Diggscaperedilicous: Save to Digg, Netscape, Reddit and Del.icio.us with one bookmarklet

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1. Robert Dewey
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:03 am

   Interesting…

   I wonder if there will ever come a time when the actual browsing area is reduced to less than 1/4 the screen size… There are SO many toolbars floating around, but they lose their benefit after cluttering up my browser. I think I’m going to install each one of them and see how small I can get the browser window, then take a screen shot, that’d be pretty interesting

   Anyway, I’m not knocking the company - this is just something I’ve personally noticed.

2. mojaam
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:15 am

   The only problem with these (specifically digg) is that it entices the creation of duplicates.

3. Marshall Kirkpatrick
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:19 am

   Too true, too true. It’s a shame that Digg isn’t able to search for common URLs over the last, say 24 hours. Other sites are able to recommend tags based on how other users have tagged a URL and while scaling to digg proportions would be difficult, that sure would be nice.

4. Robert Dewey
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:23 am

   It depends on the content of the duplication. Clearly in the blogosphere, duplication isn’t a problem when it’s multiple “journalists” covering the same story. This would allow you to get the complete “spin” from various sources.

   On the otherhand, when they are aggregating base URL’s from sources like CNN, duplicates wouldn’t be as useful.

5. Allen
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:28 am

   I think the issue with these aggregation services is while I think they are useful, it is very easy for someone to spam the heck out of the services at the same time.

6. Christian
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:32 am

   If you like Bookmarklets then you should check out Blummy, the ultimate bookmarklet.

7. Marshall Kirkpatrick
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:37 am

   Christian - I love blummy!

8. foobar
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:46 am

   It’s such a sad state of affairs when the need for a UI like this exists. If Web 2.0 keeps going, we’re going to need a UI that has 30 interfaces so we can store our bookmarks in 30 different data silos. When are we going to realize that having many data silos isn’t going to be sustainable going forward?

9. foobar
   

   August 10th, 2006 at 10:46 am

   It’s such a sad state of affairs when the need for a UI like this exists. If Web 2.0 keeps going, we’re going to need a UI that has 30 different frames so we can store our bookmarks in 30 different data silos. When are we going to realize that having many data silos isn’t going to be sustainable going forward?

10. John Beales
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 10:54 am

    I think that while it does make spamming these directories easier, cross-promotion is legitimate and a tool to make it easier and less time consuming is a great idea.

    On the duplicate URL topic I think that these sites should definitely have a checker. I like the interface on Newsvine where the first person to ’seed’ a URL is the only person that gets credit.

11. Alec
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    You mispelled the name in the title Missing that last “i”

    I want a Diggscaperedliciousvine!

12. Jennifer Fader
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 11:27 am

    Great idea. But as a big fan of Populs as a zeitgeist meter, this poses a threat to the nuanced, collective favorites and signature content focus of each individual site.

13. J Thomas Lowell
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 11:43 am

    This workaround is a faint signal. What will/should happen is the creation of a specification for tagging and ranking content. Many times I’ve come across information that makes sense to live both on Digg and del.icio.us both, because each has a different value prop and customer experience. To avoid the fragmentation some comments above portend, we need a standard data format which is extensible/DOM–that allows for use in any interface or application–rather than being tied to digg or del.icio.us alone.

    I envision a browser feature that makes smarter bookmarks. Instead of just bookmarking, I bookmark/tag/rate a page/URL/video/etc. I then enable that data sharing with whatever service I see fit to publish it through.

14. Pro SEO
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 11:55 am

    What if a user doesn’t have accounts at all of these sites?
    It’s unlikely that if they use one social bookmarking site that they will use another.

15. Jimmy Daniels
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 12:26 pm

    One would think Google would see all of these bookmarks as duplicate content and start removing them from their index.

16. Anand
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 12:35 pm

    Pro SEO,

    I agree that one social bookmarking site can’t do justice with all the value propositions offered by many different sites.

    It will be great if various sites like yahoo, google, myspace, digg, youtube, netscape etc. make their authentication APIs publicly available and then when a user registered on yahoo goes to a site “socialbookmark.com” and gets authenticated by his yahoo identity. Socialbookmark.com will be fine as they have authenticated him and can potentially have a mapping identity for this yahoo user at their site and allow the user to manage his preferences etc.

    This may bring up business issues and make it difficult in reality, but, it may make it easy for users who don’t want create a new account at many sites. This is in theory similar to MSN and yahoo messenger collaboration. Smaller to medium sized companies can work with each other develop partnership to something similar if it makes business sense.

    -Anand

17. wally
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    tools like this are a proof of creativity, but indeed, why do they exist?
    because some people read this and other people read that.
    is it then usefull to post it to the four?

    I rather have my content clean, like get the things you choose for.

    Choose digg, get digg. Choose netscape get netscape…….

18. Garth
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    For these four I think it is the same people.

    Only netscape really has a mainstream audience.

    One will win, I am not sure what “all the value propositions” of multiple various social bookmarking sites is.

    Google or yahoo will have the most popular bookmarking tool in a year, and people will say del.red.digg what?

19. Stephen
    

    August 10th, 2006 at 11:28 pm

    That looks pretty cool, but the inclusion of Netscape just kills it for me…

20. Alexander Kirk
    

    August 11th, 2006 at 12:53 am

    Christian, Marshall Kirkpatrick: Of course, Diggscaperedicious is now also available on Blummy: http://blummy.com/config.php?query=DiggScape

21. Jason
    

    August 12th, 2006 at 9:48 am

    I love it!

    I have the 30″ dell monitor and it looks really great and saves a ton of time. I’d love to have it be 3×3 so I could submit to Magnolia, Rojo, and newsvine.

22. come on
    

    August 13th, 2006 at 2:07 am

    come on. frames? not mention worthy. a slow day in techcrunch huh?