1/ There are some interesting lessons in the failure of bookmarking as a category
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2/ Except for pinboard.in which is kinda a retro niche, nothing has survived. I was behind one deadpooled product, trailmeme
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3/ Digg, foxmarks, browser bookmarks, delicious, stumbleupon...there were a dozen others just a few years ago, why did none of it work?
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5/ But that only gets at information collection that we do for fun, social connection, casual interests, not "work" collection
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6/ For work needs, bookmarking ended up being a WORN technology: write-once-read-never. To get out of the WORN tarpit, you need 3 things
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amount of willpower 1 needs to use & maintain such a system over long period of time is beyond most of us + incentives not strong nough
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Pinterest has nailed the visual pref (for 50-60% of population), which is hard to fathom for text-centric types


