Keeping it brief – Pietro Polsinelli’s blog

The main limit of creating a collection of bookmarks and tagging them lies in your interpretation of bookmarks. A bookmark from a formal point of view is an URL, but actually for the user in function of the context it can be a to-do, an idea, a goal…

You can have tags for types, along with “usual” tags, but the problem is behavior. You need links semantically classified as different to have different behavior. That is what Licorize does, more than Delicious and usual bookmarking services do.

I’ve been looking at friends’ Delicious accounts, and asking how they’ve been using them. An answer I got frequently is this:

When I started using it it was great. But as I kept bookmarking, I never did maintenance, and old links that have become irrelevant are always there and I could no longer see what was relevant and what not. It ended being an unreadable cloud and so I stopped using it.

In Licorize too you preserve all bookmarks, but maintenance comes naturally from the fact that you distribute bookmarks into “teams at work” i.e. projects, ideas, presentations – and also because the user interface is more reactive and allows more “in place” actions. Delicious basic approach is flat – which is great at the beginning, but in time is not enough in many cases.

Want to try it out? Licorize has a complete Delicious bookmarks import.

A note for Licorize alpha version: a great feature that Delicious has and Licorize currently doesn’t is sharing bookmarks at an URL – we’re building that and there too we are trying to do something better than a plain list. It will be something similar to what Flipboard does to Tweet lists.