Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'myFavorites'
What's Social Bookmarking Again?
In the video below, Lee breaks down the mechanics, how-to, and advantages of social bookmarking over using plain old web browser favorites or bookmarks.
On The Product Blogs
A round-up of what's happening on the EarthLink product blogs
Watch the Halloween Tag in myFavorites
Check on what people are finding online related to "halloween" at the myFavorites Halloween tag page. It's good for last-minute costume tips, recipes, spooky web applications, and impressive pumpkin feats. Here are some of the finds I've added there:
EarthLink/Helio Round-up
A few updates from the last couple of weeks: Helio Hybrid launches - Hybrid is a new wireless access plan, hardware, and software that lets you connect to the internet via your own regular Wi-Fi if you have it at...
Best myFavorites Public Tag Yet
When I saw the Applemaggots tag in myFavorites last night, I guess I assumed it was some enthusiastic Apple computer hater. But it turns out that Paul L, whoever and wherever he is, has collected some extensive information about maggots that hang around apples. I love that.
Friday Heh Round-up
The heh level in my myFavorites bookmarks is reaching dangerouly high levels. It's again time to spill them out onto Earthling.
Importing From Del.icio.us
I hadn't seen how myFavorites handles importing your data from del.icio.us prior to Friday. Seeing it in action really pleased me, in terms of both the user interface and the way it talks to you. The language is plain and direct and friendly, and the information is organized in a way that's easy to understand at a glance. Here's a peek at it, cropped and resized. Click it to see an un-resized version:
Framing myFavorites
Ok, so myFavorites. It's no secret on Earthling that I'm a huge fan of Yahoo's social bookmarking site http://del.icio.us. It's become about as indispensable to me as e-mail, for keeping track of all of the stuff I find online and that people point out to me. I also use it to discover other people's finds, but the part I can't do without is the ability to categorize and hold on to URL's and find them again later. EarthLink saw this as a tool that could be helpful to a much wider set of users than even necessarily knows it exists right now. I think once you're exposed to the simplicity and discoverability of a del.icio.us, it's tough to ever want to go back to browser bookmarks again. And in our internal testing, it was clear to me that in addition to individuals, companies can benefit from its use because when you have a pool of like-minded users, the list of bookmarks they create is really valuable. I'd like for us to be able to offer the public a feed of the things we tag as important.
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