[dbachrach]

Interesting idea. Can people can use delicious to sort of do the same thing? I think at least for now, you should have it post-through to a person's twitter/delicious/facebook. I have followers on twitter that might be interested in my links, but if I post them on howl, no one will see it (because you just started and there aren't too many users). It's also better than twitter because it pulls images and text like Facebook does. Pownce also did this type of thing, so learn from their experience. Good luck!

[coryl]

Delicious is less social and has a different focus, so no, they don't do the same thing.

We thought about building the service directly around Twitter and Facebook like you suggested. We could integrate them so that whenever you post on Howl, it posts to your Twitter/FB through the API. You're right about how its better than twitter, after all, who wants a stinkin shortened bitly link and a description? Give em big images and embedded video! Thanks.

[dbachrach]

Couple ideas to add:

1) Being able to share links to a group of people. Often i'll share links with coworkers, and it'd be nice to have a record.

2) Custom lists. So I can make shareable lists of related links.

Yeah, definitely look more into unifying and integrating facebook and twitter.

[andyhin]

Great ideas - added them to our ideas document. Building out these sort of specific features around link sharing is how we are going to differentiate ourselves from FB, Digg, etc.