Some sort of always available bookmark service is incredibly important in my opinion.
I don't really like the idea of bookmarks as a social service. I don't want to bother with tagging and managing the public/private status of
links etc. Basically, except for a very limited set of circumstances, I don't really want people to know what I've bookmarked. Or...
Anyway, there's delicious.com/
and there was ma.gnolia.com/
which promised to release an open source version of the platform, something I was really looking forward to.
Apparently they've had some sort of catastrophic database corruption and all the data is gone.
Crap.
So that service is dead for now.
oops, that sucks
backup?????????????????
I agree with you that I want this too.
the always avaialble bookmark but without the social crap
Reminds me of Richard Stallman saying that Cloud Computing is a trap: www.guardian.co.uk/techn...
Which by the way, I have been saying for years and years and years (not that anyone cares what I say.)
Anyway...
Now I'm going to recommend a bookmark service with probably the most social features of all.
Why? Because it's pretty damn good IF
you don't get suckered into the social features!
Actually there's a lot about it that's annoying but apparently the service I want doesn't exist.
This one works well enough (assuming you can export your bookmarks) let me check...
I'm on board then.
Actually the advanced features would work well esp for short term research projects and when collaborating with groups online...
For example, let's say a group was planning a trip together. The service would allow the group to share a collection of pages...
Even highlight and annotated pages.
Which everyone in the group would see. This should allow collaboration through the web without endlessly emailing links back and forth.
For the most part I'll just click 'bookmark' from the little bookmarklet (called Diigolet) that can be added to a browser without installing
anything.
that sounds good.