Up and down, and ... down
Just when all the DNS problems have been resolved we hear that our Internet Service Provider (ISP) is having some network problems. Arghh! Anyway, they are replacing hardware to resolve the problems and it should be fixed during the day (December 26).
Sorry for the inconvenience!
//Henrik
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I hope the problem gets fixed soon because Netvouz is by far the best social bookmarking place. I love the folder organization, the rating, and the sorting options.
Only thing I'd add is HTML links in the description. Sometimes you'd just like to mention a site people could visit while reading the description of the site which is linked....
I'm working on it... but this past week has really been a week in hell for Netvouz.
I'll consider your HTML link feature. I certainly see why it could be useful.
//Henrik
Thanks for your reply.
It shouldn't be too difficult, to include basic tags like the ones which can be used on this very text box where I'm writing right now.
I can read above the b, i and a tags are available.
"A", of course, is the anchor tag, which enables you to put Hypertext REFerences (links) on the text.
It's available everywhere, for example on the MySpace profile box there are no buttons for the tags, but they are supported.
I really admire your strength to do all this by yourself.
It's amazing how Netvouz is much more complete in features than other most popular places like Delicious, Digg, Furl etc. (owned not by one person, but by giants like Google, Yahoo! etc) where you can't even organize the links in folders, you just see the confusion of clouds of tags, and don't even think about sub-categories!
I hope you can keep up the good work, I'd suggest to look for sponsorship at the very least, and then for some company to develop the project of Netvouz (of course still with you as the leader), but backed by the funds and resources of a proper company.
I mean, I can't see why LookSmart would want to continue with the much weaker Furl when they could have something as powerful as Netvouz.
Hi again,
Agree, it wouldn't be difficult at all to support these HTML tags, but one thing to keep in mind is that it also opens up a new channel for spammers. I guess it wouldn't take long until spammers start filling their bookmark descriptions with href links. And links in the description is not something that Netvouz would control as tight as it does with regular bookmarks. So I need to think about how to do it in a proper way. (don't misunderstand me - I'm not closing any doors!)
And thanks for the very positive words about Netvouz! I guess the reason why Netvouz has several good features is that I spend my time developing the features instead of aggressively promoting the site.
Keep bookmarking and I'll keep developing (my list of features to add and improve is endless!)
//Henrik
Hi Henrik,
I understand your concern with spammers, but I just think you give the tools to people and them it 's up to them to make a fair use of them.
We have to come to terms spammers are part of the game.
You can't keep a control on them, they're going to spam through the bookmarks anyway.
Yahoo! can't stop the mail just because there's loads of spammers on their Groups.
I also think that, even if checking the home page is interesting, the most of the people come to Netvouz to check directories of people they already know through other sites or communities.
This is great and this is what makes you different from places like Delicious which are more focused on mass gathering of links or at most tagged links of users, but they don't even think at organizing folders.
Also links in text blocks are already featured everywhere and they're not that dangerous. For example on MySpace there are some spammers, but the most of the people are there for their genuine pages dedicated to their interests.
Uhm, now that I see it here below, would it be difficult to add a verifying image like the one here to post comments, so that people would have to write the charachters shown on the images before posting a link? With plenty of places where they can freely spam, that would put off the hardest of the spammers on Netvouz.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Hi again Mick,
Let's take the spam discussion offline. I have many ideas on how to deal - or not deal - with different types of "users".
Please contact me at "info at netvouz dot com" and I'll explain further.
//Henrik
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