<story><title>Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/googles-new-bookmarking-service-previously-called-stars-has-gone-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Numberwang</author><text>Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology. With the resources Google have, it would be cool if they could create a site where you can follow other sites as they update. Perhaps this site could then even differentiate between different &amp;#x27;streams&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;feeds&amp;#x27; from sites. 
And in this workflow you could add the &amp;#x27;stars&amp;#x27; to articles and updates you would find interesting.&lt;p&gt;I hope someday they will create or have this system evolve into something like that, which would be a lot more useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>Ok, now I just re-read your comment and figured out the joke. That&amp;#x27;s some serious sarcasm talent, haha. Still going to (mostly) keep my comment though because of all the other comments that refer to this as &amp;quot;bookmarking&amp;quot; or mention &amp;quot;fixing bookmarks&amp;quot; with some sort of feed.&lt;p&gt;These are entirely different systems to me. We just happen to use bookmarks to keep track of feeds &amp;#x2F; updating websites. I have lots of bookmarks I keep for static content that I want to refer to constantly. Blog posts, specific documentation pages, Stack Overflow answers, etc. It&amp;#x27;s nice to just begin typing &amp;quot;Python async...&amp;quot; chrome&amp;#x27;s suggestions will show me my bookmarked link. I&amp;#x27;ve been looking into a better way to do this as my bookmarks grow, searching by page content would be a nice feature too. (I hear about Pinboard a lot on HN, and I&amp;#x27;ve been meaning to look into it. This manager seems neat as well. However that&amp;#x27;s for another comment&amp;#x2F;thread).&lt;p&gt;But that way of using bookmarks is a different goal than &amp;quot;bookmarking&amp;quot; a news website, a forum, etc. And I agree with you in that regard, that bookmarks still seem the best way to manage this is sort of silly. What you describe is something else, and certainly something which would be useful, but it&amp;#x27;s not a bookmark. A bookmark doesn&amp;#x27;t tell you when your favorite author has released a new book, or turn the page in a book for you. It holds a specific page that you&amp;#x27;d like to return to, and it does that job very well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/googles-new-bookmarking-service-previously-called-stars-has-gone-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Numberwang</author><text>Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology. With the resources Google have, it would be cool if they could create a site where you can follow other sites as they update. Perhaps this site could then even differentiate between different &amp;#x27;streams&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;feeds&amp;#x27; from sites. 
And in this workflow you could add the &amp;#x27;stars&amp;#x27; to articles and updates you would find interesting.&lt;p&gt;I hope someday they will create or have this system evolve into something like that, which would be a lot more useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BostonEnginerd</author><text>A great name for this product would be Google Reader!</text></comment>