This week I discovered personalized homepages. Does everyone else on the internet know about these things, except me? How far behind behind am I? Three years? Three months? Where have I been? I feel so draconian. But now, I have no need for anything other than my cozy little page - where the world comes to ME. The way it ought to. *cough*
However, I'm still trying to figure out del.icio.us - I totally don't get it. It's just The Wonderful World of Bookmarks, right? What's the dealio? ...?
Personalized homepages are really just portals (like excite from the 90s - remember them?) in a new jacket. Google and Microsoft and a few others (undoubtedly) have been rolling out these new versions over the last ~6 months I think? The only difference now is that they're being populated by feeds.
For me, the point with del.icio.us is populico.us - http://populicio.us/newlinks.html - see the aggregate interesting hot new stuff that's out there. Also good sometimes when there's a specific event to have a "planet" set up, where the del.icio.us bookmarks on that subject are being shown next to the flickr photos and the regular weblog posts about it. (But it's all too often all too limited still, in that only the feeds from those specific services are used, rather than some broader service-agnostic ones. It'll yet come, I'm sure.)
Anyway, very little benefit in del.icio.us for the individual - other than automated backup and perhaps a nicer way to organize - but lots of benefits through the aggregate.
Posted by: Sander | on June 3, 2006 02:34 AM