Social Bookmarking Survey

I’ve been alerted to a survey that is a pretty straightforward “Attempt to Discover what Social Bookmarking Users consider the Most Important and Desired Features in a Bookmark Manager.” The folks at blinklist.com are conducting the survey (which is more like a pole with an open ended question rather than a full survey). They’re going to share the results, so I’m looking forward to that. Any value that comes out of it will have to do with how many people actually put some thought into answering the question, which is never predictable. I’m sure anyone who reads this is quite thoughtful, so please share at:

http://www.mindvalley.com/socialbookmarking/

My answer was: Well, I love visualizations, which I usually see done by third parties with delicious data. I also love exploring to find new sites, although this process is a bit frustrating because I’m always going off on a tangent and I forget what I started off looking for. I’m generally pretty focused, but exploring these SBS I’ll start off looking for resources on social network analysis and end up on a page rating brands of swiss cheese. I’m one of those productivity people so this drives me nuts - except when my tangent takes me to something useful for what I’m working on. I think social bookmarking is going to become more mainstream but it will take some time to convince people to add one more system to their lives.