Monday, February 05, 2007

Would you like images with that bookmark?

Songbird dot on Blue Dot

Still thinking about thumbnails to go with your online bookmarks (A del.icio.us makeover and Going Dotty). I prefer BlueDot's system that allows you to select a graphic from the page to use with your dot. My Songbird Media Player dot provides an ideal example. But what about pages that don't have a suitable image. Perhaps they don't have any images or the only images are ads. Then it would be great if you could use a screen grab of the page. No doubt this is a bit labor intensive to do on the fly on the off chance that you might want that. But perhaps it could be a distinct process that the user could initiate.

Another option might be that sites could provide a preferred image for use by bookmarking systems, in the same way that they supply a favicon (I guess a 'doticon' is going too far) . This would provide sites an additional opportunity to control their branding. Which is never a bad thing IMHO.

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