del.icio.us fans
Earlier I posted on how del.icio.us recently split up the contents type of the inbox…the inbox is now for tag subscriptions, and the “your network” is for user subscriptions…makes sense.
Well now, if you go to “your network“, you will see a section on the sidebar called “your fans“.
These are people who have you in their network (you can set your network to private, so no-one can see which users you subscribe to).
I was pleased to see that I have over 20 fans…these people must like my link stream…glad to be of service.
I’m doing it for myself anyway, what not let others peer over my shoulder and capitalise on the rewards of my efforts.
If my fans like my stuff, there’s a good chance I’ll like their stuff, so off I go clicking on these users to see what they’ve got.
Now that I’m directly driven to view the accounts of my fans, I want to view other user accounts…hmmm, I’d love to search by a user field.
At the moment the search doesn’t specify fields (I think it searches in the title, tag, and comments field combined).
Check out Simpy and RawSugar for fielded searching, even combining them.
Feedback
I’d like to make bundle headings for my “your network section”, and also for the “your fans” section, not only that but I’d like these bundle headings to be clickable just like in the “inbox” section.
If you click on a bundle heading from the “inbox” (your tag subscriptions), you will just see a portion of the content from your whole inbox.
I’d even like to click on one subscription within a bundle from my inbox, and see the contents from just that subscription, at the moment if you do this it will just launch to that tag page, if you want to choose another tag from your inbox you have to use the back button to get back to your inbox.
Now how about our “tag bundles” headings (the user home page) being clickable hyperlinks, I’d love to see only bookmarks from tags within a tag bundle…RawSugar has this feature.
To go one step further, I’d like to do a search query within one of my inbox bundles or across my whole inbox, and for it to generate a feed that I can subscribe to in my inbox…Simpy has this feature.
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John, “I’m watching you”: http://www.simpy.com/user/johnt . Apparently you are watching me, too.
This idea of watching and fans has been a part of Simpy for a long time now.
Comment by Otis Gospodnetic — May 19, 2006 @ 5:48 pm