RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-13 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
John Remmers wrote: A personal star system is good for labeling your personal favorites, but not so good for finding what other people consider to be their favorites. For favorites-sharing, you need a standardized way of doing it. If the online documentation were to mention a few of these

Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-12 Thread Christopher Millward
Perhaps just a gold star next to the items you think are good? I like this idea, because you could arguably find a lot from this. There are lots of pages that I link about some subject so I don't lose them but aren't shining stars of pages. It would good for self to have a gold star (GS) to

Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-12 Thread Mislav Marohnić
On 10/12/06, Christopher Millward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would good for self to have a gold star (GS) to check for links that stand out to me. All my links would have this star, otherwise they wouldn't be in my list. We already have a star system here, don't you see? Your star on a

RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-12 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Britta wrote: I have a star system: http://del.icio.us/britta/%E2%98%85 When a website catches my interest to the point of obliterating everything else in the world while I read it, I give it a unicode-star tag. I bookmark lots of stuff - most of it is just interesting, and some of it is

Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-10 Thread Mislav Marohnić
On 10/10/06, Joseph Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best not to put any collaborative feature apart from the existing subscribe and network. Simple, clean, effective. Not a feature-rich energy sink. While I'm not as crazy about Digg and others like I am about del.icio.us(because of its

RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-10 Thread Joshua Schachter
Subject: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service? Users primarily focus on aggregating what are the most trusted and useful resources, not just what is hot. True, there is the del.icio.us front page, but beyond that much of the way del.icio.us works

Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-10 Thread Geoff Froh
While I'm not as crazy about Digg and others like I am about del.icio.us(because of its simplicity and usefulness), I still think we need to enhance the social part of del.icio.us. Right now it's hard to find (read: takes too much time) distinguished bookmarkers. Some friends also didn't

RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-10 Thread Joshua Schachter
Froh Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:14 AM To: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news service? While I'm not as crazy about Digg and others like I am about del.icio.us(because of its