Notes

Plum is similar to Kaboodle and Stylehive in that it is a social bookmarking site that allows users to add a lot of metadata about bookmarks (including images). Bookmarked items can tagged and be added to a public, private or shared “collection” (there are a number of defaul collections and more can be added).

One key way that Plum is different than other bookmarking site is that it allows users to bookmark items on their computer, not just on the web. A file that is open in certain desktop applications (things like photos, power point presentations, iTunes playlists, address book entries, email, etc) can be added to Plum by clicking a button on the Plummer, a small downloadable application for Windows or Mac. See the last screen shot below for a look at the Plummer.

Gee...projects and local resource tagging!  How are we to ever keep up? 

A long, annotated list of sites and products that allow some form of note taking.

"What's Digg? Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do."

I think we should think about allowing users to have the ability to add weight to posts here, in addition to assigning impact based on clicks. For instance, don't we want our important users to be able to tell us that a post represents an article that has a lot of weight.

Especially if we're thinking that people will have weights in addition to posts having weights.

another example of user-defined ranking. As we think about how to measure the impact of particular posts, I think we want to add some user-created aspect, and I think this is a better model than digg for rating items. I'm not sure how many icons Penntags will eventually be able to handle, but I like the simplicity of promoting and demoting sites here. reddit allows users to download bookmarklets so that they can register their like or dislike of a site while they're on it. I think, in the case of Penntags, we might like to have the option, in addition to copying an item, of voting it up or down for usefulness.