A wished for mashup: listable+rollyo. Or, Entrepreneur Search
Lifehack.org posted a list of Great resources on Entrepreneurship created from their Listible community. (NOT listable. The vowel matters. Annoying site at listable.)
Listible allows one to create a list of web references and then tag the list. Looking at this list i thought, “Great, i can check these sites when i start looking into how best to … *sigh* Who am i kidding. I’ll just Google.” Really, would i go to twenty different sites to see what each had to say about, oh, the best way to hand out a business card to someone you’ve met in an elevator so it seems natural? (I always envision myself fumbling around….)
Then i remembered Rollyo, and so i created a search roll based on the twenty URLs in the Listible list. With each click, i’d mutter a plea that listible go have a long chat with rollyo, so listable lists can become rollyo searches…. Please! (I’ve made a comment to that effect in the lifehack.org site.) Here is the search roll and the list. I may prune or add to the search roll, influenced by the lifehack.org list, over time.
Also, in the “Spouses thinking about the same thing at the same time has what to do with the EPR paradox?” department, Christine sent me her rollyo profile just as I was setting up my own.
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August 16th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
I think Listible is a pretty good concept. Sure, we can always Google stuff, and that will often be the easiest/quickest solution. But Google results are getting more and more difficult to sort through these days, what with people trying to manipulate their page rankings and stuff like that. If I can find legitimate, helpful links quickly (like your list of entrepreneur blogs up there), then I’ll go for that rather than going for a Google search and having to spend extra time weeding through bogus sites.
August 16th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
@RisingSunofNihon :
I agree, listible is a good concept. It’s much like a bibliography and reminds me of how academic librarians would create curated lists of sites for users. If i was looking to add some RSS feeds in a particular area, or just find out about a general topic, listible seems great. For lists of software sites in a particular area — might be great. (Although wikipedia’s cross comparisons of blogging or CMS products seems to trump a list.)
But if i have a narrow topic, just finding twenty (plus!) great sites on enterpreneur sites only gets me half way. Dead tree metaphor: i’d want to check the index of each book before identifying the one that would help.
Listible + Rollyo: now i can can do my search against a vetted group of websites. Best of both worlds!