Show HN: Follow the Bookmarks of Leading Thinkers and Interesting People

by dsowers • 14 years ago

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603techguy• 14 years ago

Cool idea. I think this is a great way to see what people actually read online and not just the random thing that catches their interest for a moment.

Great potential to find some high quality sites and information.

dsowers3• 14 years ago

Thanks! We built it to combat the low-quality content problem. There is only one way to get content into briarpatch–through a bookmark. So it provides a new way to discover good sites. (plus you get to see your friends' bookmarks, and follow the bookmarks of experts in various fields so you can stay abreast on the latest and greatest)

grest• 14 years ago

Interesting site- if anything it's let me know how disorganized my bookmarks are. I can see how using this app would encourage one to categorize their daily inventory of interesting links to properly labeled folders.

Just a comment on the layout: it's certainly clean and straight-forward however on the feed page I would rather see the link title have more prominence over the user icon. Of course, this preference of mine comes from years of using HN and reddit.

Also, I would like to be able to see all the users that are on the site- is that possible?

Cheers! Hope this works out for you!

dsowers3• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! I have been considering removing the pictures next to the feed. You're probably right about it competing for you attention.

dsowers3• 14 years ago

You don't need to register to check out the content. You can see the "hot" bookmarks by going here: http://briarpat.ch/hot

Also, you can see top-rated bookmark folders by going here: http://briarpat.ch/folders

Show HN: Follow the Bookmarks of Leading Thinkers and Interesting People

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