Jeffrey McManus

I was heartened to see an article on MyWeb in Forbes but crestfallen to see how badly the writer bungled it. (Or, to put that in a more charitable way, how badly we explained it.)

I love MyWeb but it’s one of those things that isn’t useful until you use it for a while. The induhvidual who wrote the Forbes article apparently thought it would work like Web search, where you enter in some text and you automagically get recommendations to links entered by your friends.

Well, duh, of course it doesn’t work that way. First you have to denote who your friends are (by inviting them), and then (optionally) you save and tag some links of your own. (If you don’t have any friends, invite me, my email address is my first and last name mashed together at yahoo dot com.)

In exchange for the (minimal, really) amount of effort, you get the ability to view your bookmarks from any browser and to see friends’ links near the top of your Yahoo search results. It is the coolness, I can assure you.