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August 10, 2006

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

Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Netscape fan and web developer Jeromy Huber has made a bookmarklet that simultaneously opens four quarter screens in one window to save an URL in Netscape, Digg, Reddit and Del.icio.us. Called Diggscaperedicious, it doesn’t quite have the awesome one click power of OnlyWire.com, but OnlyWire doesn’t save to Digg or Netscape.

Some people are wary of tools like this, calling them spam for social bookmarking systems. I think though that so long as items are tagged appropriately so only users looking for items applicable to those tags - it’s a legitimate form of cross-platform promotion. Thoughts?

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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 :P 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?

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