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== Store bookmarks on a server (aka Remote bookmarks, online bookmarks) ==
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.


Because I regularly use Firefox from four different computers, I'd love to store all of my bookmarks on a server.  This could be extended to storing configuration data on a server, particularly which plugins I'm using and how they're configured. It's a nuisance to have to enter bookmarks and install plugins four times over!
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.


Of course some configuration information still needs to be machine specific (local proxy settings, etc).
Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.


Which server to use ?  It'd be nice to use a light weight protocol so that almost anyone could easily set up a suitable server.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
 
[http://www.widecircles.com Social Bookmarking]
Which protocol ?  It's not my area, but I'd guess https would be fine for reading bookmarks from a server. For uploading, ftp ?  I don't know, it's not my area.
 
Security ? Of course security would be required, to allow people to keep their bookmarks and configuration private.

Latest revision as of 06:54, 10 December 2008

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. Social Bookmarking

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