2005-04-19 New component net.nemein.bookmarks

One of my goals in the Midgard Workshop last weekend was to get my first Midcom component net.nemein.bookmarks ready and in cvs by the end of the weekend. As you might guess I managed to do it and n.n.bookmarks can be found in cvs. If you want to see it in action Bergie is running net.nemein.bookmarks at hes blog site.

The component it self is a lot like http://del.icio.us which is a social bookmark manager that allows you to share your bookmarks with other people. Actually the idea was to make it exactly the same so that it would easily be possible to sync bookmarks from n.n.bookmarks with http://del.icio.us.

Adding a new bookmark is very easy if you have dragged a bookmarklet from admin page to your browsers toolbar. Just surf around internet and when you find an interesting page just click "Post to net.nemein.bookmarks" from the browsers toolbar and you will be redirected to a page for entering some additional info like a tag(category) to the bookmark. After submiting you'll get redirected back to the page you just bookmarked.

I'm planing to make some new features to the component in the near future. One of them is an RSS feed of the latest bookmarks which shoulden't be a big deal and the secound one is to make the syncing with http://del.icio.us cron runnable so that you don't need to worry about doing it manualy. I'm also trying to find out if it's possible to sync bookmarks with Firefox.