Solo Technology

In response to an old post about OnlyWire, I received a comment today about a new service called ListMixer. (yeah, I know he’s marketing, but the approach always works on me!) Similar concept to Onlywire and, after just a little bit of messing around, seems like a good implementation. It appears that we’re trying to solve a couple different problems with this one:

1. Am I really sure I’m going to use or want this bookmark later?
2. I use multiple social bookmarking sites; help!

With ListMixer, you use the provided bookmarklet to save sites. At that time you can optionally adds some tags and a description. Anything you mark this way will live for 30 days — or, if you use the link, it gets a 30 day extension. If you like the link, you can send it to one or more of your “major” social bookmarking sites (blinklist, simpy, del.icio.us, spurl, newsvine, furl, reddit, yahoo and fark. (fark?!?)). So, in essence, we have a “bookmark gatekeeper” now.

Other features I noticed include the ability to get RSS feeds, other folks can be invited to join in “the mix”, and bloggers can add a link roll. The developer also has a topic specific blog.

What would I like to see added? At the moment, just a few things leap to mind:

1. Ability to delete a link instead of waiting for it to age off after 30 days
2. I should caveat by saying I’m on this fence about this one. The way tags are used with this are a bit goofy… well, not tags. “tag” You get one.
   So part of me would like to ask for features along the lines of, “show me all the tags I’ve used when I’m bookmarking a site.” But yet, the whole idea here is to just capture a mark and let me move it to other sites later. So… maybe I’d do my tagging at that point? For me, probably yes.
3. I like the spartan interface, but omg — where’s the web 2.0 big fonts and rounded buttons? Needs more green and orange! hehe

I like it. I’m thinking this would be a way better way for me to handle my “toRead” tag that is so woefully neglected at blinklist… instead of blinking it, I’ll throw it at ListMixer. Clock starts and I have 30 days to come back, review and make a decision. Being able to sort that list by dates is pretty handy too…

7 Responses to “ListMixer for bookmarks”

1. Rich G. on February 24th, 2006 8:05 pm
   

   and by thirty seconds I’m sure you mean 30 days? Otherwise that’s one heckuva tight window of opportunity lol.

2. chris on February 24th, 2006 8:07 pm
   

   err, yeah. oops! Fixed

3. Mike on February 25th, 2006 12:43 am
   

   Why do you need links to expire? Why is a “toread” or “QuickBlink” not good enough? I am not sure why using a different service than BlinkList is necessary. I thought that is what the QuickBlink bookmarklet in BlinkList was for. If it does not serve the purpose well, can you please let me know what is missing so that we can improve it. Mike

4. » pingback » Solo Technology :: Blog Archive :: In response to a comment on the ListMixer post on February 25th, 2006 9:10 pm
   
   
5. Sid Steward on February 26th, 2006 9:04 am
   

   Thanks for the thoughtful ListMixer writeup! Following your list of suggestions:

   1) I plan to add link a deletion feature soon.

   2) There is a ‘Tag Pick List’ drop-down where you can select tags you’ve used before. Might this help, here? Is it failing you somehow?

   3) I plan to add more styling options, esp. for link rolls.

   Cheers- Sid

6. Sid Steward on February 28th, 2006 4:27 pm
   

   ListMixer link deletion and editing features went live yesterday. Use your bookmarklet to open your Mix, then hover over a link to see these new options. Thx- Sid

7. » pingback » Solo Technology :: Blog Archive :: Goowy and ListMixer - features on March 1st, 2006 7:25 pm
   
   

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