Re: [delicious-discuss] pc mag delicious review
Chris accidentally pasted the wrong link. The del.icio.us review is here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1875186,00.asp It's interesting that mainstream PC users, as represented by PC Mag reviewers, find del.icio.us confusing and a cluttered mess in comparison with other competitors. Even with the most minimal design and limited feature set, del.icio.us appears to have a posting rate that's orders of magnitude higher than any other competitors. (I haven't measured this myself). One conclusion that might be drawn from this is that if the real value of social bookmarking is the wisdom of the crowd, then the size of the crowd is more important than the graphic design--even the interface design. Also, it's pretty clear that social bookmarking is a frontier inhabited mostly by early adopters. Who knows what might tip things in th other direction? -- Brian Del Vecchio | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://hybernaut.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [delicious-discuss] pc mag delicious review
I thought it was a bad review, and not because it was negative. It took me 10 minutes to familiarise myself with del.icio.us - initially, I felt the same confusion as the reviewer. Persistence paid off, though, and it's obvious to me that the reviewer simply didn't persist for long enough. Brian Del Vecchio said: One conclusion that might be drawn from this is that if the real value of social bookmarking is the wisdom of the crowd, then the size of the crowd is more important than the graphic design--even the interface design. I agree, but that's an inside perspective, which the prospective user doesn't have. Looks are an attractive feature for average users. Del.icio.us is ugly because it's square and grey (sad to say). Some other bookmarking sites are ugly (I think) because they're overwhelmingly cluttered. Furl and Spurl have struck a balance. The review is correct on one thing, though: del.icio.us has a steep learning curve (even if it lasts only a few minutes), with little guidance. That's enough to drive users away. - N ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[delicious-discuss] Re: pc mag delicious review
joshua schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are definitely working on this, but it'd help a lot if folks made a list of stuff they thought was wrong. We're going to try to do a release tonight (we haven't in a few weeks) so at least a few more things should be fixed soon. There's a bunch of links, or lack of links, on the page, that I find confusing. The one case I can think of right now is that there's no way to get to another users inbox other than typing in the URL to it. To me it would seem natural to link there from the users link pages. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[delicious-discuss] Exporting Firefox Bookmarks to del.icio.us
I read somewhere that is was possible to export all my Firefox bookmarks to del.icio.us, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Can anyone give me further information?-- John W. Redelfs[EMAIL PROTECTED]===All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [delicious-discuss] Exporting Firefox Bookmarks to del.icio.us
You read it on Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=export+all+my+Firefox+bookmarks+to+del.icio.us First result.On 10/24/05, John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read somewhere that is was possible to export all my Firefox bookmarks to del.icio.us, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Can anyone give me further information?-- John W. Redelfs[EMAIL PROTECTED]=== All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR ___discuss mailing listdiscuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss-- http://sridhar.wordpress.com ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [delicious-discuss] Exporting Firefox Bookmarks to del.icio.us
we'll have something released shortly; the code is written and I just need to go over it to make sure it works all right (after the last time it did all the botched imports, i want to make extra sure.) Joshua On Oct 23, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Sri Kat wrote: You read it on Google. http://www.google.com/search?q=export+all+my+Firefox+bookmarks+to +del.icio.us First result. On 10/24/05, John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read somewhere that is was possible to export all my Firefox bookmarks to del.icio.us, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Can anyone give me further information? -- John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] === All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- http://sridhar.wordpress.com ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- joshua schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
