Moving to shared value - bookmarks

 09 10 19

I posted earlier on the power of shares (outsourced) bookmark repositories.

At Muldis, we've got Sharepoint. I also use del.icio.us. I no longer use tools myself to keep things synched over multiple PC's / browsers.

I just wanted to point out that since late 2009, Chrome (Google's browser, the hottest techy browser out there) also syncs.

 

How to manage all bookmarks multi-system and browser once and for all - free.

 09 05 06

If you're like me, you're on (many) different computers all the time, using multiple browsers, often searching for solutions that are already on the internet (no need to re-invent the wheel). You'd love to have all these bookmarks accessible and searchable. Also, if you're an organisation that would like have all user's bookmark in a central repository, you could use this method as well.

"I know I saw that somewhere, even bookmarked it, but where was it again...?"

Today I decided to do something about this. So can you. How? 

  1. Pick an online, searchable, bookmark repository that allows tagging AND private bookmarks AND bulk upload. I chose del.icio.us .
  2. Optionally, but with high convenience: Get Transmute. Transmute is a free bookmark converter / exporter. From your least-used browsers, export all your bookmarks to your most-used browser (if it supports a bulk output that your choice in step 1 supports). This will give you the side-benefit of having all your bookmarks in your most-used browser as well. (If you don't want an additional tool, you can just use the bulk exports of all browsers you use.)
  3. Run the bulk upload (to choice #1) of your bulk export (#2). If your choice at #1 offers a login that multiple users in your organisation know and can use, you can bulk-upload the bookmarks of multiple users and thus have a group wide bookmark repositry.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all systems you're on.
Happy centralized bookmarking!
 
Edit/Update: I was tipped about Xmarks just now. Seems a good tool as well, but as I use Chrome and Opera (desktop and mobile) a lot, I'd have to wait until those browsers are in their scope. 


 

Post pushing (the one about RxLib)

 09 04 08

So the day 3 31-DBBB task is to post push. I chose the post below.

I pushed out to technorati, digg and del.icio.us. I searched for forums and discussion groups and made sure to add this. As this is about a legacy issue and most initiatives seem to have died, this is becoming obscure tech, so I did not feel I was troubling anyone with this: it better to know and spread this information now, because this solution will be covered in dust. At least this is a relatively fresh breeze.

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