Saturday, May 28th, 2005, 7:36 am
Del.icio.us Import and Export
Filed under: Gentle Introduction to Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is a fast-growing social bookmarks network. It enables people to centralise their bookmarks (favourites) on-line, share them with others, and even view bookmarks of people whose interests intersect. This also provides insight into the popularity of links.
Each bookmark in Del.icio.us can be delivered as an RSS feed, which can then be added to the native browser as a live bookmark, i.e. a dynamic bookmark whose source is remote. Bookmarks as such are still significantly slower than a personal portal.
An example of a del.icio.us bookmark
Import/Export in Del.icio.us
Here is one major pitfall: Del.icio.us do not yet incorporate import and export facilities, which is surprising. This has two implications:
- All bookmarks are dependent upon a remote source, namely del.icio.us. They may not always be available and there is a vendor lock-in situation.
- Assemblage of bookmarks must begin from scratch, with little or no chance for re-use.
There are third-party solutions, but they are not ideal:
- tagSense.net – a Windows del.icio.us client which can import bookmarks fully.
- Netscape-style import script – a perl script which imports Netscape-style bookmark files into del.icio.us
- delicious2safari – import tool which brings del.icio.us to Safari.
August 16th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Del.icio.us now has a function for exporting bookmarks in browser bookmark format. Goto http://del.icio.us/settings/your-username/export and enjoy!
April 29th, 2006 at 7:01 am
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