Bookmark Management discussions: Not dead yet. Related to a previous post on claims for desktop Google..... Interesting links to alternative bookmark management. Social classification scheme (folksonomy), tag-based bookmarking, bookmark management improvement and evolution.

Tag-based bookmarking in a browser and why people need bookmarking.

Tom Coates on tag-based bookmarks in browsers (via Brian Dennis) - applying del.icio.us tag-bookmarking model to a browser:

To summarise the problems with current bookmarking systems then, we could say that (1) the process is slow and annoying (2) that it requires us to continually refine and redevelop our taxonomies if we're going to keep track of everything, (3) that URLs can belong in a number of bins and that (4) we can be left with unmanageably large lists. An ideal system would therefore speed the process up of both bookmarking a site and retrieving it later. An ideal system would try to alleviate the problems of categorisation and would work as an a priori assumption that a URL might wish to be stored in multiple bins. An ideal system would not display all the links by default. An ideal system would, in fact, use tags...

Tom provides a whole scenario and mock-ups of tag-based bookmarks in a browers... What I'd add is that we need to think broader than easy classification, bookmarking and finding. The study I blogged almost a year ago (Keeping found things found on the web) suggest that when deciding what to do with interesting web-pages people may think about:

• Portability - being able to take it with you
• Number of access points - being able to access information from different locations
• Preservation of information in its current state
• Currency of information - having updated version of information
• Context - remembering why it was saved
• Reminding - remembering that something has to be done with it
• Ease of integration into existing structures (e.g. e-mail with link can be easily archived with other e-mails, while bookmarks have their own structure)
• Communication and information sharing
• Ease of maintenance

From this perspective del.icio.us would be more powerful than tagged bookmarks in a browser :)

And, have no idea how I missed folksonomy as a new term for it :)

See also (re: more things to do with tags): LiveTopics wishlist or topic-based blogging support

11:13:26 PM    

Color Scheme Site

Not an offical looking post, but found this useful site when fooling around with colors and wanted to share...

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