Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] Bookmark database

[Jough D. <jou...@gm...>]

I know what you mean about wanting your links on your site.  You
mentioned SQLite in FF3, which may be an option for offline caching,
but you may also want to consider Google Gears, which works in more
browsers and may or may not be more robust (if slightly less "open"
than SQLite).

- J.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Neil Rest <Nei...@rc...> wrote:
> 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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