I’ve been a little silent for awhile, but that’s because I’ve been working on something that I’m pretty excited about.
I started Sympoze, two years ago, as a social bookmarking site for philosophers. I’m now expanding it to all areas of academia.
Social bookmarking for philosophy won’t be lost here. We are eventually going to structure the site so that academics only vote up links in their area. So when people click on the philosophy tab, it will only show sites that have been submitted to the Philosophy category and have been voted up by philosophers.
I just launched the expansion a few hours ago. I’ve also added some new features. The one I am most excited about is the ability to login using many of the main online accounts out there (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn).
Spread the word to your friends in other departments.
Like I said before, I think this is a great idea! It could really expand the base of users and make the site thrive. I’ll do my best to spread the word. I don’t think I know many non-philosophers, though.
Thanks Josh,
It would be awesome if you could spread the word. And if you have any requests/feature suggestions let us know.
One thing we are in the process of working on is some kind of voting restriction. As the site grows we want the voting up of philosophy stories to reflect the opinions of just the philosophers…same for the other areas…We already know how to do that…that’s what enabled us to launch the expansion, but we’re testing certain things out first.
If you have any suggestions on that front, let us know.
p.s. we made the switch just after you submitted your three most recent stories. I think we lost those…because they weren’t in the database backup when we launched the expansion.
If you want, submit them again.