Lately I’m playing badly with RawSugar, a powerful web2.0 social bookmarking platform that, starting from a delicious like idea, adds a bit of secret sauce and of hierarchical tagging.

I’m really curious about hierarchical tagging, especially to understand to which extent people are intestered in using it.

An idea that could also be of interested for me is letting people not only saving their pages but also quoting excerpts out of them: when I decide to add a page to my social bookmarking tool, I would also like saving a few central phrases that contain the main messages of that page and that I can later use to keep this page found.

So, to the usual fields (title, description, tags) you could add other fields named “Quotation 1″, “Quotation 2″, etc..

This could be done using a little bit of Javascript through a text field in which I can add a quote. After having submitted it, the old textfield could be hidden (i.e display:none) while a new textfield (same kind but another ID) could be introduced dynamically.

This quotations could be presented later to the user, to remember the most important parts of the page or could be quoted in a blog.

What are the main benefits?

• the user can keep things found at a better level of granularity
• the searchability gets improved because users would be stimulated in adding more descriptive contents to their urls
• associating more useful content to each saved page, makes people coming back to the social bookmarking tool to read again that content
• this feature could be used to add a relationship between the platform and the author’s blog (RawSugar is already working on this and I’m loving it)

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