Considering I tend to take semi-pride in my level of geekiness, there is a considerable amount of new technologies and innovation that I find out from my wife. I find that fitting though, as I think she would make a wonderful research librarian. She loves doing research and finding new things online, and she uses that talent to find things that she thinks I might enjoy.
Well, today she found a new one for me, Pluck. From my limited time playing with it tonight, Pluck is a decent cross between Bloglines and del.icio.us. It’s similar to Bloglines in the way you can subscribe to and organize feeds. It’s similar to del.icio.us by the fact that you can also store links. It differs from del.icio.us because it stores the links in the folder structure used by the feeds rather than by tags.
You can run Pluck one of two ways. You can run it as a web app, like Bloglines and del.icio.us, or you can install an addin to IE or an extension to Firefox and run it as a browser app. I started out by trying it as a web app, but the interface operated rather slowly. Once I got the Firefox extension installed it is now working like they probably intended it to.
On my initial review I think that heavy users of del.icio.us will not like going back to folders. I never got into del.icio.us that much. I think I only have 10 links there. I am a moderate user of Bloglines, and my wife is a heavy user. While the interface is very similar, it might take me a while to consider leaving Bloglines for Pluck. All in all, Pluck is definitely worth a closer look.
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