http://www.faviki.com<p>Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows people to tag webpages they want to remember with Wikipedia terms.<p>Unlike classic tags, which are just words, "Wikipedia tags" represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. So, instead of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags (cocacola, coca-cola, coca+cola, CocaCola) there are just the one unique “Coca-Cola” tag everybody uses.<p>You can register or just sign in as demo/demo and try it with bookmarklet.<p>The webapp is still in beta, but I just wanted valuable feedback from the YC community to help in next iterations. Thanks!
I like the concept! Tags have never made sense to me because I may describe very similar things using very different tags depending on my mood that day, what I happen to be thinking about, or any other external influences. But if there are designated "tags" for each concept then your bookmarks really are better organized.<p>Definitely a good job overall!
Very nice. A few thoughts:<p>1. Interface. Is there any way to rewrite it so that the user can just add tags naturally, and then let the program make suggestions? It's a bit frustrating to wait, after each term, for the program to search for the corresponding tag. If you could input your own tags, and then it could list an official suggestion beside each typed term, I think that might increase usability.<p>2. Very minor point, but the demo video should be easier to find. I could be alone in this, but I always try to poke around for one as the easiest way to quickly grasp a web app, and the link was buried at the bottom of the page.<p>Seems like a great app, though; the complete lack of structure for Delicious tags was always one of the things that stressed me about it.
Any way to import my existing bookmarks from del.icio.us (and clean up the tags)? Seems like that's one of your biggest barriers to adoption, at least from people who already use a social bookmarking site.<p>The app looks great, nice and clean, but I already have hundreds of bookmarks in del.icio.us, and don't want to start from scratch somewhere else.
Great concept! Certainly does help to structure tags that can grow out of control in any tag cloud. I'm wondering if you've considered building this as an API or dev library so that it can be used by developers not just for bookmarking but also for tagging in general. But then, where's the money in that, eh? (^_^)
Personally, I love the UI, awesome design, awesome execution. Bookmarklet is sweet as well.<p>But, I don't know why I need to use this? Why will this help me? What would I store in there?<p>Currently, my bookmarks menu bar is pretty sufficient.. Is the idea to bookmark stuff I don't know a lot about so I can learn about it via wikipedia?
Frankly, I hate to see someone with your kind of drive, cleverness, and design sense working on something so trivial. Is a bookmarking tool the most useful thing you can think of working on? If so, post on yc, I'm sure people will toss out a few ideas with no strings attached.
Very interesting, and good job there! I was contemplating doing something similar, but got diverted with other things. Would you share a bit more about your experience with using dbpedia?<p>Are you querying dbpedia for the tags? If not, how deep do your tags cross-link?
Might want to checkout Zigtag in private beta.<p><a href="http://www.zigtag.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zigtag.com/</a><p>mention YC when applying and I'll fast track your invite.<p>We are doing some great things with semantic bookmarking as well.
Really, really nice. Excellent work, and I especially like the toolbar button to make bookmarking easy. I'm seriously thinking about using this over del.icio.us.<p>One quick question, is there a way to import del.icio.us links?
how will you handle homonyms like 'bow':<p>from wikipedia:<p># bow - To bend forward at the waist in respect (e.g. "bow down")
# bow - the front of the ship (e.g. "bow and stern")
# bow - the weapon which shoots arrows (e.g. "bow and arrow")
# bow - a kind of tied ribbon (e.g. bow on a present, a bowtie)
# bow - to bend outward at the sides (e.g. a "bow-legged" cowboy)
Who is the target user? I agree that a semantic web is better, but I cant honestly see myself using it.<p>As far as execution and design however, nice job!