Something’s Going On at BlinkList
Posted on September 7, 2006
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There’s an odd post up at the BlinkList blog titled “The End of Social Bookmarking (at BlinkList)“. As a BlinkList user, this is a bit disconcerting…
How’s the “Social Bookmarking” game coming along?
Whether or not you are one of the “social bookmarking” players, or an observer, you have to admit… it sucks.
Even the name “social bookmarking” sucks. Bring that up to impress your date!
“Bookmarking” is no fun. And it’s associated with clutter. To go from “bookmarking” which is boring and tedious to “social bookmarking” just alienates even more users because people only get the boring part. [...]
Hrmm… this follows announcements about recent improvements and changes. More speed, improved look and feel, more RSS feeds, etc. And this:
What’s next? There is a lot more to come! The next major improvement will be “BlinkList Spaces” which we alluded to in another post and which we hope to be launching shortly.
Another hrmm… BlinkList Spaces? While wondering that that is, I wandered over to the BlinkList google group and found this post inquiring about “Domain Tags” and their purpose. “Mike” answered twice (or two people are using the “Mike” account!) but the second response was this:
We have had to take this out since this is for a new “super cool” feature we will be rolling out shortly. It has to do with “BlinkList Spaces” but I cannot yet reveal anymore info.
Curiouser and curiouser. Should be interesting to see where this ends up — as long as I can still user it for bookmarking!
Tags: BlinkList, bookmarks, social-software, web2.0
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Hi, I am the user who inquired about the domain tags! I am getting curious too. I just love blinklist.
Heyas Dawn. I’m a BlinkList fan too - for bookmarking. I’m very curious to see where they take it next…
I love it for the bookmarking too. And for finding new and interesting sites. I added you too. I am deeizak.
Hi there. If you would like to give BlinkList Spaces a test drive just let me know. That is what these “domain tags” are for. Also, we have a lot more exciting innovation in the pipeline. As you can tell from our posts!
We just launched BlinkList Spaces and Internationalization and now it is back to basics and some exciting improvements that I cannot yet say any more about. However, you will always be able to blink and use BlinkList for bookmarking. Those are our roots and we are about to make it even better.
Hi Mike, appreciate the feedback.
I created my own BlinkList Space a couple weeks after this post (towards end of September). Kinda nifty.