browsr
December 25th, 2005
Despite the typical missing ‘e’ in the title (poor little ‘e’ - missing out on the new Web) and the one word/phrase slogans (People. Powered. Directory), the concept of browsr is something that I’ve been anticipating for quite a while.
From the about page:
“From the public or social side, users can tag their favorite sites to Browsr allowing others to comment on them. These tagged sites can focus on products and services or other well-known sites and weblogs.”
“From the private side, users create their own directories. Much like bookmarking, users add their own categories populated with their favorite sites. These private directories can be shared with select audiences. It is like having a mobile “favorites” or “bookmarks” directory. As an added feature, owners of private directories control whether other users can blog the sites they have tagged. (Note: private directories are not yet implemented in the current beta version but will be in the next version).”
One big issue, however. (Or maybe I say: One. Big. Issue.) No RSS? I can’t be kept up with new resources that are added to each directory? Oh, how I would love to see RSS implementation here.
Even though this is similar to del.icio.us, I like the ratings and commentary features (in fact, this is like a digg/del.icio.us tool - diggil.icio.us?). In any event, I’ve subscribed to the blog (one of these days, I’ll create a Bloglines account with all of the development blogs from all the resources I review - would that be useful?) and will be interested to to try out the private directories when they come out. (link via Steve RubelLinkBlog)