blinklist: rapid bookmarks!
blinklist is a social bookmark manager with some more manageable features.
The auto-suggest makes searching for your nested tags a breeze, del.icio.us is yet to implement a proper search tool (although it does use auto-suggest when you bookmark pages…so it’s getting there)
Auto-suggest is a good idea in not only finding a tag, but keeping your tags consistent at the time of bookmarking…when you go to type a tag for an item, it suggests tags (as you type) from you arsenal, if it didn’t do this you may create a new tag when you already have one that is suitable.
It kind of reminds me of del.icio.us direct.or in the way browsing is clearer and tags are more visible and easier to manage.
The unique (kick ass!) feature is breaking up your feeds by having them listed in 3 channels:
- recent
this is at the user level
- popular
this is at the user level
- favourite
as it sounds, favourite, are feeds you add a star to, used for quick access…similar to using gmail
You can kind of do this in Furl (read/unread feature), but this lacks the viewable aggregated list (oops, this is not for tags but for items)
…o.k. I suppose you could do this in del.icio.us by making a favourites bundle heading, but it lacks the quick star approach of blinklist, you’d have to go to settings and add that tag to your bundle (it’s just not automated).
I also think it’s got it’s own re-syndicating tool (RSS-to-Java) like Furl.
Other features are: tag clouds, item click count, private entries, and the usual social functionality.
You can view someone else’s account by clicking on the name of the person who bookmarked the page, but at the moment you can’t click on “Saved by 2 users” and view the URL of the item, showing you all the people who bookmarked that item.
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Dear blogger,
Thank you very much for taking a look at blinklist and for taking the time to review our product. Your review made our day! We are glad to see that you find our unique UI for delivering feeds “Kick ass!”
I wanted to highlight another feature that you did not mention. Perhaps we need to figure out how to make it easier to find.
In addition to having a favorite “channel” you can also star and select specific links within a given tag as your favorite. This is another unique feature.
For example, if you have blinked (bookmarked) dozens of sites under the term “folksonomy” you can click the star button on your favorite sites that you access frequently and they will always show up at the top. This makes finding your favorite links as easy as finding your favorite tags.
Perhaps we should not use the same symbol (a star) next to each link since they are a little different. One is for the favorite channel and one is for your favorite links within a given tag.
Thanks again for taking the time to write up a review!
Mike
Comment by Mike — July 1, 2005 @ 5:08 pm