Web Bookmarks Manager
By Guillaume Mouron on Sunday 22 October 2006, 02:33 - Permalink
During the last few weeks, I've been thinking of a web application I liked to see ...
This would simply be a del.icio.us-like or blogmarks-like (choose the one you want) application BUT where you could host it on your own website.
First reason of self-hosting, not being "filed" by a company. You're also not sure it won't end its service and you'll lose your bookmarks.
The third reason is because of a feature I thought : imagine you install it on a company intranet. Every employee could put links related to his work so that first he could find it later and secondly it could benefit to other employees and/or another employee that would have to continue the work of the first one ...
So the employee finds a new link, he adds it to the portal and tags it correctly with keywords about what is in this link of course, but he could also add a tag giving a target (e.g. if it's interesting for every employee in the company or every employee in his service or just for people working on a specific project, ...).
On a more personal-use point of view, I would also see a public/private system so that you can publicly share links with people coming on your website (and why not a corresponding RSS feed ?) but also keep some personal bookmarks (like the one to this photo album of your nephew for instance
).
I would also add a "temp" system for keeping bookmarks that you know might be interesting but you don't have time to read (I said "system" and not "tag" as Nicolas is against the temp tag
).
Well, that's more or less all I had to say about it, maybe I'll do it in a coming future (maybe based on hariCow ?
)
PS: the date you entered the bookmark would also be kept to find back bookmarks by date
Comments
There's already a system out that allows you to do exactly what you want. It's called SiteBar (http://sitebar.org/downloads.php) and can either be hosted on their servers or you can download the code yourself and install it on your own PHP/MySQL equipped server.
I've been using a very early version for ages now and it's extremely useful.