Comments on: Yoono Buzz It: Notebooks Reinvented

By: Library clips :: Link sharing with ShareThis and others :: May :: 2007

Library clips :: Link sharing with ShareThis and others :: May :: 2007 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:37:08 +0000

[...] yoono [ADDED 31/05/07: Yoono is a download app that seems to have the same features as ShareThis, ie. send to contacts that aren’t registered with Yoono, different types of delivery, and even posting to your blog…see comment] [...]

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:39:55 +0000

I installed Yoono tool some days ago and I think it’s terrific. What a relief to know I can clip and share anything I want directly from the web page in just one clic. I just can do without it now. Yoono is efficient but also fun & addictive. No way I continue using another clipping tool !

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:30:52 +0000

Phani, you *have* to be kidding… or you did not try it…

By: phani

phani — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:37:43 +0000

Also check out Plum…. which is much better than Yoono

Google Notebook and NoteFish are much better options

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:53:05 +0000

I just tried this tool and I must say it’s very impressive. I can fancy more than one occasion I’ll use it.

By: Gal

Gal — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:19:39 +0000

Looks great, but as you wrote about the plugin “It’s an initial negative that can be fixed”.
I don’t see any way this can work without a plugin, do you?

Gal

By: Coral

Coral — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:07:30 +0000

Toolbars are evil. Why does the yahoo bar automatically re-install every time it has been disabled? Pagination seems a good idea if it does its job properly, as is screen-real-estate. I love scrolling marquee type boxes where space is at a premium.

Do you know of any program that tests if one’s Website has been blocked and what reason would a Website be blocked?

Regards,
Coral

http://www.cora...ry.blogspot.com

By: techmine

techmine — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:52:56 +0000

Simultaneous bookmarking (atleast to del.icio.us) would be a good feature to add. I still like the annotation/research done by Diigo toolbar with lots of other features. Yoono is a different approach though. It is not a pure bookmarking tool but more of a note taking tool – competition to Google Notebook. Yes it looks better than Google. Please add the feature of “folders” as you mentioned, Xavier.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:33:50 +0000

Duncan, Firefox lets user choose all that. Using the Customize feature, select what you like in Yoono’s toolbar, put it where you like it, and close the toolbar with one click…
We have 3 major features in Yoono toolbar :
- buzz it
- the suggestions ticker
- Surprise me.

I’d bet people would not be happy to have 3 new items installing themselves in the navigation bar (where many extensions already land).

Nevertheless, they CAN do it if they like…
They can even drag and drop this toolbar to the top or under the status bar !
All that is pretty flexible, right ?

By: Eugene Mizin

Eugene Mizin — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:32:28 +0000

Mashaziva said:
>> “Too many of these products seem so promising but they dont think
>> through practical user functionality. I want a tool that allows me to
>> save, share, retrieve and most of all use it in a logical, practical method.”

Mashaziva, please give Notefish a try. I think you’ll like it. If not, I owe you a beer (and a better tool to save, organize, and share your web clips).

Best regards,
Eugene Mizin
info@notefish.com

By: phugit

phugit — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:15:26 +0000

I am working on an idea very similar but on a slightly higher level/end result… I’m glad I read these postings, cause I’m reading up on creating Firefox extensions in addition to the toolbar.
Thanks!

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:46:48 +0000

Amit
agree on the hotlinking, which is why I noted it in the post.

Jason,
how many toolbars is too many! every single app that insists on loading a new toolbar is a vote against it in my book. I don’t need any more toolbars. Easy substitute, you can integrate functionality by including buttons in the navigation toolbar or along the bottom in Firefox…or simply give users the choice as to where they put them. Examples: BlueOrganizer + Twitbin I’ve reviewed recently at TechCrunch, I also use Search Status for Firefox which has an extensive range of placement options, totally up to me. I’m not against extra buttons, but an entire toolbar is overkill when many people are already running existing addons.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:41:56 +0000

To Jason Alba,

I just installed this and using it from the contextual menue in Firefox without the toolbar – works perfect.

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:41:01 +0000

Ok so Duncan doesn’t like toolbar plugins. Can I ask, what is the alternative to a toolbar plugin? In other words, how could you achieve this without a toolbar?

Jason Alba
CEO – JibberJobber.com
Because you will change jobs in the next 3-5 years…

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:24:57 +0000

Pallet Jack, do you know that toolbars are customizable in Firefox ?
You absolutely can chose to put for instance the BuzzIt element, say, next to your favorite Firefox button, and close the remaining of the Yoono’s toolbar, that will take just a few clics…
Allow us to give users more choice…

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:58:13 +0000

I say – YASN – toolbar – boo!

– Make it a button that will fit into a empty slot on my firefox already; without using my screen realestate

By: JordiFedez

JordiFedez — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:53:15 +0000

Sounds interesting, specially for the community… I will test it first of giving my oppinion

By: mashaziva

mashaziva — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:34:34 +0000

Xavier. i wasnt referring to adding notes to the content but for what i could see, if i want to highlight separate snippets on a page, a title box would open each time i highlighted. i welcome your clarification

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:38:13 +0000

To Mashaziva :

Just to make sure you did not miss something :
Why would you want to create a new Buzz for each bit of a page you want to save ?
Just add a note to the existing Buzz that deals with that page (or subject, or whatever you chose to group your notes in a Buzz).

However, we are working on a layout in a future release to group buzz in “folders”

best regards,
Xavier

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:11:03 +0000

Wow this is pretty cool. And very easy to use. Looks good.

By: mashaziva

mashaziva — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:30:12 +0000

The only way to save ‘BuzzIts’ is either with tabs on the toolbar or on a drop down menu. I cant imagine how much fun it will be to find my stuff when I’ve saved 30,100 or more! And the title box shows up every time I want to save something even if it is on the same page. Too many of these products seem so promising but they dont think through practical user functionality. I want a tool that allows me to save, share, retrieve and most of all use it in a logical, practical method.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:23:45 +0000

Duncan, While such tools make microblogging really simple, they hotlink images from the source which not everyone may approve of.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:57:46 +0000

This concept reminds me of Plummer. But Plummer may find it hard to have a broad appeal like Buzz It because it is still based on invitation-only.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:36:23 +0000

There’s one big problem with such toolbars and extensions, they only work in FireFox or IE

If only there was some sort of cross platform browser plugin or extension framework.

I really wish stumble upon worked in Safari and OmniWeb!

http://bla.st/software/

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:13:58 +0000

why is everyone saying wow ? its terribly slow. I think if any of web annotations should click it should be very fast.