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del.icio.us has a neat feature where if you tag a URL with for:carlfish, that URL will end up in my inbox. Inbox labels are private, in the sense that only the target username can access the summary page or RSS feed for that label.
This would be a neat way to bring pages to someone's attention. For example, if I want Mike to edit some documentation, I could label it as for:mike, and it would end up in his "inbox", which would presumably be accessible on the labels page of his profile. (Maybe we need some kind of "new" indicator to say that there's new stuff in the inbox?)
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CONFSERVER-5032 Add the ability to view & manage watchers of content
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[CONFSERVER-3866] for:username labels
The social bookmarking plugin does something like this for the bookmark content. The main problem at the moment is the range of allowed characters for labels is less then the range of characters for user names, hence not all usernames can be represented as labels.
Brian M. Thomas
added a comment - I'd like to vote for that, but I'd like to see it done in a much more robust manner, described in CONF-8629, because it would also allow me to do several things that I have wanted to do, for which the Metadata plugin is currently the closest thing to a solution, but still not close enough.
Briefly: instead of implementing yet another specific tag qualifier, why not just make the label system work with metadata tags? Ideally, the tags would be XML-namespace-qualifiable, but just generalizing what is already done with the my: prefix, and the for: prefix proposed here, would be a great start.
Brian M. Thomas
added a comment - I'd like to vote for that, but I'd like to see it done in a much more robust manner, described in CONF-8629 , because it would also allow me to do several things that I have wanted to do, for which the Metadata plugin is currently the closest thing to a solution, but still not close enough.
Briefly: instead of implementing yet another specific tag qualifier, why not just make the label system work with metadata tags? Ideally, the tags would be XML-namespace-qualifiable, but just generalizing what is already done with the my: prefix, and the for: prefix proposed here, would be a great start. 
Guy Fraser [Adaptavist.com]
added a comment - Guy Fraser [Adaptavist.com]
added a comment - Mixing CONF-3866 with CONF-5032 would lead to some pretty flexible and very useful features. Guy Fraser [Adaptavist.com]
added a comment - That would be a fantastic feature! There a LOTS of times when I've wanted a way to bring specific people's (or groups) attention to a page or attachment, etc., and I've always had to resort to email (as they don't always see things listed in recent updates lists on busy sites / spaces).
Guy Fraser [Adaptavist.com]
added a comment - That would be a fantastic feature! There a LOTS of times when I've wanted a way to bring specific people's (or groups) attention to a page or attachment, etc., and I've always had to resort to email (as they don't always see things listed in recent updates lists on busy sites / spaces).
Confluence now has support for @mentions which kind of fulfils this issue. Marking as resolved.