Case uses for the newish Evernote API.

 Could they be on the road to, uh, tapping it?

 There can only be a few winners.

TagSifter 3.1

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Firefox 3 lets you tag your bookmarks, but it doesn't give you a great way to browse your bookmarks by their tags. TagSifter tries to. Select a group of tags in the sidebar or menu, and TagSifter shows you all the related tags and bookmarks. Or search your bookmarks with set operators, like "tag1 - (tag2 + !tag3)". Comes with a tool to help tag your existing bookmarks as you move to Firefox 3.

 I'm waiting for a notetaking / bookmarking app to make great use of gears.

 Google Bookmarks Enhancement

Suit against Zotero is probably motivated because the free plugin threatens Endnote's properietary software model.

 Sticky notetaking service and todo list.

 Some folks are still using the OLD version of Evernote

An exciting, and comprehensive look at the online research tool you've probably never considered.

 JoeLaz on Tumblr's key failure: a lack of openness.

6. provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;

7. promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

11. furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

 Diigo's privacy policy objectionable.   

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Getting ready for big updates

Hi everyone!

We’re getting ready to push some major updates over the next few weeks, and we wanted to give you a heads-up on changes to our custom theme engine.

We’ve tried to make Tumblr themes as open and customizable as possible, and the things you’ve created have blown our minds.  But there are still things we’ve wanted to do that haven’t been easy enough.

So next Monday we’ll be scrapping our old code for a completely overhauled template engine.  We’re seriously excited about this, and we can’t wait to see what you’re able to do with it.

The most noticeable improvements:

• The new engine is scoped, so you’ll be able to nest and repeat blocks and variables.
• The engine uses a new token parser that will support special syntax for API hooks. This will let your theme call back for content, like:

  {​block:Posts type="photo" tagged="spotlight" count="5"}
      <img src="{​PhotoURL width="200"}" />
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We’ve been systematically testing the new engine to make sure it’s backwards compatible.  You can test it yourself by adding ?beta=1 to any tumblelog URL (e.g. http://www.davidslog.com/?beta=1).  If it’s working correctly, you shouldn’t see a difference.

Please let us know if you see anything funny.

 Tumblr update on the way.

 Tumblr is bad at SEO.

Today Y! revealed a beautiful new version of the site, redubbed Delicious.com. You’ve probably read way too much about this, but I want to highlight exactly one new feature: big, 1000-character notes fields.

This is huge for me as a blog dude, trying to collect links and tidbits for future posts. I can now write an entire short post just in the notes field, with room left over for attribution. See? Awesome.

 Something no one else has noted...

 A good question. One I'll need to answer.

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DROP.IO UNVEILS TWITTER INTEGRATION AND A SUITE OF NEW FEATURES DESIGNED TO STREAMLINE THE ONLINE FILE SHARING EXPERIENCE

New Feature Set Also Enables Embedded Videos, Enhanced Notes, Photo Rotation and More

July 31, 2008 – NEW YORK - Drop.io, Inc. (http://drop.io), the simple private sharing solution, today introduced a new suite of features to enhance Drop.io’s file sharing experience, making it faster and easier for users to privately share and store pictures, videos, audio, documents, and other digital content with family, friends, colleagues and work groups.

Headlining the package of new Drop.io features is the integration of Twitter’s social networking and micro-blogging platform to enable ‘real-time’ sharing of files uploaded to a drop through a user’s personalized Twitter stream.  By visiting a drop and entering a Twitter username and password, a user’s Twitter stream is instantaneously updated by a personalized “Tweet” when content is uploaded to the specified drop through one of Drop.io’s web, widgets, email, MMS, phone or fax inputs.  Each “Tweet” update includes a direct Drop.io link to the new asset, giving users immediate ‘one-click’ access to updated content.

“A natural fit for Drop.io, the Twitter community has always embraced Drop.io as they recognize that Drop.io’s on-the-fly functionality delivers a powerful enhancement to Twitter’s social networking platform.  Now, Twitter users can use Drop.io to post any sort of media into their Twitter streams from all the Drop.io inputs,” said Drop.io’s CEO Sam Lessin. “The instant ability to ‘Twitter’ out any ‘dropped’ file to an infinite number of Twitter accounts streamlines the online file sharing experience, while giving users extended control over the distribution of their content.”

In addition to the integration of Twitter functionality, Drop.io announced the release of a series of upgrades and enhancements to some of Drop.io’s most popular features.  The upgraded feature set includes:  Upgraded Notes – Drop.io’s new note editor allows for rich text composition, including color text, ordered lists, quotations and titles, and the ability to embed rich media content from social media sites, including: YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Viddler, Seesmic and Vimeo; SMS Alerts – Drop.io users can now receive updates via text message when their Drop has been updated with new content; User Selected Time Zone -- Drop administrators can now set the default time zone for all views and uploads; PicLens Optimized View – Users can now use the Drop.io PicLens viewer and directly enter a an optimized view of their drop; Photo Rotation; File Sorting in System View; Date and Time Stamping in RSS Alerts.

“Drop.io provides thousands of unique uses for thousands of unique people. Drop.io is not a structure, system or network – rather it is a platform that enables people to share in the most dynamic of ways,” added Lessin.

Wed 30 Jul 2008 - 12:39 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>DROP.IO UNVEILS TWITTER INTEGRATION AND A SUITE OF NEW FEATURES DESIGNED TO STREAMLINE THE ONLINE FILE SHARING EXPERIENCE</strong></span><br /><br />New Feature Set Also Enables Embedded Videos, Enhanced Notes, Photo Rotation and More<br /><br />July 31, 2008 – NEW YORK - Drop.io, Inc. (http://drop.io), the simple private sharing solution, today introduced a new suite of features to enhance Drop.io’s file sharing experience, making it faster and easier for users to privately share and store pictures, videos, audio, documents, and other digital content with family, friends, colleagues and work groups.<br /><br />Headlining the package of new Drop.io features is the <a href="http://tweet.io" title="Learn more about Drop.io + Twitter">integration of Twitter’s</a> social networking and micro-blogging platform to enable ‘real-time’ sharing of files uploaded to a drop through a user’s personalized Twitter stream.  By visiting a drop and entering a Twitter username and password, a user’s Twitter stream is instantaneously updated by a personalized “Tweet” when content is uploaded to the specified drop through one of Drop.io’s web, widgets, email, MMS, phone or fax inputs.  Each “Tweet” update includes a direct Drop.io link to the new asset, giving users immediate ‘one-click’ access to updated content.<br /><br />“A natural fit for Drop.io, the Twitter community has always embraced Drop.io as they recognize that Drop.io’s on-the-fly functionality delivers a powerful enhancement to Twitter’s social networking platform.  Now, Twitter users can use Drop.io to post any sort of media into their Twitter streams from all the Drop.io inputs,” said Drop.io’s CEO Sam Lessin. “The instant ability to ‘Twitter’ out any ‘dropped’ file to an infinite number of Twitter accounts streamlines the online file sharing experience, while giving users extended control over the distribution of their content.” <br /><br />In addition to the integration of Twitter functionality, Drop.io announced the release of a series of upgrades and enhancements to some of Drop.io’s most popular features.  The upgraded feature set includes:  Upgraded Notes – Drop.io’s new note editor allows for rich text composition, including color text, ordered lists, quotations and titles, and the ability to <a href="http://drop.io/embed" title="Learn more about Embeds">embed rich media</a> content from social media sites, including: YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Viddler, Seesmic and Vimeo; SMS Alerts – Drop.io users can now receive updates via text message when their Drop has been updated with new content; User Selected Time Zone -- Drop administrators can now set the default time zone for all views and uploads; PicLens Optimized View – Users can now use the Drop.io PicLens viewer and directly enter a an optimized view of their drop; Photo Rotation; File Sorting in System View; Date and Time Stamping in RSS Alerts.<br /><br />“Drop.io provides thousands of unique uses for thousands of unique people. Drop.io is not a structure, system or network – rather it is a platform that enables people to share in the most dynamic of ways,” added Lessin.<br />

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 an impressive update for drop.io

 Nice overview of some new-ish image bookmarking sites.

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OneNote vs. EverNote Reviews   reviews

It is hard to keep track of everything you need to remember our days. You can try fancy Moleskine or stick papers to refrigerator, but it never worked for me. For a while now I use OneNote from Microsoft - and I really like it. It has lots of cool features, easy to use and well integrated with Office suite and other MS applications. One thing that always bugged me though, is that it is very much last century application when it comes to the web. There is no easy way to share your notebooks across desktop boundaries. Mostly I got around it carrying my stuff on the USB key, which works but obviously not the optimal way to go. Then I came across EverNote and from what I've herd it was a lot more web oriented, so I decided to test run it.

It is typical smart client application - you have desktop, web and mobile clients that sync with each other. Microsoft has code sample for .NET 1.0 (!) just like this. I have already wrote about Office Live - so far looks like EverNote is everything Office Live is not (but should be). Here is how it works. You create account at EverNote web site and download desktop client. Install it on your desktop and log in. One time. Ever after, you just run EverNote desktop and, when you feel like it, click "sync" button to save all your changes to the web. If you have desktop client on another machine, you can sync it with web and it will bring all updates. And, of course, you can always log into web site and use web client. No sweat. Why is it so hard for Microsoft to implement their own ideas and technologies?

To summarize pros and cons for both apps as I see it:

OneNote:

	Full featured desktop client with rich drawing and writing functionality.
	Great integration with all MS products. You can save your email from Outlook to OneNote with a click of a button.
	Dumb when it comes to the web.

EverNote

	Centered around the web interface, takes advantage of many web 2.0 features.
	Desktop client is not as powerful and mostly can be used to gallery and copy/paste things.

 OneNote vs. EverNote comparison

So Cuil has its work cut out.  And Cuil is running into the classic 9x problem anyway. As Harvard professor John Gourville explains it, new products need to be nine times better than the product they replace. Two parts to that nine times rationale:

1. Risk aversion: the market will overvalue the incumbent product, with all its warts and limitations, because the benefits are certain and entrenched
2. Uncertainty: the described benefits of the new product may not be realized

 The difficult tasks for start-ups.

Bookmark Manager: Del.icio.us

With a social-bookmarking service like del.icio.us, co-workers can share bookmarks with each other using tags.

Whenever one of us finds something that’s relevant on the Web, we add it to del.icio.us with a unique in-house tag. The rest of us subscribe to that tag’s RSS feed, so we can peruse the recommended links at our leisure from our newsreaders. In essence, the bookmark tag acts as a low-overhead company blog. We also use the site’s for: tag—any bookmark that I tag with for:ginatrapani will show up in my Links For You area.

 Gina Trapini notes that the Lifehacker team uses Del.icio.

 For blogs

As I was writing up yesterday's article on The Times, I realized that there's a wide range of opinions from social media founders about undisclosed mass promotion on their communities. (Mahalo's Jason Calacanis doesn't mind, while Matt Haughey drops the banhammer on any Metafilter user who tries it.)

I contacted several founders affected by Sitelynx's activity to see their official (and personal) stance on this questionable practice.

 Good summary of how social bookmarking sites view "undisclosed promotion".

 Questionable list of bookmarking sites.

If you have installed OneNote with Firefox 3 already, skip this. For others OneNot fans, the good news is that the unofficial ‘Clip to OneNote’ add-on is now available for Firefox 3 but with a new name – ‘Send to OneNote’.

Send to OneNote (skip registration) enables to you copy complete web pages from Firefox into your OneNote notebook with a single right click. You also use this to clip only specific portions of a web page.

And if any web page includes complex formatting (like Google Maps or your Gmail inbox), you can always use the built-in screen clipping function of OneNote that gets activated by pressing Win+S.

 New send to onenote plug in. pretty rudimentary.

 Thread about delicious syncing with Firefox.

I love Google Notebook; let me count the reasons.

First, its Firefox add-on is the most full featured web clipping tool I’ve seen. Nearly every function included in the web app is duplicated in within a resizeable bookmarklet that pops up in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. It’s easy to edit text, add your own tags and comments, and even move items among the different notebooks. All without leaving your current page.

Yet with all this functionality, the experience of clipping a web page is virtually frictionless. Right click some images and text, select “Note This”, and you’re done. Or simply click to open the bookmark and select “Clip.” This will bookmark the page you’re on. In either case, saving is automatic. Oh, and since Notebook is integrated with Google Bookmarks, you can add any link to Google Notebook just by clicking the star in the Google Toolbar. Notemarking doesn’t get any faster or easier.

This brings me to the second reason I love Google Notebook. You don’t have to use tags because searching for stuff is so damned fast. This is a Google Product remember? It takes seconds to narrow down the results and find what you need.

 This is a longer explanation of my love for Google Notebook   

Saved search of all mentions of CloudNotes on FriendFeed.

I'm not a huge fan of ads on blogs, but this is compelling stuff.

 my comment on delicious's comparison friendfeed.

I really wish there was a way to organize link lists like this into an easy-to-add bundle of bookmarks.

 Long list of complaints about Diigo from a dedicated user.

Updated: Mozilla Weave

July 2nd, 2008 (9:00am) Imran Ali 2 Comments

Microsoft has chosen the name "Equipt" for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of $69.99.

Equipt, which was formerly known by its code name, Albany, includes Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspaces, Windows Live Mail, Live Messenger and Live Photo. Microsoft plans to begin selling it in the U.S. on July 15 through Circuit City, with other outlets to follow. It will be offered in other countries at about the same time, though pricing elsewhere was not announced.

The name comes from the idea that the package will help customers "equip their PC with a core set of services," said Bryson Gordon, a group product manager for Microsoft Office. "It resonated well with customers in testing."

Indeed, the name is more succinct than Microsoft has used for some other Office products, including unwieldy names like Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager.

 Presumably, this would include OneNote

StumbleUpon 3.23 Integrates "Likes" With Firefox 3 Bookmarks

I really wish Del.icio.us would follow their lead.

Web utility del.icio.us to Firefox merges your bookmarks from social bookmarking web site del.icio.us—tags and all—with your existing Firefox 3 bookmarks. Why might you want to do this? Because the new and improved bookmarking functionality in Firefox 3 supports tagging, but since previous versions of Firefox did not, you've already got tons of bookmarks with no tags.

After providing this web site with your backed up del.icio.us and Firefox bookmarks, it merges the two so that sites you've already bookmarked will also be tagged, and you can start searching for bookmarks by tag from the comfort of Firefox 3's AwesomeBar. Once you've made this change, if you're syncing your bookmarks with an extension like previously mentioned Foxmarks, you may not even need del.icio.us anymore (unless you're into the social aspect).

I've had this exact thought. Hmmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

Google Notebook and OneNote

 An interesting, if not very substantive comparison of OneNote and Google Notebook.

Just registered for the Beta. I'm definitely curious, because it sure sounds like an ambitious Notemarking service.

With most internet-based social applications, they become more interesting and useful as the number of people you interact with also goes up.

Go ahead, call me a little slow.  It’s probably a blindingly obvious thought.  But after I had it, I started applying it as a hypothesis to different social networks.  I realized that most social media applications such as Twitter could easily be categorized into the the more friends, more fun category, but not all of them.  Pandora would be an example of a social app that does not require more friends to be more enjoyable.

So, for most social media applications, simple rules can be followed if you want to make the service more interesting, rewarding or worthwhile:

I'd say a notemarking service can be one of these enjoyable-all-by-yourself services, too.

The Evernote Widget: Notebooks To Go

June 5th, 2008

 Nice review of Evernote with screenshots

 Notetaking tips   

Old Evernote Firefox extension. Not sure if Evernote Firefox clipper is compatible with the Web version.

If you aren’t careful, bookmarking and searching can quickly get out of control on you. Here are 30+ tools to help you keep them under control in Firefox.

See also: 23 Best Social Networking Toolbars and Plugins for Firefox

 Mashable list of plugins and addons

The reason that social bookmarking has exploded in the last year is obvious -- storing your bookmarks online instead of in the browser just makes sense.

Social bookmarking services let you keep links to your favorite web destinations in one location that's accessible from any computer on the net. Add the ability to share your favorite web destinations and search through other users' bookmarks to discover new sites, and you've got a highly addictive and truly remarkable phenomenon.

There's a score of services out there, and no single service has it all. Some social bookmarking sites focus more closely on sharing and discovery, while others offer more options for sorting and organizing.

Last week, we set out to review some of the more popular social bookmarking websites on the Monkey Bites blog. We discovered that almost all these sites have the same basic features: browser bookmarklets for one-click link saving, RSS feeds, tags and sharing capability.

 Wired review of Bookmarking sites circa 2006

 WWD's review of EverNote.

New Add On: YooNo

Introduction

YooNo is a community driven, smart bookmarking tool. Basically, YooNo becomes a companion tool to your bookmark folder. The key feature of YooNo is that it constantly suggests Web sites of interest, based on the current Web page you are viewing.

Digital life bookmarking tool Evernote emerges from beta for its public launch today, with a few new features I think I’ll enjoy. The first new feature I’m excited about is the new clipper tool, which works more like Twine’s bookmarking tool in that it slides down from your browser toolbar instead of redirecting to an entirely new page. The other upgrade I’m happy to see is improved organization features, which Mac users will easily appreciate as they work much like a Mac desktop.

The other major change to Evernote is the introduction of premium subscriptions. There were a few times when I described Evernote to a friend and was surprised when they asked how much the service cost, especially considering the number of free bookmarking tools that are already in existence. Given Evernote’s approach to digitizing one’s life, complete with desktop, web and mobile apps and synchronization, I can understand how one would wonder at the monthly price for such a tool.

I had downloaded the desktop app once before and been disappointed. I also didn't think the web version compared favorably with Google Notebook. But with the public beta, I'll be reviewing the service again.

 Not sure that Google Reader needs a desktop client. But

When Yahoo acquired del.icio.us in 2005, del.icio.us was red-hot. It was the bookmarking service on the Web - popular, valuable, useful and cool. Then, Yahoo came along - a move that Schachter believed would bring “new features and more servers in the future”.

Sadly, del.icio.us went from the belle of the ball to the girl who stands in the corner waiting for something to ask her to dance.

Rather than encourage/allow del.icio.us to innovate, Yahoo ignored it or discouraged it from moving forward. The silver lining is by doing nothing with del.icio.us, Yahoo didn’t destroy it.

In the 2+ years that Yahoo has owned del.icio.us, the amount of innovation and new features introduced as been, at best, minimal. Sure, there have been some rumblings about a super-duper beta being developed but after months of waiting, nothing has happened.

Per my recent post, I don't believe Del.icio.us has wilted on the vine. Their continued development of the Del.icio.us Bookmarks add-on shows that they've been playing to strength.

 Editing post properties with CSS.

Review of Google, Diigo, and Awesome Highlighter

 Techcrunch covers five annotation services

Several of the highlighting/annotation sites that I tested were very complicated to use and very slow - Diigo, Stickis, and Google Notebook - to be specific. After trying out Stickis, Awesome Highlighter was a breath of fresh air. Highlighting, historically, is one of the simplest things in the world. You have paper with text, and a yellow marker, and you go over important text to make it stick out. Awesome Highlighter has seemingly recreated the simplicity of its inspiration. Stanford’s Academic Technology Specialist Program, recently reviewed Awesome Highlighter, Diigo, and Google Notebook here.

With Awesome Highlighter, a users highlights are available as an RSS feed, which could be mashed-up to use in group collaboration apps or in school environments (follow the smart kids’ highlights instead of making your own).  They are currently working on adding some more social features to make better use of the possibilities.