Welcome to the myFavorites Product Blog
Glad you found us!
My name is Travis Metcalf and I'm the product manager for myFavorites. We have spent months developing it and are very happy to add it to the existing line up of EarthLink products and services. We hope you enjoy using it.
This blog is the place where we'd like to host conversations about the myFavorites application. It’s our sincere hope that you talk back to us (via comments on this blog) and tell us what you'd like to see in the product moving forward, what you think is broken, and last but not least, what you like about the application.
Currently, myFavorites is in 'beta', which means we are still making significant changes to the application to improve its’ features and functionality.
That's all I've got for now. As we ready our next myFavorites release, I’ll update you with what changes and improvements it includes.
In the meantime, if you have any suggestions we’d be glad to entertain the idea of adding them to the product at some point. We already have lots on the product roadmap but we’ll consider incorporating any great ideas.
Comments
Hi Travis, and congratulations again to the whole team on myFavorites. Is it too soon to get the ball rolling with a discussion of some feature suggestions and questions? Here are some from me:
Rock on.
Posted by: Dave Coustan | July 15, 2006 2:32 PM
Dave,
Great questions:
"Is it possible to bring in date information from del.icio.us in addition to the URL and tags?"
Travis: That's something we can look at capturing.
"Del.icio.us helps you pick tags by suggesting tags from your collection as you type -- can we do that?"
Travis: Currently, we are doing this for URLs that are already in the application so if you’re the second person to enter cnn.com then we'd suggest the tags that everyone that has saved cnn.com has used.
"Especially in the early days, while "most popular" seems to be filled with more "bookmarky" favorites like google.com and microsoft.com"
Travis: We've identified this as something that needs work.
Keep on Tagging!
Posted by: Travis M. | July 17, 2006 2:45 PM
Thanks. On the second point, I think suggesting tags from your *own* list helps you to keep your accordion file of favorites better organized. It reminds you what you've already got. In del.icio.us, I like how the application reminds me that I already have a tag called "blog", so maybe I don't want to tag this new thing under "blogs". It helps eliminate needless tags. What do you think?
Posted by: Dave Coustan | July 17, 2006 4:06 PM
Suggesting tags is something we'd like to do better over time.
Posted by: Travis M. | July 17, 2006 4:11 PM