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(I've been running social bookmarking site, Faves.com, since 2005). I still think there is a largely unmet need that fits into the "Social Bookmarking" niche.
by mckoss 15y ago
(I've been running social bookmarking site, Faves.com, since 2005).
I still think there is a largely unmet need that fits into the "Social Bookmarking" niche. But I don't think "Social" is the best way to think about it.
As an avid user (of Faves.com, in my case) - I use it for (in order of importance):
1. Pack Rat - I don't ever want to loose a link I
found interesting enough to want to recall later.
2. Personal Search - I need a great search interface
to quickly find anything I've saved (search across
tags, and comment text).
The unmet need - NOT "Social" in the sense that I want to share links with my "friends" - but, rather, topic-based "Communities". Help me interact with people who share the same interests. This is more in the vein of Hacker News or Reddit. But I don't have any one service (Faves, included) that do this "right" yet.
I think I want a well integrated system that spans:
- Personal Bookmarking
- Personal Knowledge Base w/ Search
- Topic Forums
- Commenting system
- Micro-blogging/publishing
- nostromo 15y agoI agree. Back in the days before HN, I would often use Delicious as my aggregator of choice. I would follow specific tags (webdev, informatics, etc.) in my RSS reader and I would find amazing resources all the time. In retrospect, each tag could be similar to a subreddit, but with much higher quality links. These topic-based communities as you put it are much more interesting than, say, seeing what links my cousin shared on FB.