(2010-12-11) Orchard Less Delicious Metadata

Les Orchard notes that he's been using Del.icio.us less as he uses Sharing facilities in other services (Google Reader, Twitter, etc.). And that this results in less future-asset accretion because there's no MetaTag association. Consequently, they facilitate sharing much more than search or recall, in that the richness of metadata extracted from me is reduced. Delicious kind of tricked me into doing all three at once, but newer services are more focused on me as a social entity... It's harder to find things again, thanks to missing metadata and the ephemeral nature of sharing on the real-time web. I think there's a place for Delicious, if only for those of us who like to keep track of what we've found on the web and share the results. I suspect that may be a limited, though highly motivated audience.

Dec20 update: he thinks you should either Self Host your bookmarking, or use a paid service (End Of Free). He's using PinBoard for now. He wants to see a distributed system (comparable to Open Twitter thinking) that would allow aggregation across many Social Bookmarking sites. Assume that lots of people have tagged bookmark collections in lots of places. What if those sites all supported PubSubHubBub and/or RssCloud across feeds by dimensions of tag, user, and URL?... Then, imagine a layer of Search Engine-s, each specializing in collecting a topically-interesting mix of real-time feeds from an array of social bookmarking sites. A future Google could subscribe to hubs pings from all the above and build something interesting and valuable without hosting the bookmarks of pesky, demanding users... If it turns out that social bookmarking settles down into a small but highly involved niche of curators, so much the better that they keep their own lights on.

Nov'2011 update: he's still using PinBoard, and tagging most of his entries. And it has become more important - 2011-10-20-[[Google ReaderSocialFeaturesMovingToGooglePlus]].