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PULP is set to be a social bookmarks and more that can be installed for enterprise use.

Some clever additions are adding content from your mobile device, and also automating this by scanning barcodes from your mobile device to add it to the collections.

Another feature is a type of flagging so others know what the owner of the collection “has” apart from “what they want to have”.

The post explains walking through a bookstore and scanning a book to see if it exists within a friends collection, and if it does, and if they own it, you can borrow it for free instead of purchasing it.

Since instances of PULP aren’t on a common server, p2p feature will enable file sharing.

Some related enterprise bookmarking services are available here.

coComment is now becoming the one and all tool for blogosphere comments.

Presently I use del.icio.us to tag comments I make elsewhere, I could also further organise these comments with tags eg. del.icio.us/username/mycomments+folksonomy

…I also re-syndicate the feed (del.icio.us/username/mycomments) onto my blog sidebar.

All this can be done with coComments, plus the social benefits are more explicit and focused as coComments is a specially designed bookmark/tagging system for blog comments, whereas del.icio.us is a generic social tagging system…also to note is that both these are folksonomies as anyone can tag the same URL (global tagging).

Basically it allows you to bookmark and tag the blog post you have commented on, and then discover others who have also commented on a blog post…or discover other commented blog posts with the same tag you used for some of your commented blog posts, or check out the comments a user is making in the blogosphere.

But it’s not just a bookmark collection another feature is that once you bookmark a blog post, you can see any new comments added to that blog post, this allows you to track the conversation, as a result of bookmarking it…it also offers a feed to track it in your RSS Reader.
This feature has recently been enhanced, because now it shows all subsequent comments to a blog post regardless if the commenter is registered with coComments…this is something that co.mments and Commentful had that was unique, but now it seems coComments has this and more…check it out.

Plus, now you don’t have to comment on a blog post in order to bookmark it in coComments, you can simply bookmark any blog post you like to track comments…in the end it is a comment tracker and a repository.

NOTE: If you are into just plain and simple tracking of any comments from a blog post, co.mments is a great tool, but if you want to do this and more, then coComments is your choice.

New features

Comment crawling
- now tracks every comment in a blog post

Enhanced tracking
- now enables you to track blog posts you haven’t participated in

Outside comments
- if a blog post doesn’t have a comments box, you can use coComments to leave a comment, of course your comment will only appear in the coComments service…this reminds me of Webride.

Filter by type
- organise your bookmarks by type eg. blogs, forums, etc…

Via:
CoComment Adds CoCoCrawler, YouTube Support
CoComment upgrades, now worth using

Similar:
commentful : track comments in one place

I’m really short for time to write up on all the latest tools, so I’m going to have to refer you to write ups from my Reading List circle.

Tagtooga
- social bookmarks in wiki (communal editing of bookmarks)…option to set private tags
- tags organised in categories
- domain search
- create groups
- voting
- comments
- submit to other social bookmark services
- Sidebar quick links (like favourites…similar to Blinklist)
- thumbnail feedrolls

Markaboo
- Open source
- tag notes (like Simpy notes, TagFacts, TextSnippets, NoteTagger, etc…)
- save and tag files

Searchles
- groups
- friends list
- comments
- searchle (search within your groups and friends)
- more

Butterfly
- annotations (eg. diigo)
- sets (create lists)…also see listible and H20 Playlist, jeteye, wink, prefound, memeflow

Blue Dot
- heavily based on networks and friends

Stumble Upon

Swarm (not a social bookmark manager)
- browse webpages people are looking at right now and chat about it…see the swarm…join the swarm via a browser extension.
- I agree, it needs browsing by topic (how would a topic be defined, maybe it could ride on a social bookmark service, or maybe it could decide a topic itself by some time of text analysis.)

Foundd (this is a personal bookmark manager)
- built in drop down choice of search engines
- from a search result drag a link or the icon from the address bar into your Foundd folder
- Tag and describe your item

[ADDED: Fungow, Plum (also save and tag desktop files), and Taggly]

Diigo are really moving forward in the bookmark arena, and they haven’t even released yet…see my earlier review.

Basically what makes Diigo stand out from the rest is that you can highlight and add sticky notes to sections of a bookmark…these can be expanded to be displayed in your user bookmark stream…or if you are in the Diigo community and you visit the native page of this bookmark, you will see the annotations.

Not only the human indexed web, it’s the human annotated web!

But wait there’s more, after compiling and annotating notes you can draft and publish them straight into your blog, from within the Diigo blog editor.

This is an idea for a all-in-one research tool

READ-COMMENT/CLIP-PUBLISH

- RSS Reader for your reading
(if a site hasn’t got a feed, use Ponyfish or Feedwhip)
(comment to a post from within the RSS Reader, it also saves your comment in a folder in your collections - this folder can have an RSS feed - …also if you comment to a post from outside of your RSS Reader this can also be saved via a bookmarklet)

- Save items to your collection, and also to a blog post bay folder
(also be able to save random notes to this blog post bay folder, or links that haven’t come from within your RSS Reader)

- When you are ready send a tag from your blog post bay folder to the inbuilt blog editor and draft/publish a post

NOTE: reblog, and MySyndicaat are slightly different…with reBlog you can send an item from your RSS Reader to a clip blog, this is curating content…I guess this is exactly what the Bloglines Clip Blog does, not sure if you can add your own text.
MySyndicaat can also clip (even email) a post to a digest blog, but you can’t do this from a personal RSS Reader, you can only do it from the Public RSS Reader (this means content may pass by as a Public RSS Reader doesn’t have unread/read functionality as it is public).
Also to add reblog can clip stuff from outside your RSS Reader, MySyndicaat lacks this feature.

Anyway, there’s lots of new stuff, and note Diigo has plenty of other unique features.

LinkRolls

Now like del.icio.us you can get a linkroll for just one tag or a combination of tags, but more amazing is that annotations/sticky notes/comments are now part of the linkroll if you wish.

Next to each item in the linkroll you can click “expand” to see annotations/sticky notes/comments…this is context (not sure if you will see the whole Diigo community annotations/sticky notes/comments for a given item or just yours).

If you click on the actual item in the linkroll you will be taken to the native site where you can see the annotations/sticky notes in more context (must have to be a Diigo user to see this).

Anyway check out the screenshots.

Blog This

This has really been enhanced…3 ways.

1. Highlight text and right-click or use the toolbar to Blog This!
- only your highlighted text and link to original page get automatically posted to an editing window

Then you are taken to a blog editor (editing window)…compose your blog post, give it a title, choose your category and publish to your blog right from within Diigo…awesome.

2. After you have already bookmarked a page, you can find a bookmark and send one of your bookmarks to your Diigo blog editor.

3. Check a batch of bookmarks and select Blog This! from the drop down action menu.

See the screenshots.

Feedback

This is mostly concerning step 3.

If I use a tag called “to blog”, all the bookmarks in this tag are complied for future blog posts.
But how do I remember which bookmarks are for which future blog post, I need sub-tags within the “to blog” tag.

An option is to offer a channel or a folder, call this folder “to blog”, within this folder you can create tags, when you click on the bookmarklet, you can first choose a folder, then choose or create a tag within this folder.
When you add a bookmark to a tag within this folder you could also have an option that says “exclusive” to this tag.
This means this bookmark will only be saved in this tag in this folder, if you have a same tag name elsewhere in Diigo it will not be included (but you could have an option include/exclude).

But just say the tag name in your folder is a phrase, a kind of draft blog title name, but you also want this bookmark in your collection at large.
At the time of bookmarking you could choose a folder then choose a tag, if you choose “include”, then it will say which tag do you want to use for your collection at large.

Anyway the point of this is that when I bookmark a page I can add it to a tag containing all content for a future single blog post…you can have heaps of these tags, and they won’t be lost in your tag cloud as they can live in a channel or folder.

This is how I use Google Notebook, this service has revolutionised how I collect thoughts, text, links for future blog posts…that’s right you can just add a note.
Diigo doesn’t have free text links, you can only bookmark webpages, you can’t make your own notes (but Diigo is a bookmark service first, and a blog post compiler second)…see Simpy Notes, and TagFacts.

NOTE: you can make your own notes with sticky notes, but what I mean is if you have a thought or idea and you want to jot it down you would have to bookmark a random webpage and annotate it just to get your note down.

Also to add these notes or links to Google Notebook is so handy, the little icon just above the systems tray is a mini-version of your notebook…it’s really amazing.

Data Mining points to the latest papers from the 3rd International Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, one that has caught my interest so far is Browsing System for Weblog Articles based on Automated Folksonomy.

The premise is comparing a folksonomy to user only tagging, and how multiple points of view in a folksonomy can emerge a more precise tag (describe the aboutness) of an item…see my post What qualifies a folksonomy?
NOTE: a folksonomy allows people to tag the same item, allowing a vocabulary to emerge.

So, Technorati Tags is an author based tagging system, only the authors don’t log in, they don’t even submit the items…Technorati crawls the blogosphere and adds the items itself.
Then we can browse blog posts by author tags…so the issue lies that these blog posts have been tagged/described by one person (the author), whereas in a folksonomy lots of people can describe (tag) the same item, this inturn propogates a more precise tag for an item (kind of by consensus).

Instead of collecting author tags imagine if there was a system where the latest blog posts from a feed set streamed in, eg. FeedButler, and users could save/vote and tag these blog posts…this would be like Technorati Tags defined by users not authors…according to a folksonomy the tags for an item applied by a collective mind will be of higher accuracy…perhaps.
I suppose del.icio.us works this way accept the stream of items is not generated by a feedset, instead people submit these items, this may make del.icio.us more quality controlled (but not as exhaustive)…also del.icio.us content is not limited to just blog posts.

Actually TailRank have a stream of items, these items are based on a feed set which is a massive colelction of peoples OPML’s, or just people submitting feeds to the feedset.
Then as these items stream, users can tag them…hmmm, sounds close to what I’m talking about.

Anyway, the paper in question goes a step further and generates an automated folksonomy…this is different than AutoTag, tagyu, TagSuggest, tagthe.net, etc…as these scan the contents and decide on a machine generated tag (ZoomClouds, TagCloud, and Personal Bee also do this in a different context).

What the paper suggests is that instead of a machine deciding the tag names, it instead collects all the author tags, then scans the contents of a blog post and decides which author tag/s suit best for each item…so the machine does not decide the tag names it just applies them to items.

So humans decides the vocabulary, but the machine does the indexing for each item…imagine a machine scanning a book and then applying a LOC or DDC term.

[ADDED 02/06/06: Tagyu does not do content analysis, it searches for similar chuncks of text to the bookmark in question, and then offers the tags used from these similar chunks of text for your bookmark]

[ADDED 22/12/06: Turbo Tagger - tag generator for blog posts]