Social Bookmarking..

Following along with my previous post "One thought ...too many places", I want to talk about "Social Bookmarking".
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content" (Definition from Wikipedia).

In short, another way to share your stories with your friends you have on facebook, twitter, MSN live, Linked in etc, etc. If you are like me, you probably have 2 sets of friends, professional relations and "everyone else with whom you don't mind sharing pictures from your last vacation". So why isn't there a single site or an "add on" where you can manage all your social bookmarking needs. So all you do is pick one of the 2 lists and hit "Go".

May be there is, may be not. At least something to think about.

"bing"...an interesting name for a search engine.

Bing, from Microsoft's perspective, the biggest competitor to Google till date. So what does "bing" mean. The first thing that came into my mind was "Chandler Bing", I am sure there are some ardent "Friends" fans in Microsoft but I doubt they would name their best effort yet engine with their favorite TV character. So, the curious mind I am, I went to google definitions and typed in "bing". Here are some results I got:

Bing is a Unix program which is essentially a ping with added network throughput measurements

A slag heap (also called bing, Boney piles, culm, waste coal, Terekons (Russian), gob piles, or slate dumps) is a pile built of accumulated tailings, which are by-products of mining

Bing is a Chinese term used to describe dough-based Chinese flatbreads, pancakes, unleavened dough foods, or indeed any food item with a flat disk

I wonder which one of these definitions made Microsoft pick "bing" as their search term, could it be the slag heap, I wonder.

One thought ..too many places

Am I the only one or everyone thinks the same way about this...there are way too many places to post your single thought for the day.. Here is a quick scenario, I wanted to write my thoughts on purchasing a mac book.. so I sat to think about where I should start..a few places that popped into my head: Facebook, twitter (I could get away with keeping it small:)), My blog (that is here), Google groups and other discussion boards I am a part of.

Now, I don't mind copying and pasting into these sites, but when I get replies to each of these, I will have to go to every single website to read and reply to them....how inefficient.. why can't I just see all these from one place and reply to all of the messages from one spot which will then post the comments to appropriate sites..and I am DONE!