Techcrunch says;

This is a fairly unique product - part del.icio.us/popular
and part Digg, and based on tags. On the front page of Buzz are very
popular recent bookmarked sites. But there is a “Buzz” area for each
tag as well. Just type in bluedot.us/buzz/[TAG] to see it. Here’s the TechCrunch page, for example.

http://www.techcrunch.com/

I have a delicious account, but rarely use it. I bookmark it locally. I think I missed the whole social thing.

What do you use?

(Sorry, the post about is about Blue Dot) 

http://www.bluedot.us/

I'm going to give BlueDot a whirl, but I use delicious v heavily  - I like being able to assign multiple categories to a page by way of the tags

I find these days that there are too many sites that have just jumped on the whole "community" market.

They are all trying to promote their exit barriers... a concept heavily used by yahoo, to keep users on their applications... I mean where do you store your photo's ? mySpace or Flickr? it seems most of these comunity type sites have the same sort of shit these days... trying to get you to put your whole life on line.. friends, photos, videos.. your diary(blog)... they are all just exit barriers to keep you on their sites and looking at their adsense accounts...

Yeah, i think it's a bit of a bandwagon fad. Like most of them, there is some merit, but they are chased so flippantly that it's shallow and pointless.

I use Flickr and I don't get into the community much - or so I think. ?but I do blog from the community, add comments, add contacts occassionally,a nd I guess all my pics are added to the community. Hmmm. i don't think my pics are blogged that often. Let me check. Yeah, about 50 times about of about 4,000 pics.  

I'm still waiting for a killer bookmarking solution. While del.icio.us is nice, it doesn't go far enough. I want my soltion integrated into my browser, del.icio.us sort of does this. I want my solution to auto add sites that I visist frequently.

... and to suggest sites I should visit based on my previous purchases... err I mean visits

I don't even want suggestions. I just want the products sent to me and my credit card billed. They just turn up at your door and you go "Wow, that's great, this is exactly what I need".

Here is what I use for bookmarketing;

1. Most important links get on my link bar in fire fox. If they get there, they are gold and I use them each week. In the list is gmail, my blog, google blog search, flickr, jira, confluence, tangler.com, tangler login, meetup, pandora, last FM, magnolia, youtube, sydney transport, the onion, ze frank, typepad, digg, techmeme, springwise, remember the milk, world clock, kiva, babelfish.

2. Less important ones get into a folder on that link bar. e.g. search (yellow pages, google video), Blogs (tier 2 blogs), MJL (my stuff), Tangler, Mac. 

3. Random things I might put in actual bookmarks but I rarely look in there so its a black hole.

I want companies to look at the sites I visit and just send me free shit.

like a new BMW motorbike...

and a media gate

and various iother coll shit I want but can't afford.

* various other cool shit*

There is an Australian entry to this market. It's called Buzka - www.buzka.com

I had a chat with the founders the other day and they have some interesting ideas on online bookmarking.

I typed in "j2me" and got back.

That's yuck. It should provide marked up google search results. Right now it's useless.

Apparently they can't find anything on 'Java'.

I use delicious. I will give a shot to blue dot and buzka though.Another website for storing your bookmarks that looks interesting is Pocket . I can't say much about it as I didn't tested it...

magnolia is pretty good as well...

i subscribe to as few magnolia rss feeds from other people - nice way to stay up to date on something

I use diigo

Love it! 

indeed, diigo is the best!

I'm glad you mentioned diigo, it's great. I actually use delicious for bookmarking, but diigo for everything else; link blogging, forwarding pages, etc.

why still use delicious for bookmarking?

diigo has everything delicious has, and more

I really like the firefox plugin for delicious. When I use google reader, I can right-click tag the link rather than opening the page and tagging. That saves a lot of time for me.

good point. thanks.

anything else?

the plugin's auto-completing search tool and the fact that tags are indexed by google desktop...

sound useful. I will check out the plugin. do I have to use a particular google desktop module? and what do we get out having the tags indexed by google desktop?

I'm using the Mac OS X version of GD. It's pretty plain compared to the Win versions.

If I search for a topic say, freelance, my delicious tags for freelance will be really high in the search results as well as anything else on my drive or in cache. Typically, I'm looking for things that I remember tagging or storing in the past. I try to tag by considering how I'll be searching for it in the future; not necessarily what it "is".

If delicious tags were not indexed, I'd search my desktop; then my tags; then the Internet...  An outward spiral of increasing generality. GD just wraps those into a single search.

great tips. thanks

I also like toread. I keep their bookmarklet on the toolbar. One click and it delivers the current page to my gmail account where I have a filter to tag it "toread".  Avoids having to keep so many tabs open to things I want to get to later.

Slightly OT --

@Mick - I just read your Jan post and saw that you have pandora and last.fm on your "golden" toolbar list. Check out pandoraFM. It scrobbles your pandora station to last.fm. Very nice mashup and worthy of the toolbar, IMO.

Well, looking through this topic, I think Diigo is the winner for me.

a good way to share/bookmark any rss content is Google reader - you can share easily any posts you like via email, delicious, reddit, digg, etc

I use and very much like delicious - I don't use the social networking aspect of it at all but it is a great repository from which one finds intresting bits of information; I also use the subscription feature to find (being a student), for example, the most bookmarked sites for essay competitions and research opportunities and what not that I may be interested in - this is important to me and I find it helpful. And above all, it's interface for organization of mass numbers of bookmarks is great in my opinion. Works well enough for me.

What I want to see is Google Reader enabling a better social bookmarking utility.  Like delicious and others, I would like to see the most popular stories read in Reader.  It shouldn't be that complicated to implement seeing as though they already have abilities such as Shared and Starred items.

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I use del.icio.us to store anything I can't commit to memory. I'd use Google Bookmarks, but the Firefox Extension for del.icio.us is the gamewinner for me.

I've actually moved away from online bookmarking..... ( i used to be both a massive user  del,icio.us and was starting to get into Ma.gnolia.com but found a better solution for my needs).

I use a desktop application (EvernNotes) and copy/paste chunks of the web page to it...besides pasting the clip, it automatically appends the URL of the source page.. Best of all, it does a great job of picking up images as well as text...

Then it allows me to categorize/tag... or it can automatically tag if  I choose to have it look for keywords in a clip...

I find having the bits available off line is handy but the real reason is that it lets me save the crux of what i want to see -- permanently --- and not be at the mercy of the web site owner -- if they change/delete/archive or just fade away totally I still have my clip.

What I miss doing this, of course, is the ability to have others searching out the neat stuff for me (ie. using their tags to find new stuff for me).

you should really try diigo. it is online bookmarking, but when you highlight stuff on the pages, it effectively clips  it too. You can make as many highlights on a page as you want.  also, it fetches the whole page in background.

I've used others like it in the past as well.... on a quick demo I couldn't see that it was a leap ahead from some of the tools I've used, but I'll play with it a bit more... thanks for the pointer.

it is not a leap forward in terms of bookmarking.  but it is probably a big step forward if you want more than bookmarking -- they allow persistent highlights and sticky notes on any web page.

just trying out delicous. y, their extension is really good.

i wouldn't really care what bookmarking site was behind the ff extension (written by Yahoo, I believe). i never have to go outside of the browser.

I happen to use google bookmarks, as of recently.  It's fairly simple, allows tagging, and with the google bookmark maker in my toolbar it makes it quick and easy.

I don't use online bookmarking at all. Anything I need/want to keep goes into the browser bmks...

What's the advantage of using online bmks?  From what I can tell, you can tag it. Is that it?

I also just use the plain old garden variety browser bookmarks, the only online component is keeping them in sync between 2 computers with the FF extension Foxmarks

ahhh... that's a good point

I my two major tagging systems I use (these are for the desktop app for notes that I use mainly for clipping and reference purposes; I use a different desktop app for my reasearch/writing efforts that I don't show here)

Homegrown system (desktop app; 2 different file sets):

1. about 1,000 tags related to Tangler items I want to track
2. about 3100 tags describing  the ~3700 items that I have kept a clip & URL for.

On Del.ici.ous I have about:

• 1200 web items tagged
• 34 tag groups (groups of tags - my own classification system to 'clump' tags into fields of interest)
• ~  600  different tags used to  flag items of interest (guesstimate)
• gazillions = count of tags actually used (well almost... I'd guess that a typical item I have has somewhere between 3 - 5 tags)

Perhaps the major advantage of the online systems is that when you go to tag an item they will show you tags that others have used to tag the same item and more importantly tags that you have used on similar items....so you can point and click and get some consistency in the tags you use.

To say the least, it would be somewhat difficult to use the built in facility of the browser to manage either of these collections.

Yeah, for sure....

Holy mother of.... that's a lot of items!