Since changes to Firefox made exporting bookmarks from Ice* a pain, I’m trying to find a social bookmarking site that is:-
- run on free software
- provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK)
- provides all my bookmarks for download/backup in some easy format (even an HTML page would be fine)
- at least lets me view without javascript, so I can use my bookmarks from my smartphone easily
Is that so much to ask for? I’d probably add whatever is used the the blog hosting platform. So far, I’ve looked at:-
- delicious, furl, digg, stumbleupon, technorati, facebook – the blog host links these from every post but none of them look like free software and most make it hard to download bookmarks;
- Reddit – I’m not sure that CPAL is a free software license because of the Original Developer oddities;
- Magnolia – I thought it was free but I can’t find the licence now;
- Sitebar – close but javascript needed to view.
I’m wondering about downloading something like b. or insipid and parking it on software.coop somewhere. Am I missing an obvious candidate?
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15 comments so far
1 Michal Čihař // Nov 24, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I’m currently more or less looking for same (I’d also like some kind of integration to browser), but I did not dare to run own service yet, as I don’t wan to maintain yet another thing on my server…
2 anon // Nov 24, 2008 at 2:17 pm
See http://ma.gnolia.org/ for the code. Or links to it. Or links promising it. Something like that. Looks like it’s a Fails app. sigh.
3 rjc // Nov 24, 2008 at 2:29 pm
http://www.furl.net/doc/faq#backend
http://givealink.org/
4 MJ Ray // Nov 24, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Thanks for the comments so far. That’s pretty much what I thought about Magnolia. Both Magnolia and givealink are flash-based pages which tell me little. I don’t understand the relevance of the furl link – I can see that users can download everything, but where’s the site source code so we could use it again easily if needed?
5 Don Barry // Nov 24, 2008 at 6:14 pm
the Horde framework has a module (trean) that does bookmarking. And Horde is of course GPL.
Horde3 is packaged for Debian, but the trean module is not. But it’s trivial to install the horde3 package and then grab the FRAMEWORK_3 tag of trean against horde3 from cvs, and then stick it in /usr/share/horde3
6 davide // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:09 pm
and diigo?
7 Leo Arias // Nov 24, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Now I’m using connotea. No complaints so far…
http://www.connotea.org
http://www.connotea.org/user/elopio
It’s not as good looking as del.icio.us, but it’s free.
8 Anonymous // Nov 24, 2008 at 9:12 pm
At one point I used Foxmarks, which worked beautifully. However, I recently discovered that Foxmarks quietly moved from the Apache license to a proprietary license and stopped providing source code.
At this point, I need a new bookmark service myself, though I don’t really care about the social aspect. I just need some way to synchronize bookmarks across systems.
Ah, for Mozilla Weave to get finished…
9 Adam Sampson // Nov 24, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I had a look around a while ago when del.icio.us’s interface was redesigned into unusable Web 2.0 rubbish, and didn’t find one I liked. I ended up bashing my own together with Python and SQLite that’s pretty much a clone of the old del.icio.us interface, with import and export in the same format:
http://bookmarks.offog.org/
http://offog.org/code/misccode.html#tasty.py
Dunno if that’s of any use to you…
10 MJ Ray // Nov 25, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for more great suggestions!
Tasty looks interesting, but I don’t see how to create an account, so I guess it’s another option if we go the self-hosting route.
Connotea is Nature’s one – I’d heard about this before but forgotten it and didn’t find it on my search. GNU GPL, OpenID login… but now the site just went unreachable for me. Gah, what timing! I’ll check it out in more detail later.
11 er:k // Nov 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I’m currently using insipid (on self-hosting), and it works great, simple with no ‘web2′ features (no javascript for example) as you want.
It seems to also exists http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/semanticscuttle/.
12 Mark A Hershberger // Nov 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Also Rubric (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rubric/) which I have running GotNoBlog.com
13 Igor // Nov 26, 2008 at 10:16 am
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ is simply great.
14 seanh // Nov 27, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’d be interested to hear what you settle in. I did the same search some time ago but couldn’t find anything that meets your criteria. I settled on simpy.com. The source isn’t available as far as I know. But it’s free as in beer, independent, has an api, and is a nice, no-nonsense social bookmarking site. (Looks ugly though.)
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