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Why would someone prefer this bookmarking service over Delicious.com ??

by dxjones 17y ago

joshu 17y ago
Because delicious is daunting, complicated, and scary. It's also not really "bookmarks" and more of a place to put foraged links.
- greyman 17y ago
  No, it's not daunting, complicated, nor scary. And it's bookmarklet for adding bookmark is very similar to this one. Now, really, why whould you use this over delicious?
  - joshu 17y ago
    The sharing thing is terrifying for "regular" users. Privacy is almost always seen as a plus. The UI is radically more complex than necessary. There's a thousand things wrong. It could be better. Bonus hint: Check my profile.
    - greyman 17y ago
      Oh, Jushua itself. Sorry, didn't recognize you from the nickname. ;-) I for one am still a del.icio.us user. Despite Yahoo screwing up your ingenious design (and URL name ;-)), the service still works for me. So far, so good.
stcredzero 17y ago
Because sometimes, you just want to put bookmarks on the web for yourself. Delicious leaves something to be desired as a bookmark organizer. For organizing things for myself, I'd rather have folders than tags.
- joshu 17y ago
  Now now, let's not go too far.
- mattyb 17y ago
  I've traditionally used Foxmarks (now called Xmarks) for organization (it allows me to access my bookmarks when I'm in the computer lab at school, for example), and recently created a Delicious account because my.foxmarks is awful. I've found about 100 great links in the past few days just by checking out the collections of folks who share lots of my bookmarks. I hate that you can't view popular tag combinations (only recent or personal ones), but perhaps this will come. I'd kill to have something that syncs my bookmarks, passwords and history, and also analyzes the data somehow. Mozilla Weave is on the right track as far as syncing history, but buggy for me. A Foxmarks/Weave/Google Web History/RescueTime combo, perhaps. With an Awesome Bar-like search UI and interesting analytics. And web-based so I can access this stuff from afar. I think an FF extension would be necessary to sync the data, but it'd be great if it could comb data even when I'm using IE in a computer lab [security issues abound, I know].
  - mattyb 17y ago
    Note: I would bend over backwards to pay for something like this. Somebody make this something that I want. To those that are about to tell me to make it myself, I'm not quite there yet. Soon though ;-)

Why would someone prefer this bookmarking service over Delicious.com ??

by dxjones 17y ago

Why would someone prefer this bookmarking service over Delicious.com ??

joshu 17y ago

Because delicious is daunting, complicated, and scary. It's also not really "bookmarks" and more of a place to put foraged links.

greyman 17y ago
No, it's not daunting, complicated, nor scary. And it's bookmarklet for adding bookmark is very similar to this one. Now, really, why whould you use this over delicious?
- joshu 17y ago
  The sharing thing is terrifying for "regular" users. Privacy is almost always seen as a plus. The UI is radically more complex than necessary. There's a thousand things wrong. It could be better. Bonus hint: Check my profile.
  - greyman 17y ago
    Oh, Jushua itself. Sorry, didn't recognize you from the nickname. ;-) I for one am still a del.icio.us user. Despite Yahoo screwing up your ingenious design (and URL name ;-)), the service still works for me. So far, so good.

stcredzero 17y ago

Because sometimes, you just want to put bookmarks on the web for yourself. Delicious leaves something to be desired as a bookmark organizer. For organizing things for myself, I'd rather have folders than tags.

joshu 17y ago
Now now, let's not go too far.
mattyb 17y ago
I've traditionally used Foxmarks (now called Xmarks) for organization (it allows me to access my bookmarks when I'm in the computer lab at school, for example), and recently created a Delicious account because my.foxmarks is awful. I've found about 100 great links in the past few days just by checking out the collections of folks who share lots of my bookmarks. I hate that you can't view popular tag combinations (only recent or personal ones), but perhaps this will come. I'd kill to have something that syncs my bookmarks, passwords and history, and also analyzes the data somehow. Mozilla Weave is on the right track as far as syncing history, but buggy for me. A Foxmarks/Weave/Google Web History/RescueTime combo, perhaps. With an Awesome Bar-like search UI and interesting analytics. And web-based so I can access this stuff from afar. I think an FF extension would be necessary to sync the data, but it'd be great if it could comb data even when I'm using IE in a computer lab [security issues abound, I know].
- mattyb 17y ago
  Note: I would bend over backwards to pay for something like this. Somebody make this something that I want. To those that are about to tell me to make it myself, I'm not quite there yet. Soon though ;-)