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A tool/webapp to recommend/share links with different groups of people?
I would like to share or recommend links to different groups of people.
I know, there's delicious but it isn't quite what I'm looking for, I think, because everything you share is visible to everybody following your shares.
I've just checked out Friendfeed and it neither seems to be what I look for, for it simply aggregates anything you share and feeds it to everybody, doesn't it?
What I'd like to do is share, or rather, recommend a link to only a subset of the people I know.
For example, one link might only be of interest to my co-workers, while another might only be interesting for my friends.
Ideally, I'd simply click a button while being at the URL to share, pick the group to share with and -bam- it's shared.
The different groups would follow my shares via RSS or something similar.
- anotherjesse 18y agoWe are building something like this at my startup. http://www.clikball.com http://www.clikball.com .. It is closed invite right now since we are still rapidly building it out, but if you want to try it out and see if it fits email me - anotherjesse@gmail.com We have private groups for sending to multiple people, sending to only to a single user. You can share publicly as well then anyone who follows you can see it (the twitter permissions model). We had the same wish :) Right now it is only usable via a Firefox 3 / Flock extension, but support for more browsers is coming.
- JustAGeek 18y agoCool, I'll contact you soon, thanks!
- tamberg 18y agoWe use Mail2FF (http://friendfeed.com/share/mail http://friendfeed.com/share/mail) to post links and photos to a private FriendFeed Room (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ http://friendfeed.com/rooms/). It works great and you can even get a daily or weekly digest by email (https://friendfeed.com/account/ https://friendfeed.com/account/ > Email Settings) reducing the "interface" to plain email. EDIT: Instead of emailing to the room you can also add a delicious tag's RSS feed to it (e.g. ff:myroom => http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/yourname/ff%3Amyroom http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/yourname/ff%3Amyroom) to cross-post from delicious using your favorite browser bookmarklet. EDIT: And as mileszs said (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465772 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465772): you can add the room's RSS to a reader (even if it's a private room).
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- ahpeeyem 18y agoYou actually could use delicious, with a tag for each group. If you really don't want different groups to see your other links you could use different usernames. e.g. if your username was JustAGeek you could have any links for your friends tagged with 'friends', and the URL for those links would be http://delicious.com/justageek/friends http://delicious.com/justageek/friends. For work you could have the username 'justageekwork'. Delicious generates an RSS feed for any tag as well, just visit that URL and it gives you an RSS feed URL for that list of links. Use the delicious firefox plugin for the one button click sharing functionality.
- JustAGeek 18y agoHm, yes, that could work. Though it is still a bit too complicated because quite a lot of interaction is needed to do that, even with the delicious Firefox addon. You probably have to manually enter the group name as a tag, for example. Ideally, I'd only have to click one button displaying a popup with all groups I've set up. But well, sounds like the way to go - unless somebody can point me to something else. So, thanks for your answer! :)
- sak84 18y agoI have also been looking for something similar to what you are mentioning, but have yet to find anything. Having the ability to choose between groups to share with seems easy enough. The delicious method described above would work, but I believe you are right - there should be something a little easier. Hopefully we'll find it today!
- alx 18y agohttp://github.com/alx/pressmark/tree/master http://github.com/alx/pressmark/tree/master This is a wordpress installation I made, with a delicious-like fonctionnality: add and list bokmarks. You could easily change the input form to include a group feature, like a pre-defined tag like recommanded by ahpeeyem.
- JustAGeek 18y agoAh, cool, will check it out later!
- enra 18y agoI wish that everyone would just use IRC. I find it the most easiest and discreet way to share things and ideas among a group.
- mileszs 18y agoYou can do something like this with FriendFeed. We use it for a programming user group. The feature is called 'FriendFeed Rooms' (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/overview http://friendfeed.com/rooms/overview). You can create a room for each group (public or private). Use the bookmarklet (http://friendfeed.com/share/bookmarklet http://friendfeed.com/share/bookmarklet) to post links to any room, as well as add your own comments to the link. Users can get their FriendFeed mailed to them, if they wish. Or, you can make the room public, and they can visit it at their leisure, without signing up. I recommend giving FriendFeed a second chance as an app, in any case. Every once in a while I come across another feature that I wish FriendFeed did that it does, indeed, already do. It does a ton, and it does it well. EDIT: I missed one of your needs: Yes, one can subscribe to a FriendFeed Room's feed in a feed reader (that reads Atom-formatted feeds). It can also be read via Facebook.
- JustAGeek 18y agoAh, looks like I misunderstood the name "Rooms" I was under the impression it was some sort of discussion forum and thus didn't even followed that link. Will check if it's that's what I need, thanks!
- rokhayakebe 18y agoMaybe http://SocialBrowse.com http://SocialBrowse.com
- JustAGeek 18y agoThat comes pretty close - if only had the possibility to group followers. During my test drive with that addon I couldn't find such a feature. :(
- scrhoads 18y agoMy old company koollage.com can do something pretty close to this (if not exactly what you want). It never started up due to the usual list of reasons, but it's still running on a server. Check out the tour (http://www.koollage.com/tour.html#share http://www.koollage.com/tour.html#share), there should be info on groups. If you have some questions or want more info, PM me or reply to this post.
- JustAGeek 18y agoThanks, that indeed seems to be what I need - except that I couldn't quite understand whether the people I want to share with also have to register at koollage.com or they could simply subscribe to a RSS feed. And then, it's of course a bit risky to use that service when it might be shut down any moment.
- teej 18y agoTwitter the link with #groupname? It's instant, it's easy, there's a client on every platform, they can go to the group page (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23groupname http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23groupname) and subscribe to the group feed (http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23groupname http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23groupname). It's simple, has 100% of the functionality you're looking for, and it works.
- Xichekolas 18y agoOnly caveat is you have to get your friends to join #groupname... you can't arbitrarily say your friend Joe is a member of both #coworkers and #friends... he has to join those groups. That may be really obvious, but getting everyone you know to self-categorize for your convenience can be a challenge. Being able to label someone for your own purposes is much easier.
- teej 18y agoIf you explicitly had that need, I feel like a mailing list could serve the same purpose. That being said, I feel like you could set up something to email-blast a group of people with your latest links from twitter for that group.
- JustAGeek 18y agoAh, yes, that could work, too. However, wouldn't everybody (those who I didn't tell to subscribe to my group page) following my twitter account get those tweets?
- teej 18y agoUnless you have an explicit need to hide x group's links from y group, you shouldn't have an issue. If you clearly state "here's the group link page. Use it" and they go there and they subscribe, it's all good. You don't need to control people (no! You can't follow my twitter account!) you just need to provide value (Here's my group link page, with all your shiny links).
- abyssknight 18y agoMagnolia was great, well, until it crashed. You could start groups and share each link with the group(s) you wanted to.
- JustAGeek 18y agoWell, I guess I'll bookmark it and testdrive it once it's back. Thanks! :D
- nicoladagostino 18y agoI'v been doing exactly that with delicious for the last three or four years. Use a specific tag (or combination of tags, is you like versatility and modularity) and then give to the people/group the url of the delicious page (or feed) for that tag. You can also use Feedburner (or Feedblitz) and make it available as a email newsletter. Nicola D'Agostino
- Shooter 18y agoI don't have the time to confirm it for sure right now, unfortunately, but I think http://sqworl.com http://sqworl.com could be used for something along those lines.
- JustAGeek 18y agoHm, hard to tell from their homepage and they don't offer a tour or something. But it looks more like a tool to somehow create personalized homepages.
- chanux 18y agoI think identi.ca has better way of handling groups. Just check it out http://identi.ca http://identi.ca .
- JustAGeek 18y agoTotally forgot identi.ca! Will probably be one of the things to consider when deciding for a final solution! Thanks!
- rog211 18y agoI created a tool for exactly this purpose. http://www.peerviewr.com http://www.peerviewr.com. It is very early and very rough, but the goal is to solve the problem you mention. It allows you to post links, youtube links, upload files and pictures, and create blog posts. You can share within your group only or it can be made public. It is basically a combination between Google Groups and Wordpress. I would love to make it grow with your feedback. I call it Glogger, but the only domain I had available was at: http://www.peerviewr.com http://www.peerviewr.com Again pls let me know what you think I believe it is useful and would be fun to make it grow. If you have any feedback feel free to email me at: support@skuttlefish.com or just post here to HN.
- JustAGeek 18y agoGreat will check it out, thanks!
- arien 18y agoI'm working on something like this on my spare time, since I also wanted something with this functionality, amongst other things. If you want to talk about it or want me to send you word when/if I finish it, let me know how can I contact you :)
- JustAGeek 18y agoYou can send me an email to kiltec{a t}gmx.de
- hotpockets 18y agocan't you use google reader for this? Just make up some unguessable name for each group. No one could find the shared links unless they know the tagname. (Pretty sure, not 100%). You can get anything into google reader. For instance you see something shareable online, then just use google notebook to save it to the appropriate tag.
- asdasd3w 17y agowww.goldword.com
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- asdasd3w 17y agoOh now i go it...http://www.goldword.com http://www.goldword.com! sorry.