[IxDA Discuss] Bookmarks Managment Brainstorming

[Dave Chiu]

I like that del.icio.us is lightweight, but the killer feature in  
Ma.gnolia (at least for me) is that it saves a copy of the page you  
bookmarked. So even if someone makes a change or the page later  
disappears, you still have the content you originally bookmarked.  
People seem to forget that the web is a dynamic environment where  
things appear and disappear in the blink of an eye.

I switched to Ma.gnolia after I bookmarked a couple of sites with  
del.icio.us for future reading, only to have them disappear later.  
While Ma.gnolia doesn't fix link-rot, it helps to mitigate its  
effects: I guess you could look at it as a highly-personalized  
Internet Archive.

Personally, I think the archiving feature is the most important  
aspect of bookmarking, regardless of what service you use, perhaps  
even more important than the social aspects. What's the point of  
bookmarking something if I can't retrieve it later?

(Note that because of copyright issues, the archived copy of a site  
is available on Ma.gnolia only to the person who made the bookmark.)

Dave Chiu

On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Leisa Reichelt wrote:

> Another vote for Del.icio.us + Firefox + the Del.icio.us Add-on  
> from me.
>
> I did toy with Ma.gnolia briefly, but didn't see any real advantage
> over Del.icio.us to make it worth the move.
>
> Since using Del.icio.us I have almost entirely abandoned bookmarks as
> I used to use them (to remember sites where I'd found valuable
> information). Bookmarks have now become, for me, quick starts for all
> the web applications that I use on a daily basis. Del.icio.us is like
> my 'library' now.
>
> In addition to the benefits of being web based and networked, I also
> find that the tagging navigation makes my links much more
> 'retrieveable' than the 'folder' structure of traditional bookmarks.
> ________________________
> Leisa Reichelt
> User Experience Consultant
>
> leisa.reichelt at gmail.com
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