New review of bookmark tools:

  • del.icio.us – I can see the good things about it, but the interface is clumsy and I don’t really care about the social software aspect of it. still very alpha, no organization (see REST api
  • Between Book Pages (BBPS) – pretty minimal
  • ol’bookmarks – mature, but fat rendering
  • online-bookmarks – YABS
  • PHP Bookmarks – simple listings, has separate admin/browse views
  • SiteBar – very feature rich, has DHTML tree view (not dynamically loading)
  • Tasks – it’s not bookmarking software, but has nice features that could be applicable when designing a bookmarking system
  • b. – collaborative bookmarking w/ some interesting features/ideas; nice looking also, but clumsy interface, very shoestringy (flat files/cgi)
  • Booby – nicely done, has import/export, also has contacts, todo, notes and news (RSS), but is a big slow fat interface
  • Bookmark4U – lots of features, not sure how many are useful, refresh too annoying to take closer look
  • Bookmarker – this is the OG. Err, it hasn’t really been updated for the past 3 years though

Desired Features:

  • Mozilla Integration
  • Multiple Bookmark lists
  • Multiple Sorts, Filtering, Fuzzy Searches
  • Faceted Navigation
  • DHTML/XUL interface, remote scripting
  • Ability to handle duplicates
  • Rating/data collection
  • Metadata storage, Caching (what is an ‘url’ object model composed of?)
  • Import/Export single links, RSS, XBEL
  • Eventual Browser History integration
  • Eventual KB/Wiki integration
  • Bonus: Multi-user/group, fine grained access control
  • Bonus: locally caching?

I’ll give SiteBar and Bookmark4U a try, but I have a feeling that I’ll probably not like either enough to stick w/ them.