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Cory Omand: "For quite some time, I've wanted to publish my large list of bookmarks on the web. The primary reason is to give me a map of information to use when I am not near a browser with my bookmarks. Another reason is to let others benefit from the time I've spent gathering and organizing these links. I could just upload my Netscape bookmarks.html file, as it is just HTML, but there are issues."
Cory shows how to use HTMLTidy, Perl, and XPath to parse his bookmarks.html file, filter out entries from internal corporate domains, and generate stuff. Well, he doesn't actually show how to generate anything yet, but he is ready to generate just about anything. For example, he could generate OPML and then import bookmarks into Roller 0.9.9 (coming soon) for display as I do here. Or, he could write the additional code necessary to check each bookmarked link for an RSS feed, using RSS autodiscovery, and then write the links to those RSS feeds to OPML format for import into his favorite newsfeed reader.
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Check out http://furl.net , solved my problem. I'm not affiliated with them.

Posted by Stephan on September 29, 2004 at 03:14 PM EDT #

That is a good point. Cory could also automatically post his bookmarks to a "social bookmark manager" site such as del.icio.us or furl.net using a web services API.

Posted by Dave Johnson on September 29, 2004 at 04:03 PM EDT #

beat me to it, but wanted to second del.icio.us here. i use it extensively now, and the value beyond having my bookmarks on the network is the collaborative/sharing elements. it's great to see what the groupmind collects when doing research.

Posted by Stephen O'Grady on September 30, 2004 at 06:42 PM EDT #

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