Tue 03 May. 2005

dashLicious

a dashboard widget:

a very feature focused widget. it implements a post to your del.icio.us account on the fabulous web service created by Joshua Schachter.

dashLicious is optimised for Safari and NetNewsWire users. when you enter into the dashboard dashLicious will automatically populate the url and description fields from either Safari or NetNewsWire (and will allow you to toggle between the two inputs).

(via del.icio.us/popular)

Update 04 May 05:

delimport: Index your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight.

Clay Shirky on Tags

You’re It!

Tags center around the user, and any technology that recognizes that each user is the center of their world has good adoption characteristics.
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demand is different than supply, retrieving is different than searching, and keeping is different than finding. Tags are demand-side tools allow us to do things that supply-side tools don’t.

Update 04 May 05:

The Community Engine has a series of post on xFolk

(via 0xDECAFBAD Links)

Blogs & Marketing

The Wall Street Journal: Corporate Marketers Try Out Blogs

Found amid the unvarnished opinion and helter-skelter discussion on Web logs, or blogs, is something crucial to any marketer: raw consumer feedback. With that in mind, companies are embarking on the delicate task of turning “corporate blog” from an oxymoron into the latest channel for direct marketing to customers and prospects.

VespaBlogs.com:

… the future home of two new weblogs that will be written by Vespa owners and will launch in the second quarter of this year. Piaggio USA is the Italian manufacturer of Vespa and other top scooter brands, and is Europe’s leader in the two-wheel sector. It re-entered the U.S. market in 2000 and now has dealerships in 85 markets, 15 of which opened in the last year.

(via Micro Persuasion)