Since I don't use bookmarks anymore, I've gotta put this stuff somewhere.

That's it for now.

Posted by jzawodn at November 01, 2003 05:56 PM

Reader Comments
# Pete Duffy said:

OK, I'll ask. How come you don't use bookmarks anymore? Do you use something else?

on November 1, 2003 10:25 PM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

Simple. There's no easy way to share bookmarks among on the computers I happen to use now and then.

on November 1, 2003 10:34 PM
# Jonas M Luster said:

I've started to use rsync for all my bookmarks, using the webserver as the authoritative server.

on November 2, 2003 12:21 AM
# Victor said:

I think I have a very good solution, but you may not like it -- using Blogger, right, Google's Blogger. This is my bookmark page:
http://www.pacdc.com/bookmarks/

IE has Google's Tool Bar, which has a "Blog This" function. Firebird has "Blog this" extension. Both take you a couple of clicks to bookmark a page. No typing needed.

You can even create multiple blogs for categories, and organize the bookmarks that way.

You can alway password protect it and let no one know. :-)

on November 2, 2003 12:49 AM
# Kayode Okeyode said:

I tend to put my bookmarks on my blog too! Although my excuse is that it is becoming difficult to synchronise bookmarks between my many browsers. I will be checking out Victor's suggestion though.

on November 2, 2003 02:57 AM
# Brian said:

I started using .Mac between my PowerBook and my G5. Works beautifully!

I actually wrote a bookmark search engine in Python that uses MySQL's full text search. It worked really well (even given my complete inability to design a workable interface) and it lives on one of my (really freakin' slow) servers, so I can use it from anywhere. I stopped using it when I went Mac, however.

on November 2, 2003 05:04 AM
# Dennis Pallett said:

Why not use bookmarks, and have your browser export them now and then?

That's what I do, and it works perfectly!

on November 2, 2003 08:59 AM
# Tom Kingsely said:

...Python...MySQL...

Thanks for making me sick to my stomach today.

on November 2, 2003 11:54 AM
# John Johnson said:

So everybody just blogs their bookmarks? Including all the pr0n ones?? :P

on November 2, 2003 02:37 PM
# dmitry said:

take a look on freshmeat, there seems to be quite a few projects dedicated to bookmark management.

on November 2, 2003 02:51 PM
# Courtney said:

*chuckle* I blog a lot of mine on my Interesting Things page. Supremely easy, and Typepad's QuickPost thingy lets me add, file, and take away at my whim. Hey, and I don't even work in tech - I'm all impressed with myself now!

on November 2, 2003 05:02 PM
# Michael Moncur said:

Ever since I added a bookmarklet that lets me quickly add items to my mini-link-list on my blog, I've used it far more than IE's stupid bookmarks.

I keep thinking I should make a private version for the less interesting things.

on November 3, 2003 12:52 AM
# Hardy said:

create a weblog with blogger and then use the Blogger Icon on the google toolbar. Your site will be a link in the blogger weblog.

on November 3, 2003 12:56 AM
# grr said:

check out http://wwwampire.mozdev.org/

on November 3, 2003 01:09 AM
# Kenny Gatdula said:

I use Yahoo's Companion toolbar to share my bookmarks among many PC's. Works OK, as long as your PC's are running windows and IE.

on November 3, 2003 06:56 AM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

Too bad I run neither Windows or IE.

on November 3, 2003 07:03 AM
# Larry said:

Doesn't Yahoo's toolbar install a bunch of spyware and other junk on your computer?

on November 3, 2003 12:56 PM
# Evan said:

Here's a solution you might try - I don't know much about it, but perhaps...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/booksync/

on November 4, 2003 01:05 PM
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