Hyperlinkomatic
I’ve been trying out another bookmark storage service, which is currently in beta: Hyperlinkomatic. It has a great, slick interface, and a fast and flexible search engine to find what you want, which avoids that tricky problem of deciding what folder/category you’re going to put a bookmark in. It even has an option for specifying a date range for the creation of the bookmark when you search, which is brilliant for those of us who can’t remember anything salient about a bookmark, except that we stored it within the last week.
As with any online bookmark manager, there are big advantages to not having your precious links tied to any one browser or computer, and having them accessible from anywhere. At the moment, you can publish your links to a special page on their domain, but not on your own site. I’ve put in a feature request for an RSS feed of selected links, which would probably be the most flexible way to publish. There’s also a built-in method of sharing bookmarks with your friends (if you have any using the service), which is very neat. It would be difficult for people to abuse as they need to know your username to share with you. You can also block other users if they send you piles of dross.
All in all, it’s a pretty neat service, and seems to scale fairly well. I imported all my Safari bookmarks, and with 545 bookmarks, searches are still nearly instantaneous (well, as near as fairly slow broadband allows). Oh, and it’s also made in the UK. Which is nice.
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Sounds interesting, thanks for the review and heads-up.----- This is worth a look too: http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/
A plugin is available for Firefox:: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#booksync
Not really a management tool but solves the 'accessible from anywhere' problem.
by Neil @ 09/06/2004 10:06 pm • Permalink •
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How's it measure up to delicious?
by John Beeler @ 10/06/2004 4:06 am • Permalink •
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Neil: Yes, I've had a look at the xbel format before, and it's a great idea. As you sayâfor exchange rather than management.
John Beeler: Well, they have a different focus, so a comparison isn't really meaningful. delicious is primarily for sharing bookmarks, and the advantages of having thousands of people all tracking what they find interesting on the net makes for a good indicator of trends, and also a good source of new and interesting things that you might not otherwise have come across. So the sharing aspects are much slicker with delicious. Hyperlinkomatic, on the other hand, is much more oriented toward private use of bookmarks (though you can exchange selected ones with users, there's no automatic public display of links). Searching facilities are much more sophisticated, as are categories and management utilities. For example, you can choose to merge two categories if you realise that you've been a bit over-enthusiastic about the specificity of your taxonomy. There are also good import and export facilities (delicious can't import bookmarks as far as I am aware).
by bsag @ 10/06/2004 8:06 am • Permalink •
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What the heck, we've decided to throw all caution to the wind and make it a public beta, so feel free to signup if you want to.
We're still going to keep adding things, and after a night of finding out just how cool RSS is that's now way up there on the list.
http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com
Thanks for the write up bsag, most appreciated.
Enjoy
Angie
by Angie @ 10/06/2004 11:07 am • Permalink •
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angie how do I contact hyperlinkomatic.com ? both feedback@hyperlinkomatic.com and majordomo@hyperlinkomatic.com don;t work
by user @ 15/11/2007 5:54 pm • Permalink •
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hmm looks like that mail server is just getting too old and unhappy. I shall be moving it soon.
You can email me at angie@alphabox.net instead for now.
by Angie @ 17/11/2007 1:15 am • Permalink •
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