So del.icio.us is three.
Not only that but they have added the concept of friends; by added I really mean, I have just noticed it. ;-) This is because they linked to it in the birthday post, of course, but for all I know this feature’s been around for awhile.
This is actually a concept I’ve been thinking about for awhile. I abandoned digg awhile back as useless, and have now abandoned reddit as well as it’s become too political (ok, I’ll be honest — too political in that I don’t like the prevailing winds of reddit’s politics. Therefore I don’t care to read it). Slashdot is still a constant, and del.icio.us/popular is always usually interesting.
But what I’ve been wanting is a way to combine the MySpace concept of a “friends” network with the del.icio.us concept of bookmarks. It seemed like this would be an easy way to share what I’ve found interesting online (since I don’t always want to explicitly link to every single thing I read), as well as to see what other more-or-less like-minded folks have found interesting. I have even contemplated building such a thing as a small PHP project (the choice of PHP might deserve a post some other time — nothing profound, just some observations on ubiquity) — however, my noticing this feature in del.icio.us would render this particular itch scratched, and would probably cause me not to bother with this project.
If people begin to use it, I would think that this feature would combine the best features of MySpace’s “friends” (while avoiding the MySpace ugly-pages-syndrome) with the convenience and current feature set of del.icio.us.
My del.icio.us bookmarks can be found under phil.crissman; if you are a del.icio.us user and a reader, feel free to add me to your network; I’d happily reciprocate, since I’d most likely be more interested in what you’re looking at than what the reddit/digg/etc swarm are looking at anyways…
This no-more-blogging thing is working out quite well. For some reason deciding to quit for awhile made it that much easier to write. Is that weird, or what?
