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LUGNET should offer bookmarking tools
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:54:18 GMT
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I’ll admit this isn’t one of my better ideas, but I’ll throw it out there
anyway... Just read an article that
Ma.gnolia Goes Open
Source, But Bookmarking is Dying. Now, I’ve played around a little with
bookmarking. On one hand, it’s a good concept of keeping a list of bookmarked
web-pages on the web, so that I can find information I need from anywhere -- I
read an article, like it, bookmark it from work, then I can reference it when I
get home. Some companies go a step farther, and the more often a
web-page/article gets bookedmarked, it becomes a “top story” -- you can see what
the global zeitgeist is reading. I’d go a step further and do a thumbs-up or
thumbs-down, allowing people to vote positive or negative to an article...
One of the problems of bookmarking web-sites are that they’re too general --
everyone might be reading about John McCain’s new running mate, that’s great for
politics, but what about within the LEGO community? What are people talking
about? I know they’re talking, may not be on LUGNET talking about it, but I
know it’s out there somewhere -- new sub-themes are being talked about over on
Classic-Space, new construction developments are being discussed on
Classic-Castle, Eurobricks have some new set leaks for 2009, etc. It would be
nice to centralize some of that discussion. Blogs do a good job of that, but
LEGO blogs are just as fragmented as LEGO sites...
What would be nice, is do a hobby specific bookmarking web-site -- a service
that LUGNET could offer. Give out HTML/Javascript code that people can put on
their blog/web-site allowing people to bookmark/vote on an article. That
information could be collected like the “Top Stories” sidebar on LUGNET that
would allow people to jump to web-sites within the LEGO community of what’s
being discussed.
If you’re a registered LUGNET user, you can create a collection of hobby
specific bookmarks. You can add user specific tags to bookmarks; and organize
your bookmarks based upon those tags. And then for instance, some of the top
bookmarks tagged “pirate” could be put into a side-bar under “lugnet.pirate”
area. And with a little AI, the system can make web-site suggestions (to users
looking at their bookmarked collection), based upon those tags to help people
find articles/web-site they may not have known about.
Articles can be voted on for “top story of the day” -- HTML snipplet that people
can add to the end of their blog post. If a person likes it, they can vote
thumbs-up. Those votes are collected and processed a little like the “Top
Stories” -- registered user votes count more than an unregistered user vote.
And multiple votes sent from the same IP address; the first vote counts and
follow up votes are ignored. There could be a few sections of “What’s new
today?” and “What popular within the last X-hours/days/year?” (see:
Digg).
I haven’t looked into Ma.gnolia, nor it’s open source code... but I’m wondering
if there’s some ideas to be leveraged there.
--Mike.
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