[DanBC]

I'm not sure how you could make social bookmarking different enough from existing products to be interesting and useful. One idea would be to have topics to which people suggest links; no one person owns any board or topic. That means that if I want any information about chairs I go to the chairs topic, and there they all are. i don't have to follow eight different people who have a chairs board and who may be posting similar links. Add in some kind of voting and you then have a directory of trusted (but, obviously, it's exploitable) links.

Calendars and diaries could be made useful. There are a huge number of very similar calendaring / diary softwares, and they all have similar limited functionality. I'd want something that made it really really easy to add stuff to; when someone emails me I want to be able to select and right-click some text and have that parsed and added to a calendar. I don't need to break my days into 15 minute segments. I want to be able to view the next week, or month, or whatever, per page.

[m_marker]

Regarding the Social bookmarking app, we want to take a recommendation system appoach, so we set the boards, and as new content gets posted, we fetch the content on the content recommendation engine we post it to a particular board. Users can then suscribe to boards and get content in realtime. A user can either vote up/down the content and we coulde use it to train and get the user preference.

[weeny]

have you ever seen this site: reddit.com

[teamplaya]

Yes, but reddit doesn't have a live recommendation system? The posts are ranked based on user votes

[weeny]

It's fundamentally a live recommendation system, and those votes make it work better than anything else (see Digg). I click on a subreddit and I get recommendations for related pages.