What we have here is a classic example of not going far enough. Mixed with once burned twice shy.
Expert users almost never use these things because they don't trust them and they don't really offer anything that can't be done more personally with a copy and paste of the URL. If someone were to take the time to rethink this idiom, it might be nice. And in some ways it has been rethought, although the sites that do it aren't yet popular outside of heavy net-users. Social Bookmarks are the natural extension of these kinds of idioms. And if they ever really get their act together and start letting you build sorted feeds of all your friends bookmarks. Or if a site like facebook does it for them. (in the vein of yahoo pipes) We'll see the tell a friend system replaces with 'add to your bookmark feed' links. Right now, social bookmark sites are leaning more and more towards large-group dynamics. But if my bookmarkfeed was fed from the people on my facebook profile, I'd be much more included to read it. In a certain regard, you can already post things on facebook like this. But I haven't yet seen a site with a 'post as a link on your facebook' links. Nor have I seen facebook turn this isn't a real social bookmarking system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36156 ________________________________________________________________ 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
