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Those of you trying to curate large amounts of link should get together and create a public index of all that content. You could call the site yoohoo or somethi
by phkahler 4y ago
Those of you trying to curate large amounts of link should get together and create a public index of all that content. You could call the site yoohoo or something ;-)
- sanderjd 4y agoI unironically think social bookmarking is a missing product. Not because it doesn't exist, but because nothing has gained enough mindshare and momentum to be dominant and widely used.
- Moissanite 4y agoStumbleUpon used to be a kind of answer to this. I'd love to have it back, particularly if the contents could be curated (eg "show me a random link which has been featured on the front page of HN or lobste.rs in the last month")
- worldsayshi 4y agoIf somebody can figure out a note/link app that becomes as easy to manage when you're adding your first note as when you're adding your thousandth note then such services will stop dying out.
- sanderjd 4y agoYes, I loved that era of the web!
- krazydad 4y agodelicio.us was pretty great in it’s day
- coliveira 4y agoThe problem is not to be dominant, it is that there was no money to be made in this type of website. These sites come and go, it is very difficult to monetize them.
- sodimel 4y agoI think it's great that there's no giant making money on top of this concept. It lets people do whatever they want to store and share links :)
- sanderjd 4y agoYes but it means there is no one thing that all the people I want to follow all use. Everyone ends up in their own sandbox. Network effects are really useful and positive sum, I think. And there are very few things like Wikipedia that both have the benefit of being dominant and not monetized. Are there any other examples at all?
- 0x445442 4y agoI’m very close to having an old Delicious style site ready. Do you think people would pay $1 a month?
- johnchristopher 4y agoDepends what you get beside storing links I suppose (cached version of content, super smart search function not limited to og: and metadata tags, super privacy, bridges to-do app maybe ?, android app + ff ext. + chr. ext. + apple thingies for ubiquitous access to links, etc.). I could see myself dropping ~10bucks a year like for bitwarden.
- sanderjd 4y agoNot at first, at least, in my opinion, if crowdsourcing is what makes it useful. If the network effects are what makes a product useful, a subscription fee pushes against the growth of that network.
- ghaff 4y agoFolksonomies was one of the terms used back in the day when delicio.us was one of the current hotnesses. I still use pinboard and it's handy. But, like RSS, this sort of thing mostly appeals to researchers/analysts/journalists/etc. The average person mostly doesn't care about saving and even loosely organizing a lot of information.
- kcb 4y agoPinterest?
- sanderjd 4y agoI don't think so? But Pinterest makes no sense to me so maybe it is this and I just don't get it?
- aprdm 4y agoIsn’t that Reddit ?
- sanderjd 4y agoNope.
- incanus77 4y agoDel.icio.us was a big deal ~15 years ago. I made a Mac client for it (Pukka) that sold pretty well and the service was much talked-about in tech circles, not just for researchers. This was in the early era of social networking as a whole ("Web 2.0") as well as this idea of "wisdom of crowds" for emergent context to bubble up from public tagging.
- sanderjd 4y agoYep. I was there for and loved all that era. But nobody ever figured out a sustainable business model for it. Pity.
- manuelmoreale 4y agoI know it's not exactly what you're describing but a somewhat comparable option is https://www.are.na https://www.are.na
- donkeyd 4y agoFriend of mine is always surprised when we discuss something and 20 seconds later I send him an article I once read about it. He has asked multiple times what I use to store all these links. It's Google. I just use Google to find the article again based on what I remember from it. This doesn't always work though and can lead to a frustrating half hour of searching that ends in disappointment.
- frereubu 4y agoEven more frustrating when you can't quite remember the content of the article you can't find, although you're sure you found it fascinating when you read it at the time...
- Jeff_Brown 4y agoIf I had a dollar for every topic I've read about and found fascinating and can hardly describe with any more detail than that ...
- mnsh 4y agoI hate it when that happens, more often that not i remember the visuals of the site, then i try to find it in my browser history like a sucker. I have yet to find a solution for this. One solution is I screenshot all the sites i visit, extract their colors, and create a searchable index. Nice side project idea I guess.
- brainzap 4y agodidn't there exist a browser toolbar called stumble upon that allowed people to share interesting links
- ryandrake 4y agoWe've re-invented dmoz[1]. Now someone just has to slap AI and blockchain on the idea, and they could raise for a "modern" dmoz. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
- strangattractor 4y agoHoarding data does not have to be a negative thing necessarily. Might I suggest checking out https://archive.org/about/ https://archive.org/about/. Create an account and install the browser extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp... WARNING: archiving can be habit forming.
- whitten 4y agoI think this is a great answer to the issue of needing a service to manage archives. Now the issue to me is how to convince folks it is worthwhile
- strangattractor 4y agoThere is likely no single good answer. Personally I break the issue into the long and short term. Long term (100s 1000s of years) the answer seems somewhat obvious. Preservation of information can be useful to future generations. Short term our societies are experiencing rapid change. Many things are built and soon discarded based on factors other than utility. So preserving the knowledge is useful for the minority of people that found those things useful. Also there is intentional mass truth distortion amplified by technology occurring. Preservation of the original sources of information is the first line of defense against it.
- sogen 4y agoOr Google!