We’ve redone the way that galleries are laid out so that you can fully control the layout of items by number of columns and rows (see the API link in the side bar).

e.g.
http://wists.com/david/?out=plain&cols=7&rows=4
creates a 7 by 4 gallery without navigation bars.

This uses a default skin for how items are shown. There are two […]

http://wists.com/david/all/2005-03-25
shows entries added on March 25

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shows entries added on and after March 25

We’ll be putting up comprehensive faq’s and help files over the next week or so, and start to properly organize feedback. We’ll also try and keep everyone up to date with new features and development progress.

Thanks to everyone who has been emailing me with tips and suggestions.

Tons of work to do, and some cool new […]

By popular request, you can now choose a different username than the one automatically assigned to you.
Click on the settings tab in the top right to choose a new one.
The username you are assigned automatically is based upon your first name followed by a number. If you are the first David to sign up, your […]

Either within the bookmarklet or within Wists itself (click on details beneath any thumbnail image), you can now forward an individual item via email.

Why is this useful?
Several people pointed out that they wanted to point people to something that they thought would interest someone.
Sending a link to the page was not enough, sending a link […]

Thanks to some fantastic work by Adam Michela at Axentric, there is a much improved ‘add to Wists’ bookmarklet which can be installed from here, or reinstalled via the help menu in Wists.

The new ‘wistlet’ has the following features:

Now grabs CSS background images.

Removes duplicate images.

Allows choosing a thumbnail screenshot of the page itself, if you […]

The search will look up users, tags and individual item titles and descriptions all at once - returning the results for each, separately. - So there are no parameters and advanced search settings. Again the rule is: have the user do the least work.

Because tags tend to have multiple variants with the same stem, e.g. […]

» Automatic friends networks.
If you click on items to add to your wists from other users or someone else adds from your wists, they automatically become part of your network of friends.
» Automatic groups.

Beneath you friends list, all the tags in your friends network are shown. Click on any friend and the tags in their […]

Wists has just launched in beta.

Wists in Financial Times article on Internet 2.0