razorshine
by riaz kanani
May 1, 2008 at 4:59 pm · Filed under: browser delicious magnolia online bookmarks sphere
So I am finally using Firefox 3 and it looks like its third time lucky. Having installed it twice before, the lack of plugin support made me uninstall it very quickly, I just lost too much productivity. It has been an easy way to identify the addons that I cannot do without.
The one addon that I could not do without was delicious from Yahoo who finally released a version for Firefox 3 a few days ago. The delicious addon allows me 2 crucial things:
First I can see all my bookmarks in the browser, replacing (or co-existing with) firefox’s own bookmarks. This means that I can search delicious and go to my bookmarks without going to the delicious website and then searching. Removing that single step turned me from a rare delicious user into one that uses it almost daily.
The second is that it allows me to add sites I want to bookmark at the click of a button, in a similar way to you would normally inside a browser. Again, this saves me having to go to the delicious website and adding it there. During this step I can also share the link with my friends or choose to make the link private and not visible in my delicious profile.
There has been a huge delay to delicious rolling out the Firefox 3 addon. It has taken them months. But, and this amazed me, none of the other online bookmarking services seemed to have the same level of integration with Firefox. They all offered me the second ability to add bookmarks to their service but none allowed me the first - letting me view them inside within Firefox. Over the course of recent months, I could have switched to Google Bookmarks or Magnolia without any regrets if they had let me have this functionality, especially Magnolia. I really like their site (though of course with the integration I’d be unlikely to ever go there!).
On a side note this is the sort of connected services that I think is going to really take off in the future. Not sure yet how you make money from it though. Maybe by paying a fee to use the addon in the browser? Or the more traditional web route of suggesting other paid for links similar to the one you are bookmarking at the time of saving it. Something akin to Sphere which I am using at the end of posts to suggest similar links.
January 28, 2008 at 8:56 am · Filed under: bookmarks delicious magnolia
Rather randomly this morning I decided I wanted to go check out how Ma.gnolia was coming along (I loved the interface but there wasn’t enough to move me from delicious previously).
Problem - I couldn’t remember the name.. so I tried the search engines under “bookmark”, “online bookmarks” and “bookmark manager”. Found nothing on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft - so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity for Mahalo (the human search engine).. but nothing. They all suggested Delicious. So I tried delicious and hilariously.. I found Ma.gnolia again 
November 28, 2007 at 8:39 am · Filed under: blogging cnet delicious firefox flock neowin
One of the differences using Flock is that I do not have a delicious shared toolbar at the top of my browser like I did in Firefox. That means that its an extra step to access the same favourites I use both at home and work. I haven’t tried installing the delicious plugin yet but maybe that will rectify it.
In any case, one of the results of this change is my old favourites which I no longer saw is now visible again and it was interesting to revisit some of them. Some like Neowin and The Register hadn’t changed and I’ll probably continue to visit them infrequently but it was interesting to see how much CNET had changed - there seems to be a much greater integration with and emphasis on individual commentary (ie blogging). I wonder if that makes it better?
November 22, 2007 at 1:53 pm · Filed under: browser delicious facebook firefox flickr flock twitter
The path to a new browser:
- Installed Firefox 3
- Found most plugins I needed didn’t work (yes its in beta I should be patient)
- Read a post about memory issues in Firefox generally (which I felt constantly) and how Flock was not (no longer?) just an “addon” to Firefox but a complete replacement. Supposedly it integrated new social platforms (Facebook, Flickr, delicious, twitter) and solved the memory issues with Firefox. The latter especially was a sweeping statement but he went on to say that he was wrong about Flock.
- So seeing as I had the same opinion of Flock when I tried it at launch I figured maybe I should give it a try
- Downloaded.
- Installed.
- Love it - didn’t need several plugins and I only had to add IETab, mouse gestures and FireFTP. I await to see the memory improvements but I love the media streams.
December 23, 2005 at 9:48 pm · Filed under: delicious im meebo
I can thank del.icio.us for finding this..
its called meebo and its a web client for AIM/ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk (or Jabber) - ie all the clients I would ever want to use ok except maybe skype, though I have always hated their instant messaging.. and well what with their api requiring skype to be running in the background its possibly not feasibe right now. It seems to have just started, their site calls it an alpha so be warned. It is quick and easy to access wherever you are, and if they can get more than just the basics working this project could have a great future, why haven’t the major messenger players done this themselves??
[update: minor text changes and improved coherence - something that I guess was impossible yesterday..]
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