photo 04 Mar 2005 09:57 am
del.icio.us
del.icio.us
I just signed up for this. I had thought about writing software to do this for me, but why bother if it already exists? Although I guess I tried rewriting the book when I wrote my blogging software, but that was largely a learning exercise. But the del.icio.us looks neat. Although I’m not really interested in the social aspect of it. At least not yet. I really just wanted a nice way to manage bookmarks between computers. There are a lot of things I like to manage between computers. I’d like to have one nice interface to all of them. Like an online computer with an OS that I use through a browser. With built in file sharing/link sharing/email checking.
Another idea that I like is something that allows you to exert your online influence in many ways at once. Something that could let you post to a few message boards at one time. Or a few message boards and a blog. Or two. Eventually, it could parse comments and replies and bring those to you as well. I suppose it would be some sort of meta-social-web program. I have thought about writing software that would do that just for ubb et al. There were a lot of times where I wanted to post the same thing to a couple of different places and not have to check each one. Perhaps it could be sort of like an rss aggregator for forums. You’d have to define a custom module for each different type of forum software you wanted to post to/scrape from, though.