Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Bookmark database

[Neil R. <Nei...@rc...>]

I don't want my data residing on an alien server.  They can and do 
vanish; get bought/sold; and unilaterally change their privacy and 
access policies.
This isn't about "my site".  I expect code to be open; data is 
proprietary.  (Hey, this list gets a "sourceforge" link appended to 
each email!)

(Data interchange facilities are certainly on the list; we can 
exchange all or part of our respective lists, even retaining origin 
stamps for individual entries.)


At 05:45 PM 4/27/2008, "Jough Dempsey" <jou...@gm...> wrote:
>I like the way Magnolia lets you add bookmarks from a simple bookmarklet:
>
>http://ma.gnolia.com/
>
>Delicious is of course the leader in this area, but its interface
>leaves a bit to be desired: http://del.icio.us
>
>http://reddit.com/ and http://digg.com focus on the social bookmarking aspect.
>
>I guess your first design decision is how are you going to
>differentiate your site from the throngs of competitors?  What itch
>are you scratching, or how are you scratching a current itch better
>than what's already out there?


> >  On 4/21/08, Neil Rest <Nei...@rc...> wrote:
> >  > The last time I looked, there didn't seem to be a good database for web
> >  > bookmarks.  Considering how much weird stuff has a dozen 
> different projects
> >  > going on out there, it seemed an odd gap, so I decided I 
> wanted to do one.
> >  > (I now have almost enough time, energy, and stability to start 
> serious work.
> >  >  We'll see.)
> >  >
> >  > The biggest, broadest question is the various lookup approaches to
> >  > implement.  The more the better, broadly -- you ought to be in charge of
> >  > your collection, not vice versa -- but I'm no library scientist, or even
> >  > retrieval expert.
> >  >
> >  > So the question I'm broadcasting is:  How would you like to be able to
> >  > search your own collection of bookmarks?  Secondarily, what good (i.e.,
> >  > "user friendly" for some value of user) ways of doing searches 
> do you know
> >  > of, or think ought to go into an ideal bookmarker?


Neil
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