Bookmarkosphere
Via a comment on an earlier post I have come across the tagosphere…the idea for me is to have a meta-search engine for bookmarks, as Technorati has for blogs
…not sure what services the Tagosphere actually searches in.
There are many social bookmark services to cover and a lot these days are becoming very specific eg. 43 things, flickr, Reader2, MOG, connotea, citeulike, youtube, etc (see more at supr.c.ilio.us)…and more.
…so maybe you could limit again to the type of bookmark service you would like to search in, or select services you don’t want in your search.
The general bookmark services that are essential:
del.icio.us
shadows
furl
spurl
netvous
simpy
blinklist
rawsugar
myweb2.0
clipmarks
wink
jots
A service that would search in all 12 of these engines at once would be a great human indexed web to challenge the current traditional search engines.
Not only has every page been chosen by users, but you have the bonus of searching by tag.
It won’t have the great coverage of traditional search engines but the quality is certainly less noisy, and the results can just the same be based on a PageRank type of relevancy, also weigh in the amount of times a URL has been bookmarked into the ranking score…and again there is the by product of searching by tag.
The basic difference is that sites in the index aren’t crawled, they are chosen by users…imagine Google searching in a user subset of the web (with frequency of bookmarks added to the PageRank method…as this is a vote for a webpage, similar to a citation reference).
Read more.
[ADDED: I forgot to add other similar type bookmark services such as Digg, Reddit, Shoutwire, 180 news, and many more
…even if these don’t have tagging, they are still bookmarks, but many are utilised to spread current news more than for personal bookmarking, some are also not only news based but also subject based such as SpinSpy.
So there is some consideration to be made:
- general bookmark service
eg. del.icio.us
- subject based bookmark service
eg. 43 things
- document type bookmark service
eg. citeulike, youtube, reader2, etc…
- bookmark voting service
eg. digg
- subject based bookmark voting service
eg. Spinspy]
[ADDED: RSS Reader bookmarks, such as Rojo]
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Thought you might also be interested in checking out www.diigo.com and adding it to your list. It’s about “Social Annotation”, a superset of social bookmarking.
Diigo is packed with lots of advanced power features. It is still under closed beta. I would like to invite you to try it out. We’d love to have your participation and feedback.
-Maggie
Comment by Maggie — February 7, 2006 @ 6:53 am
“A service that would search in all 12 of these engines at once would be a great human indexed web to challenge the current traditional search engines.”
That would be very cool!
Comment by eric goldstein — February 7, 2006 @ 1:25 pm
I’ve been thinking about a service like this for quite a while (but not done anything about it apart from this WSocial bookmarking engines tag feed OPML generator (I should perhaps add a few more engines to the list, too)).
One thing (which is two things) that I was going to look at when I got a chance was to take something like Stephen Downe’s MyGlu and use it to aggregate the feeds contained in a an OPML generated from the SB tag feed OPML generator (it really needs a better name…!); this of corse requires the generator to provide a link to a real OPML file, as opposed to creating a textual OPML file that the user has to cut and paste into a file of their own.
If there’s anyone out there with a spare bit of coding time on their hands, I’ll happily work through the requirements with you:-)
tony
Comment by Tony Hirst — February 9, 2006 @ 12:51 pm