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Thoughts on social bookmarks, folksonomies, tag-based aggregated blog portals…a quick outline on some of the unique features

…these are based on some of the tagging services I have covered, too many to keep up with…

Simpy
Boolean searching
Full-text searching
Multiple Topics (also search feeds across Topic inbox)
Groups
Notes channel (text posts)…each note has a permalink, although lacks trackbacks and comments
Click-throughs

Connotea
Aggregated comments
Groups
Tag description (tag notes)
…too much else to mention

Shadows
Aggregated comments (general and user level)
Shadow page (details)
Formal groups (not private)
Ratings

Tagifieds
Text posts
Permalinks with comments (or permatags… this link explains the difference in controlling the URL ID)
Groups
…too much else to mention

Tagsurf
Text posts
Permalinks with comments, and trackbacks…even each comment has a permalink, seems each comment can also be tagged

CommonTimes
Great user interface and presentation

Jots
Calendar
Groups

CiteULike
Groups
Permalinks
…too much else to mention

Blinklist
Bookmark channels and flagging
(View your bookmarks by recent, popular, favourite)
Groups
(View a group page to see each members latest bookmarks and tag cloud)
Click-throughs (quickstart)

Spurl
Domain level linkbacks
Full-text search
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)

Furl
Full-text search
Search feeds
Great interface
(maybe Spurl has this as well)

Netvouz
Categories and tags (maybe Spurl has this as well), is this similar to Furl topics and keywords
Suggest tags when you highlight text or from the title
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)

Raw Sugar ADDED 20/09/05
Categories (hyperlinked tag bundles)
Customised banner
Export search box and category level headings
Full-text search
Contacts list
Sort search, by popular or recent
Statistics

TagFacts
Text posts (notes) with comments, and permalinks coming soon…not sure about trackbacks.

Wists
Images
Extra context tagging…like a kind of namespace
…also see comment 13 on this post about context in tagging
(still haven’t checked out this service properly)

NumSum
Spreadsheets
Permalinks with comments

del.icio.us
For tags
Tag bundles
System tags (podcast feed)
Topic inbox
Playtagger
Active Channel
del.icio.us networking
del.icio.us fans

TextSnippets [ADDED 18/10/05]
Markup code notes
Permalinks with comments

NoteTagger [ADDED 20/10/05]
Text posts (notes) (similar to making a blog post)
Permalinks with comments
(same as TextSnippets without focusing on code boxes, and same as TagFacts but has permalinks with comments for very permalink)

Clipmarks [ADDED 2/11/05]
Clips (excerpts)…also records origin of link
Permalinks with comments
Aggregate comments you make, and also comments made to you (see and interact in real-time)
Folders
Latest bookmarks title index
Mini-search box for My Clipmarks and Public Clipmarks

More lists
Tag_apps (one of my del.icio.us tags)
SW Collection: Social Bookmarking Galore!
Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison
Social bookmarks chart version 1
Wikipedia - Social Bookmarking

See my del.icio.us tag for customising your own folksonomy (or server-based)

Too many folksonomies to cover, please add any suggestions in the comments.

Bookmarks update [ADDED: 12/12/05]

[ADDED 24/04/06: ma.gnolia]

[ADDED 30/05/06: Diigo : social bookmarks and annotations]

[ADDED 17/07/06: Latest social bookmarks]

[ADDED 19/03/07: Snipitron]

[ADDED 20/03/07: decipho]

[ADDED 26/04/07 : Meshly - post by IM]

[ADDED 05/07/07: CoReap]

Jarrod Trainque has turned his blog into a tag based system.

Not all blogs are used for time or date sensitive information, some are simply used for knowledge storage and retrieval, in this instance chronological posts aren’t necessary, and discovery can be augmented by tags.

From the post:

“How to forego categories and date-based archives and turn your Wordpress-powered blog into a tag-based blogging system. Like del.icio.us, but a blog.”

Every post displays:

- Tags applied within the blog
(clicking one will take you to all posts with this tag)
- Related entries
- Tags applied elsewhere
(clicking on an icon will take you to Technorati tags, Flickr, del.icio.us, and Wikipedia

…there is also a tag cloud.

more thoughts

Tag-based blogs could lead to a social blog manager (like del.icio.us does for social bookmarking), although the blogs would have to have generic presentation…the homepage could be very similar to del.icio.us, with all tags on the sidebar and the latest blog entries in the body.
Instead of posts revolving around a link, they can be just text if they like, also every post needs to have a permalink at the user-level (something lacking in del.icio.us).

del.icio.us can be used with pasta, which means the bookmark doesn’t have to revolve a link, the link (space provided by pasta) can be just text…but there is still the issue of a permalink at the user level.

del.icio.us has a permalink for the general URL …Connotea, and Shadows and others (such as CommonTimes) have this (actually each URL has 2 different permalinks), but you can also thread comments for these two services-also noticed Digg has aggregated comments.
…but these comments are to the general URL of the bookmark, not exclusive to a users version of the bookmark

Furl actually has a permalink for each bookmark

See the permalink for this bookmark in my account
See the permalink for the same bookmark in someone elses account
(Even though they have different title, the URL is the same).

But then Furl isn’t really set up as social as del.icio.us (it is social, but I think it’s more personal with some sharing aspects)

Tagsurf, Tagifieds, and Num Sum are very close to a tag based blog community as each post has a permalink at the user level; although these tools aren’t primarily social bookmark managers (Tagsuf is more forum/discussion based, Tagifieds is more bulletin board based, and Num Sum is for spreadsheets, lists, notes)…another blog like feature is that all posts allow comments.

But nonetheless imagine if a social bookmark manager allowed permalinks, comments, and a calendar (see Jots for a folksonomy with a calendar)….and even trackback.

A variation of del.icio.us could become like a tag-based link blog community, even though it already is this, there would be more emphasis on the blog aspect than there is presently)

…why, because it would be even more personalized and interactive at the personal level with more space for permalinks…leave comments to just one user on a specific post, also search the users date based archive, or by tag.

Personally I don’t think del.icio.us needs such a feature, but it would be good to trial such a system.

I guess what I’m talking about is the merging of a social bookmark manager (folksonomy) and a blog…where the content is aggregated on a homepage similar to a public RSS aggregator or a social bookmark manager, but you have your own user space within the system, your blog so to speak (although the theme format has to stay generic, so no sidebar fancies accept tags/categories/calendar)…and every bookmark has a permalink, allows comments, and maybe trackback (or at least you can do citation searches as you have permalinks).

Check out my other post, del.icio.us for: + pasta vs. Tagsurf

ADDED later: I just noticed that CiteUlike has a permalink for each bookmark at the user level
Random user - alisonruth…if you hover over a bookmark you will notice that, similar to Furl, it goes to a permalink page at the user level (not straight to the native website, like del.icio.us does)…see a bookmark within a users account.

…this is close to an environment of generic link blogs (with permalinks) incorporated into a folksonomy (at this level someone else can link to a specific post within the users account)

…it allows notes, so all it needs is comments, and trackback!

Personal Bee is an invite only RSS reader (for the moment, as it is still in development)

The idea is to alleviate the problem of feed overload

…we all know now that subscribing to feeds is so easy, fun, and ingeniously informative, that we get addicted and don’t find enough time in the day to read them all…and you want to, but you can’t, unless you want a life other other than RSS (well some of us).

A way around this is to do search feeds on your OPML, try Feedster…or if you use Bloglines, search your subscriptions.
See some related posts below on doing this just within one feed, or a selection of feeds (lacking in Bloglines, which only has all or nothing)…even better just use Feed Digest…see this post for more tools.

Anyway, what Personal Bee does is something similar to TagCloud…TechCrunch explains this best:

“Imagine if all of your unread feeds were scanned, keywords and/or tags were analyzed, and a tag cloud was created where you could see words with font size and boldness determined by how prominent they were in the posts. That way, you could just click on what you want to read, and ignore the fluff.”

Related posts:

Managing RSS content…
Filter search your subscriptions via Blogdigger
Are you becoming a slave to your RSS reader?
Can RSS readers feed filter (on a per feed basis)

[via TechCrunch]