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1. Michael Arrington
   

   July 18th, 2005 at 10:53 am

   I emailed Otis Gospodnetić and asked for his thoughts on this profile, and he was kind enough to send the following comments back to me. The email points out a few things I missed and so is worth reprinting:

   Hello Mike and thanks for the profile!

   There are a few things about the current release of Simpy that are worth
   pointing out:

   1. Notes. None of the other services you mentioned have them
   (delicious, Furl, Yahoo Web 2.0 (I think they don’t have this)). Notes
   are private, taggable, full-text searchable, and of unlimited length.
   There are bookmarklets for saving and searching Notes, too, and the
   saving one lets you select a piece of text on a page, and save it in
   your Notes (it prepopulates the “Add Note” form for you). I wasn’t even
   sure if adding Notes to Simpy was a good idea, but judging from feedback
   so far, people like it.

   2. Topics and Topic Filters. These are perhaps poorly named, but you
   can compare it to a delicious Inbox. However, unlike with delicious,
   where you can have only 1 Inbox, Simpy lets you have multiple Topics.
   This means you can find people who bookmark good links about swimming,
   and put them in one Topic, a group of people who bookmark good stuff
   about Ajax, and stick them in another Topic, and so on.
   But what if people in your Swimming Topic also bookmark sites about
   skiing and hiking, and you don’t care for those subjects? That’s where
   Topic Filters come in. Topic Filters are essentially named queries that
   you can apply to a Topic, this eliminating links that from your view
   that you don’t care to see (or, thinking poisitively, filter only the
   interesting links).

   3. Powerful query syntax is there, but take a look at the “+ - ~” links
   next to Related Tags (after a search or click on a tag). These
   operators let you combine any number of tags and essentially form a
   Boolean query. This becomes very powerful when you have a large
   bookmark collection with a few thousand links.

   4. When you look at a page for a Simpy user, you may also see “Related
   Users” section (right side), if there are some similar users in Simpy.
   For example: http://www.simpy.com/simpy/User.do?username=otis
   (it looks like I need to exclude users with only private links - the
   first related user on my list has only private links). The
   “relatedness” is sometimes hard to see, but with time and growth of the
   user base and the number of bookmarks and tags, the precision will increase.

   5. Link History is kind of nice (I’m a sucker for graphs). For example:
   http://www.simpy.com/simpy/Lin.....fox.com%2F

   6. There is a REST API documented at
   http://www.simpy.com/simpy/service/api/rest/

   7. Easy way to try the service with demo/demo account:
   http://www.simpy.com/simpy/Aut.....emberme=-1

   8. Sorting links by usage frequency is nice - let’s you quickly get to
   links that you visit regularly (those are most likely to be the most
   used ones)

   I think 1, 2, 3, and 6, maybe also 5 are worth pointing out. The other
   ones are nice, but details really.

   Thanks,
   Otis

2. marnie webb
   

   July 20th, 2005 at 3:10 pm

   This is terrific. Thanks!

3. jacky
   

   July 21st, 2006 at 9:42 pm

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