Random Notes from Tag Tuesday

September 28, 2005 in firefox, google, mozilla, tags

Just a bunch of random thoughts from conversations I had at Tag Tuesday.

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Mozilla makes $45M a year… I wish I had stuck with NewsMonster.

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We need a Ping-O-Matic style site for social bookmarking sites. There’s no reason all this bookmark data should only be sent to Delicious. Anyone care to write a slick in-browser Ajax app as a bookmarklet? I think it would be possible. I’m looking at you Brad Neuberg! Seems like this would make a good case study of a 100% in-browser app and totally possible I think.

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If you do the math Google makes $0.10 per search. Pretty damn good if you ask me!

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Kevin Marks notes the Future of Television conference. Looks interesting. Brewster is giving a keynote which is pretty sweet.

7 Replies

  1. Quinton

    September 28, 2005 at 7:38 am

    Would pinging all the bookmark sites really be a good idea?

    Have you seen some of the useless stuff people are tagging?

    On the subject of tagging if you havent already check this analysis out, its very interesting..
    http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html

  2. Ho John Lee

    September 28, 2005 at 8:42 am

    Here’s a client side hack for posting to multiple bookmarking sites:

    Link

    I like using del.icio.us because it’s achieved some user mass, but bits of my tagging wish list are available elsewhere.

  3. Mike

    September 28, 2005 at 9:09 am

    Hmm… I am also not sure if having one bookmarklet tool to submit sites to multiple social bookmarking engines is a good idea since that might be a problem with spammers. They sure would love to have such a tool. Then again, if this would be a way to get more del.iciou.us users to try out http://www.blinklist.com, then I would be all for it.

    However, why not simply export / import the XML file to test out and try new services and then stick with the one you like the most? Mike

  4. Otis Gospodnetic

    September 28, 2005 at 11:11 am

    Quinton: have you seen some of the stuff people are blogging? Same situation, same problems.

    There is somebody cooking something like what you described, Kevin….

  5. Kevin Burton

    September 28, 2005 at 11:15 am

    Otis: Thanks! URL ? If something’s being cooked I’d love to taste test.

  6. Brad Neuberg

    September 30, 2005 at 3:45 pm

    Kevin, I recently found a way to have huge, arbitrarily sized bookmarklets. This would be one of the keys in making the kind of sophisticated bookmarklet you mentioned. The details are here:

    “AJAX: Creating Huge Bookmarklets” - http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/08/ajax-creating-huge-bookmarklets.html

    I’m willing to create what Kevin proposes if there is a financial sponsor. The pieces are all in place.

  7. Kevin Burton

    September 30, 2005 at 3:48 pm

    Brad,

    Financial sponsor?! It’s ALL about money with you Open Source hippie types! :)

    Kevin

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