Thursday, 28 July 2005

New release, new search and new tag features

The Release Log has the details, but in short, I am happy to announce that the new Simpy release is out!

The most notable features concern searching and tagging.

The full-text search is back! Not only can you full-text search your own bookmarks, but you can also full-text search any other Simpy user's public bookmarks. In my opinion, this is big and useful. Browsing by tags is nice, but is also limiting. Full-text search can do more, and since Simpy supports fielded search, you can always emulate tag search with queries like tags:foo (more info is in the FAQ).

You can see your Tag Cloud now (just use the "tags" link in the nav bar at the top of Simpy pages). A Tag Cloud is a more visual representation of your tags and their usage distribution. Along with the Tag Cloud come the 4 new Tag functions: remove, rename, split, and merge. These 4 functions will let you mess with your tags to your heart's content. If they are not enough, I'm all ears.

Posted by otis at 1:09 AM in /

Tuesday, 12 July 2005

Steve Mallett: Social Bookmarking Site GUIs Suck

Steve Mallett, the person behind the (once?) controversial de.lirio.us service says "Social Bookmarking Site GUIs Suck", but adds that he likes Simpy's UI the best.

Thanks for the compliments, Steve! As for functionality that doesn't work for you, please post a comment or email me at feedback@..., so I can get things adjusted to work for you and others.

Posted by otis at 11:41 PM in /
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