Upgraded to Simpy
Saturday, January 21st 2006 | Ismael Ghalimi
I liked del.icio.us a lot, but two features convinced me to upgrade to Simpy: first, Simpy allows you to create private bookmarks; second, it provides a REST API that I intend to use to synchronize my bookmarks with the various links I store into Salesforce.com. Obviously, I must not be the first one to upgrade from del.ico.us, and the Simpy team developed a del.icio.us import tool that made the upgrade a snap: just enter your user name and password, wait for an hour or two, and you’re ready to uninstall the del.icio.us plugin and install the Simpy one, keeping in mind that browser extensions should be used with care. Much like with del.icio.us, I am sharing my bookmarks, and among them my office 2.0 setup, the candidate services that might eventually make their way into the later, and the technologies that I am currently investigating in order to connect all these pieces together. Among them, I have just discovered Feed Digest and must say that I am quite impressed. More on this later.
Entry filed under: Office 2.0, Social Networking
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[…] Collaboration features are goodPart of the value of storing your data online is that it enables collaboration with other people, as described in this article. For that reason, services that support document sharing and publishing will always get my preference over services that keep data to myself only, as long as they do it in a secure manner. In that respect, support for both public and private bookmarks was one of the primary reasons why I upgraded from del.icio.us to Simpy. […]
[…] Bookmark Publishing: del.icio.usBeside posts, a blog usually displays lists of things such as bookmarks or other blogs of interest—also known as blogroll. For managing such lists, you can use your social bookmarking tool of choice, be it del.icio.us, Diigo or Simpy. I started with del.icio.us, upgraded to Simpy, then recently moved back to del.icio.us, which seems to have the most streamlined user interface and allows me to publish bookmarks through JavaScript Linkrolls, without having to use FeedDigest in between. If you decide to use del.icio.us, just keep in mind that it works in batch mode, and that your Linkrolls might take up to 24 hours to be operative. […]
Omigawd, Simpy is so cr*ppy compared with del.icio.us. It has ads, it’s one of those sites that don’t let you click the back button to get to your previous site, and the design is horrible & amateurish.
Mike,
I migrated back to del.icio.us several months ago.
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