Is there a marketplace for bookmarks?

January 11, 2006 6:00 PM

Is there a marketplace on the web for bookmarks? I would love to buy experts in various fields bookmarks... I can imagine some more well known individuals (sean penn, yoko ono, ted turner for example) bookmarks might be worth some dough?
posted by specialk420 to computers & internet (8 comments total)

While it's not exactly what you're looking for, have you heard of del.icio.us? If it's community bookmarks you seek, as in "what do people who like or know about XYZ bookmark", it might achieve what you're after.

If you're more after sentimental/curiosity/celebrity type stuff though, I suppose it wouldn't help.
posted by twiggy at 6:02 PM on January 11, 2006

Huh. I thought the question was about these bookmarks.
posted by bachelor#3 at 7:21 PM on January 11, 2006

Me, too.

I'm confused: Do you want to buy bookmarks formerly owned by celebrities, or bookmarks which depict celebrities?
posted by Miko at 8:06 PM on January 11, 2006

I think specialk420 is talking about Internet favorites/bookmarks, the idea being you can gain insight into the ideas and inspirations of successful people/celebrities. Something along the lines of the celebrity playlists on iTunes.

And no, I've never heard of any type of bookmark marketplace. However, I don't think their bookmarks would be significantly different from any casual Internet user. Maybe they have a super-secret forum for sharing movie scripts, business ideas, etc. but something like that would have to be invite-only. Look at the celebrity iTunes playlists - they listen to the exact same Top 40 hits as everyone else.
posted by junesix at 8:07 PM on January 11, 2006

Well, there's Metafilter...
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 9:28 PM on January 11, 2006

I think most rich celebs either don't surf the web very much (they'll just ask their assistant for info & stuff) or it'll contain like 7 urls like WSJ.com, their broker, etc ... boring stuff. I could see where it might be a cool feature in WIRED but I can't see anyone paying for it ... whie yes, I'm sure you could sell a couple hundred sets of Donald Trump but I can't see where it would be worth a great deal of money or interest.
posted by jbelkin at 11:46 PM on January 11, 2006

I can't possibly imagine anyone wanting to pay for a list of someone else's bookmarks, celebrity or no. It seems like you'd either get a list of a dozen or so standards ("oh look, he's bookmarked CNN") or if they're anything like most mefites, a giant list of a coulpe hundred random sites, a third of which are dead, a third of which are very specific to some certain interest and very boring in the general sense.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:08 AM on January 12, 2006

hmm... not a ton of useful advice. i for one would pay ten bucks for any of these guys exported bookmarks... probably more if it was updated monthly or weekly
posted by specialk420 at 8:46 AM on January 12, 2006