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I like how it just uses the functionality that's built into your browser, but the problem with browser bookmarks is that, for the "experts and leading thinkers"

I like how it just uses the functionality that's built into your browser, but the problem with browser bookmarks is that, for the "experts and leading thinkers" you want on your platform, those people usually have thousands of links on Delicious or Pinboard, and with that amount of bookmarks the browser's interface just doesn't cut it. Something to think about.

dsowers 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Do you think these experts have thousands of actual bookmarks or just thousands of links on these other platforms? Because it seems to me that people don't want to pollute their own bookmark collections, and will only bookmark something that they see as being a cut above the rest. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
- stdbrouw 15y ago
  Well, it depends. Some people use bookmarks as favorites, and you want to keep your favorites compact so they're not messy, but other people use bookmarks as a research tool and bookmark everything they may want to refer to later, either personally or for a blogpost. Same reason people favorite tweets: not because they're oh-so-special, but because they want to keep them around. I have about ~350 links tagged journalism on Delicious, and I consider all of those to be a cut above the rest.
xyzzyb 15y ago
Agreed. I'm not sure what this gets me that http://pinboard.in/popular/ http://pinboard.in/popular/ doesn't already provide.
- dsowers 15y ago
  What briarpatch does differently is you don't have to use a javascript bookmarklet. With the briarpatch chrome extension, you can just bookmark sites the way you normally do and it works behind the scenes without you having to think about it.
  - xyzzyb 15y ago
    Sorry, I meant as a "way to discover high quality content on the web". For bookmarking: I get that briarpatch is hooking into the browser, and I see how that's interesting but I'm way into pinboard and it's ability to automatically collect and full-text index every link I put on the web (e.g. twitter, google reader, reddit, browsing, hn)
    - dsowers 15y ago
      Yeah, pinboard is definitely good for collecting everything. However, we don't want briarpatch to collect everything that someone posts on all of these sites because it would lead to content pollution (like you see with most content discovery sites these days). We want briarpatch to thoroughly limit the ways content is collected. Whether this experiment work or not remains to be seen. But thanks for your feedback!

dsowers 15y ago

Thanks for the feedback. Do you think these experts have thousands of actual bookmarks or just thousands of links on these other platforms? Because it seems to me that people don't want to pollute their own bookmark collections, and will only bookmark something that they see as being a cut above the rest. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.

stdbrouw 15y ago
Well, it depends. Some people use bookmarks as favorites, and you want to keep your favorites compact so they're not messy, but other people use bookmarks as a research tool and bookmark everything they may want to refer to later, either personally or for a blogpost. Same reason people favorite tweets: not because they're oh-so-special, but because they want to keep them around. I have about ~350 links tagged journalism on Delicious, and I consider all of those to be a cut above the rest.

xyzzyb 15y ago

Agreed. I'm not sure what this gets me that http://pinboard.in/popular/ http://pinboard.in/popular/ doesn't already provide.

dsowers 15y ago
What briarpatch does differently is you don't have to use a javascript bookmarklet. With the briarpatch chrome extension, you can just bookmark sites the way you normally do and it works behind the scenes without you having to think about it.
- xyzzyb 15y ago
  Sorry, I meant as a "way to discover high quality content on the web". For bookmarking: I get that briarpatch is hooking into the browser, and I see how that's interesting but I'm way into pinboard and it's ability to automatically collect and full-text index every link I put on the web (e.g. twitter, google reader, reddit, browsing, hn)
  - dsowers 15y ago
    Yeah, pinboard is definitely good for collecting everything. However, we don't want briarpatch to collect everything that someone posts on all of these sites because it would lead to content pollution (like you see with most content discovery sites these days). We want briarpatch to thoroughly limit the ways content is collected. Whether this experiment work or not remains to be seen. But thanks for your feedback!