissions: guest, user, editor and admin. We then allow you to share links via email, RSS, and blogrolls/bloglists. In addition, the members of your groups will see your links when searching before they see web results.
The workflow/UI needs improvements and we only support links for the current beta release. However, we are working on a revamped platform that will capture email, feeds, tags, forum posts, pictures, files, etc and show it to you based on how you and the people you share with interact with those things. Stay tuned…
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Esteban Kozak
5. I would also like a better 'ignore' that would allow ignoring users as well as tags. It would be SUPER if 'ignore' would work in our feed too.
I would also like to see language options. How many enjoy reading through a bunch of titles that you don't read, so that you can find a language you can read?
Oh, and sub-categories, or at least grouping, because by-date or alphabetical order just stinks X^P
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Sherri
6. @Sherri - del.icio.us now has a "bundles" feature that lets you do the kind of grouping you're talking about. It's been on my wish list for a while now, too.
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad
1. Judith, how would you propose sharing something "anonymously" while using a service/id for which you also share things non-anonymously?
Also, will "sharing social software systems" be a new SNS Meta List category? If not, can I suggest it? Thank you.
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Michael