Seeking Testers For A Bookmarking Site (Idle Words)#

06.11.2009

These are lean times in social bookmarking. The staff at del.icio.us has been eviscerated by layoffs, and the project is now being run by a skeleton crew. Magnolia, the other useful bookmarking site, has gone offline for the summer while it implements a new "don't irretrievably lose everyone's data" feature.

I was never able to make my peace with the delicious redesign, and like many other people ended up building my own little bookmark management tool. I would like to try and turn it into a public site that's a little less about the social and more about the bookmarks. Here's a representative sampling of feature ideas:

searchable, cached content
better bulk operations through a gmail-like 'star' interface
a lightweight 'to read' status for stuff you want to get to later
better support for private bookmarks and tags
integration with twitter, facebook, IRC, the usual stuff
retro interface (no tag chevrons, fewer than three toolbars per page, etc)
don't irretrievably lose everyone's data

You can find a longer feature list here.

I am looking for volunteers to help me alpha test the service while it is still full of bugs. The ideal alpha tester is someone who does a lot of bookmarking, pines for the days before the del.icio.us redesign, and has endless reserves of patience. Please send me an email (maciej@ceglowski.com) if you are interested and I will send you an invite.