Social Bookmarking on MSDN

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re: Social Bookmarking on MSDN

phantom76 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:14:52 GMT

Great! I really like the direction that IE8 is taking.

But I feel there needs to be some consolidation has to happen to keep the number of bookmarking sites under control. Even MS seems to have 4 now! Would like to see only one and then differentiate the type of bookmarks with tags like Technet, Expression etc.,

Kallout is another selection-based search tool

R. Edward — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:36:02 GMT

Charlie,

Check out Kallout (www.kallout.com)

I’m also a Firefox lover who tried out IE 8 Beta looking for social-bookmarking functionality. I think the killer feature in IE-8 is “SELECTION-BASED SEARCH” where you can search with only a mouse. MS calls these Accelerators. The problem with Accelerators -- just like you point out -- is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s just unusable once you get more than two or three.

The version of SELECTION-BASED SEARCH search which I love is KallOut. http://www.kallout.com

KallOut already works over IE (the older versions) and Firefox (my favorite) as well as all of office. It’s really a killer application IMO for mouse-based search.

What IE8 Beta really needs is a way for the application to automatically choose which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout already does this with its “Best-Guess” feature.

Just a random reader opinion, anyway. Check out Kallout at http://www.kallout.com for yourself!

-Roy