Comments on: Amen

By: rob

rob — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:25:38 +0000

Not that different from “real life”, really- few of us are really one single personality- think of keeping your work friends separate from your non-work friends, for instance.
Why should things be any different on-line?
What we really need is software to keep all our lies straight.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:45:17 +0000

Ah, I see that ‘Skype’ is now a verb…

By: MK

MK — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:15:23 +0000

hi Rob – it’s true, it might simply be that the del.icio.us features for posting to blogs is limited, rather than the service itself. an interesting question.
Joanna – (we need to Skype) – and whoa – I didn’t know – if that is true, some users will hit that limit very soon…. and multiple accounts will be a matter of archiving for some users.

By: Joanna Briggs

Joanna Briggs — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:03:34 +0000

I think you may have more foresight than you think. I heard last week that del.icio.us has a ceiling of 5000 bookmarks.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:19:56 +0000

A related niggle is that of managing several different types of account which overlap. To which do you give priority? For example, I’ve got a blog, a del.icio.us account and a YouTube account (no Flickr yet, but I’m pondering). If I see something interesting on YouTube, I sometime ‘add to my favourites’ there, and sometimes I add it as a del.icio.us link. Occasionally I might embed the link in a blog post.

Rarely, however, will I duplicate the effort and save it as a YouTube favourite and a del.icio.us link, say.

Perhaps Web 3.0 will allow bookmarking and tagging in one type of account to automatically add the same link to other types of account?

Reagrding your del.icio.us woes, your problem there is just to do with the limited ‘post to your blog’ service that del.icio.us offers. What they need are two wee features: one which allows you to set which tag or tags are published; and one which allows you to set the frequency with which the publishing occurs. I’m sure they’ll come online soon.