[clue-tech] Google bookmarks

[Scott Kruger]

The problem is that if one has a site that took me 20 minutes of hard
googling to find, and I need to find it a few months later, what is the
best way of handling it?  Currently I'm trying out furl.net (note .net
and not .com) and del.icio.us   

furl is slicker and has an archive feature that is killer, but
del.icio.us is more open and has a better tagging system.  del.icio.us
is currently useful just as a way of seeing what other people tag and
hence can be viewed as almost an ad hoc, dynamic dmoz.org.  The only bad
thing is that it seems that the only way of sorting the tags is by date
rather than popularity which would be more useful.

Both services are still immature, but show a lot of promise.

Scott


On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:06:54AM -0700, David Anselmi did write:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:42:05 -0700, David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> > 
> >>I like Google's interface to my bookmarks better than Mozilla's.  But I
> >>guess that's a different thread.
> > 
> > 
> > OK, I'll bite. What is Google's interface to bookmarks? I'm not at all
> > familiar with that.
> 
> Heh.  Instead of trying to organize thousands of bookmarks (i.e., sites 
> I thought were useful) in a way that I can find them again, I look them 
> up on Google.
> 
> For sites I use frequently (weekly) I usually just use the history list. 
>    There aren't that many.  For others I find it easier to remember a 
> name, a topic, or a phrase from the site and do a Google search.  Having 
> other related sites show up too is sometimes a bonus (especially when 
> the original has moved).
> 
> If I'm researching a particular topic over a few days I might bookmark 
> useful sites to refer back to.  If I run across something I really want 
> to read but don't have time right now I might bookmark it, but email is 
> usually better to remind me.
> 
> But after a few weeks, whatever was on a particular page gets stale. 
> Either I've understood it enough not to need it anymore, or something 
> else has changed to make it obsolete.  No need to clutter my bookmarks.
> 
> I suppose I'm not especially typical in my use of the WWW but that's 
> what works for me.
> 
> Dave
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