Hi there Amy, There is an initiative to merge these icons into a single standard icon (like RSS and OPML) that acts as a single display point for a bunch of bookmarking providers, that essentially provide the same functional benefit.
View this link for more info: http://shareicons.com/ How this differs from the OPML (http://opmlicons.com/) and RSS (http://www.feedicons.com/) initiative is the different platforms that the initiative is trying to merge into one, whereas, generally speaking RSS for example is one open standard (I mean... there are different versions but its pretty ubiquitous) I think this kind of thing will become a trend with a lot of technologies in the near future, and you'll have these strange little 20x20 coloured icons everywhere, but in proper context (hopefully). (I'm just trying to think of one off the top of my head... Maybe there should be one pertaining to contacts for example) The way I stumbled upon this is I was trying to find a good iconic image for the function of "SHARING" (a file, a resource, a view etc. with a group of people) for an application I am designing the interaction and interface for, and I didn't want to use a HAND!! Really, really not an easy thing to represent without using a hand I've found... without sacrificing the meaningfulness. In fact, I think the iconic image for this share icon (the 3 nodes) is quite dumb and not specific... I guess neither is the circle for the OPML or the radio waves for the RSS icon either. However, the RSS icon and the OPML icon I can get for their context. The share icon... I'm not so sure. Maybe that's just me. Anyway... It could be a challenging exercise to find a good standard icon for "sharing" that is a little more specific, and not a hand... But this green 3 node thing is only okay for what it does I think. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31250 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
