What is Digg?126 Comments
- patrickloggins, on 11/04/2007, -15/+140No, I still won't.
- Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30If it still hijacks the bookmarks tool bar, you can keep it.
I tried this a couple weeks ago and was severely pissed off until I realized it allowed me to revert the changes.
I really like the idea of having my bookmarks sync'd on del.icio.us, I really dislike the idea of it taking over my tool bar. - Umberhulk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I use Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks. Its not social, but I don't want my bookmarks to be.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20=! != !=
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -13/+30I have a de.icio.us account, but never use it.
- cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21@nepawoods:
Not necessarily. I am quite happy with just Google Sync. I don't really like del.icio.us too much. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25You're an idiot.
digg, despite what some imbeciles may think, is not a bookmarking site. It was never billed as such, and never intended as such. If it were intended as such, it failed miserably.
If you don't have a need for web-based bookmarks, the you don't have a need for del.icio.us, but many people do. I have several machines in different locations that I use regularly, and web-based bookmarks that I can access uniformly across all machines is a must-have. The 'social' aspect of it is not important to me, but even there it still has some nice qualities. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -13/+29web-based bookmarking = essential, if you use multiple machines
- finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Digg is a fun place to argue with people without all the big words that people use on Slashdot.
Get it right. - MScrip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Ummmm... I think Digg is a social NEWS website. People submit news stories and we read them.
SOCIAL = people
NEWS = news
How can I use Digg to save my bookmarks? Submit a story, wait till it reaches the front page... then?
With Digg you 'share' stories... not bookmark them for your own use later. - Sagags, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I loved using Del.icio.us because it let me have bookmarks I could access from any computer but stoped because it didnt sync with my current bookmarks. I buess im a Del.icio.us user agian
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@MBarnwell
"most diggers i actually know in real life will more often than not, digg an article to come back and fully read it later."
That might explain a lot of the crap that makes first page, that nobody would have dugg if they had read it. - quickgold192, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I used to use delicious, but Google Bookmarks has done this exact same thing for months now (including integration into firefox), so delicious really doesn't have anything to offer. The only difference is that google bookmarks are strictly private but you can still use them across machines, which I like because I don't want everyone knowing that I bookmarked my bank site or my email account.
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -18/+26Use of sub/domain names to spell out a word. That's borderline *****.sexu.al if you ask me.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13@hdtvdust
"So says a user on a social bookmarking site. (Seriously...what do you think Digg IS?)"
Digg is a social news site. It is useless for bookmarking. Compare what you have to do to "bookmark" a page on digg, versus what you have to do to bookmark a page on del.icio.us.
Suppose I'm viewing some random web page I want to bookmark for later revisiting.
With del.icio.us I click the del.icio.us 'tag' button in my browser, click, save, and I'm done.
To "bookmark" it on digg, I must copy the url, go to digg, log in, click "submit new story", paste the url, add a title and description, and submit. 6 months later how do I find this bookmark among all my others? Is there a search function to search just my own "bookmarks"? No. - miniboss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm trying it. But personally, I recommend foxmarks. It syncs us your bookmarks on any computer and doesnt require a whole new bookmark menu. change a bookmark on one computer and it syncs it to any other computer you're logged in to. maybe if it synced with the current bookmark bar it would be nice.
foxmarks.com - nepawoods, on 11/04/2007, -2/+8If digg is a bookmarking site:
1) How do I bookmark a page that I haven't read, but want to go back and read at another time? I don't want to submit it, or 'digg' it, because I haven't read it yet, and can't say whether I can recommend it to anyone - which is the intention of a 'digg' - a recommendation.
2) How do I search my 'bookmarks' for something I vaguely recall having bookmarked 6 months ago? - bdub92, on 11/04/2007, -2/+8Isn't there some unwritten law somewhere on digg that says you cannot post any positive news regarding redit, del.icio.us., or any other social bookmarking sight for that matter?
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+6@evolve
Yeah, bunch of noobs. Can't even remember something simple like http://www.garmin.com/support/collection.jsp?product=010-00455-00 or http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/css2/index.html? Amateurs! - FastZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I use Foxmarks as well. I really think that's the way to go if you want to share your Firefox bookmarks between different machines. Foxmarks autosyncs your book marks automagically and keeps them up to date on each machine. Definitely a good bookmark synchronization tool for you guys to look into.
- geekitechture, on 11/04/2007, -8/+11"If You Don't Use Delicious you will now"
Oh, yeah? And you and which army will make sure I...never mind, just another inaccurate and incorrect title floating around here tonight; move along people, nothing to see here. - chroko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I didn't see the point either at first. Besides finally syncing bookmarks across several machines, tagging is absolutely awesome for organization.
I have 963 bookmarks on Del.icio.us - impossible to manage that number with regular bookmarks. Many sites don't fit into a single category so you can't have them in a single place. With tagging you can tag a site with many keywords, so you're more likely to find that link your friend sent you several months back, even if you've not thought about it since. It's a brain-aid for navigating the internets.
It doesn't cost you anything (except time), so why don't you try if for yourself? - Onwlyix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Digg is a social news site. Not bookmarking, news. Get it right.
- Bishoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just started using Foxmarks and love it. I've wanted a simple bookmark synchronization add-on for a while and Foxmark is exactly what I wanted.
- jflint, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3doesn't Flock already do this?
- cubbieco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The problem here is that too many people see the digg button as their own personal bookmark. That's why some of the stupidest things get dugg all the time because of the idiots here are digging stories without even reading them.
oooooo It says Kevin Rose in the headline. I'll digg it and read it later. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3@Umberhulk
Del.icio.us lets you choose whether you want your bookmarks public or private. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -2/+5@quickgold192
Del.icio.us lets you choose whether you want bookmarks public or private. So really it's a superset of the google functionality.
To have bookmarks default to private in the FF addon, set
extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode=1
in about:config - Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Google's browser sync... why should I use Del.icio.us? Even though I have an account, I never really found the need...
- The_Dude, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2I'm practically jaded about anything to do with the net, I don't use RSS, and yet even I have delicious. The Dude abides.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Foxmarks FTW. Simply THE BEST online bookmarks synchronizer for firefox out there. Completely unobtrusive. After the initial setup, which takes hardly 30 seconds, you'll never even realize that it's installed.
- sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Real users remember ip addresses.
like, 123.456.789.001/users/~johndoe/blog/this-is-some-really-long-url-that-you-should-remember.html?a=1&asfdsaf=38384sls - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@nepawoods
Nope. PortableApps. - pardonmedoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But I like my bookmarks. I keep sites in there I want to go back to. And I don't want high school kids to dictate what's in there.
- tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google Bookmarks + Firefox RSS feed = Exactly what I need. I don't need to sync anything, or publish my personal bookmarks for the world to see.
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -1/+2@Darmichar
@strabes
I'm not sure if either of you know what you're talking about. Either that, or I'm missing something. I've been using it for a few weeks now and in that whole time, it's never "hijacked" anything. It adds a "del.icio.us" toolbar that is del.icio.us specific. But it doesn't touch the original "Bookmarks Toolbar", which seems to act just like it always did. And whether you want it to work alongside your firefox bookmarks or to take it over is a config choice it asks you on install (and you can toggle on and off later).
There are other del.icio.us addons made by other people that do different things. Either you had one of these or a really old version of the official one. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1@kungfuice
I have yet to run into this problem. I'm not saying you didn't. Just want to say that I don't think it's widespread. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1@angelamaria
Something that was buried in the help that might be applicable. If you're on the digg website and notice that the tags or cloud on the right don't seem right, try editing a bookmark and saving it. Apparently it caches the list of tags. Kinda dumb. So if you go into the settings and do something like Rename Tag, it doesn't show up in your tag list until you add/edit a bookmark. - Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't use bookmarks, which makes Delicious a venture lost.
- rushiku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I used to use del.icio.us. What a great concept: store all my bookmarks online and access them from any computer. Even better, an add-in for Firefox that allows me to use my online bookmarks from any computer like actual 'traditional' bookmarks. Unfortunately, the latter didn't exist. I see they're still insisting on the lame 'mullet' style sidebar (folders, or, FFS, cloud-view, up top, party down below).
Initially frustrated with the piss poor interface, I began production of my own Firefox sidebar - which was abandoned as soon as I learned that the del.icio.us API allows only 100 marks to be downloaded at a time (sort of hard to populate a users sidebar with all their bookmarks when you can't retrieve all their bookmarks...)
Shortly after that, I found the Gmarks sidebar, which does exactly what I wanted in the first place.
Sorry del.icio.us, great concept, poor execution. For the record, the social aspect of your offering was wasted on me, I couldn't give a rip what other people are looking at...at least, not in the 'bookmark anything and let each and every member of the community figure out for themselves if it's worthwhile' way that you've presented it. Now, if you also included the chance for an abstract of each link, and perhaps a comment thread for each one where the 'community' of users could actually 'socialize'...hmm, well, you'll have created digg...maybe it's time to think about a merger? - wounded625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i used to use delicious, now it wont let me delete tags, its really pissing me off.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So before you leave home each day, you export your bookmarks to somewhere, and likewise before you leave work each day. Doesn't sound very convenient.
- mattb5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I prefer furl.net because it will keep a copy of the web site. So if it's something I want to read later, but it disappears, I still have a copy.
- sampun00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can anyone tell me if this version supports nested folder?
If not I am going to stick with gmarks - kungfuice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This extension has some serious synchronization issues. If I make changes to my del.icio.us bookmarks on the site they revert back to old settings, if I change them in the browser they change and then revert back moments later.
I've been using Google sync for awhile and I have to say I'm disappointed by how poorly this synchronization aspect is implemented in this extension I think I'll just stick with Google, ashame since I really like delicious. - tastyterrorist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try BonEcho. http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/02/24/firefox-2002
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if i liked del.icio.us right *now* wouldn't me not liking it not be a problem?
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Darmichar: They have an old version somewhere on addons.mozilla.org which doesn't hijack your bookmarks toolbar. Pretty much all it does is add a context menu item "Tag this Page."
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ rcran
Same here until a couple of days ago I thought hey it's a good idea and then I wondered what extensions were available for Firefox that helped with del.icio.us bookmarking. The first time I bookmarked a page a popup asked if I also wanted to add it to del.icio.us, hmmm this could be good.
btw but doesn't del.icio.us almost seem like digg? Many people bookmark interesting pages is sort of like digging a story except for the comment part. - unrealmp3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I prefer Mozilla Firefox & Gmarks extension
Keeps my bookmarks private, and good enough for a power user. -
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