Comments on: Obviously, I am now too cool for the likes of you

Obviously, I am now too cool for the likes of you

Katemonkey — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:28:00 -0800

Tired of people sending you links you've seen weeks before? Old News Baby lets you create a list of urls you've seen, so you can refer back to your inherent coolness when people are talking about them. via ResearchBuzz

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:30:16 -0800

Of course, the possibilities for self-pimping/spamming are endless...

By: sninky-chan

sninky-chan — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:40:15 -0800

This is a great idea. I have been using del.icio.us for this purpose for a year and a half, and it works quite well.

By: dontoine

dontoine — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:43:50 -0800

http://www.hotmail.com/ discovered by PyroMyst about 21 minutes ago damn, scooped again.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:43:53 -0800

Yep, seems a whole lot like del.icio.us, just with a bolder timestamp. Nice, clean design, though.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:54:30 -0800

I saw this ages ago.

By: numlok

numlok — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:56:44 -0800

Interesting... Triplo on the del.icio.us point though (what, you haven't heard of it? ...heh heh). In fact, related to this "Firstism", there's even a cool algorithm for finding out which users find things faster than you. I prefer RSS feeds of my favorite del.icio.us tags on a two minute refresh. :^)

By: malaprohibita

malaprohibita — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:11:40 -0800

Just another weapon in the meaningless "Cooler than Thou" culture war.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:02:09 -0800

Yeah, but at least nobody in the "Cooler Than Thou Culture War" is using guns...

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:55:27 -0800

I'm worried I might really have to use this (or delicious) to stop people IMing me old jokes. Friendly spam really is driving me mad. And it's demoralizing -- every time someone demonstrates that they didn't catch a net joke until two weeks after the fact, it reminds me that unlike me, they were too busy out having a life.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:04:23 -0800

When they build an interface that allows me to filter my email through this thing, let me know. "Message Undeliverable: Account does not accept email that is SOOO five minutes ago, Loser."

By: shoppingforsanity

shoppingforsanity — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:44:11 -0800

Nice jacquilynne! I would sign up for that...

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:53:49 -0800

So this is like del.icio.us without the tags?

By: malaprohibita

malaprohibita — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:33:31 -0800

Yeah, but at least nobody in the "Cooler Than Thou Culture War" is using guns... Totally true, but why use Old News Baby when you can just direct people to Metafilter? :)

By: shoepal

shoepal — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:35:17 -0800

jacquilynne, shoppingforsanity, it was called speedle, back in 00/01. It didn't work (out). I've been secretly lazyWebWishing for something like OldNewsBaby, though I wanted it to be called MemeLag^tm. Sigh.