Too Lazy to Click that StumbleUpon Button? Playericious May Be for You
Social bookmarking sites - as many of us know - are a veritable treasure trove of information, especially when it comes to common tags like "howto" or "webdesign." But sometimes, clicking through all of those links can get a bit arduous. That's what makes playericious so great. It's designed to let you be lazy. Just a few keystrokes and you'll soon be perusing the best delicious and ma.gnolia have to offer.
Playericious is incredibly simple to use: specify a tag for which you'd like to see pages, pick delicious or magnolia as the source, and hit go. Then just sit back and watch the most popular pages stream by.
There's something strangely appealing about watching playericious do what it does. Part of it is the ability to focus the results on what you'd like to see, and part of it likely has to do with that "I wonder what's coming next?" appeal of services like StumbleUpon. Well, and then there's the fact that it's just so easy.
The one drawback is that playericious uses frames. That means that any time a page with a frame-busting script comes by, the service throws an error and stops working. I only encountered this issue a few times. But it does happen.
The developer claims that the service isn't terribly useful. But I'd beg to differ. After a week of saving new bookmarks, I found it incredibly useful to point playericious at my account and let it run - simply to refresh my memory about what I had found.
Take a few minutes to test drive playericious. I'm sure you'll find something interesting to do with it, too.
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I had to laugh when I saw the title of the post. Anyone who's too lazy to click the StumbleUpon button really has got problems. Makes you wonder how they found the energy to sit in front of a computer in the first place.
What is the Firefox theme this guy is using in the video?
Wow! Let me try this one. I guess this is a better social bookmarking site.
I am the developer of playericous and I just wanted to point out that it is down in that it doesn't work at the moment. This is because apparently all the sudden traffic and delicious is now blocking our server from getting the URLS. You can still use magnolia as it doesn't seem as stingy.
Try back later after all the comotion has died down.
Thanks for checking it out and thanks to RWW for the link!
Ah we are temporarily plagued by RWW's popularity as, when trying this site we are told they are overwhelmed, perhaps blocked by del
RRW folks, be careful who you write reviews about. You might cost them some downt-time as is the case with playericious.
"We are currently experiencing heavy traffic due to a review from RWW... unfortunately delicious appears to be randomly blocking our api requests so it MAY not work. Please use magnolia to try out playericious and try back later when we are unblocked!... thanks!"
That's funny. This is RWW :)
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January 15, 2009 11:37 PM