Comments on: More private alternatives to del.icio.us

Question: More private alternatives to del.icio.us

dripdripdrop — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:27:32 -0800

More private alternatives to del.icio.us for social bookmarking within our company?

We would like to use del.icio.us within our company to share bookmarks relating to industry news, best-practices, competitor activity and the occasional funny site. We'd like to be able to summarize the link, but by using del.icio.us they would have to be very generic, as we don't want to do our competitor's work for them.

Is there a more private social bookmarking site that we could use that would be password protected but still have the wonderful del.icio.us features outlined below?

Required del.icio.us traits:
- Tag bookmarks
- Get RSS feeds for the entire account and specific tags
- Easy bookmarking via a browser button or similar
- Multiple people can bookmark and view (but controlled, we're fine with sharing an account/password)

By: designbot

designbot — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:35:53 -0800

Sounds like you're looking for ma.gnolia.

By: designbot

designbot — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:38:56 -0800

Specifically, you could make a private group for the people in your office, and do exactly what you're talking about.

By: subclub

subclub — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:41:11 -0800

You could just run a blog on your local network (Wordpress can handle everything on your list.) Authors could use a bookmarklet to easily post new links to the blog. Also, everyone at your company would be able to comment on links.

By: designbot

designbot — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:41:27 -0800

(Also, del.icio.us now allows you to set bookmarks as private, if you just want to share an account.)

By: jjg

jjg — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:40:16 -0800

You could install your own copy of Rubric on a company server. It provides pretty much the same functionality as del.icio.us.

By: lhl

lhl — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:53:43 -0800

Yahoo's other social bookmarking app, MyWeb provides semi-private bookmarking by groups, but might be weak on the RSS (Ma.gnolia might be better).

Scuttle is an open source project similar to Rubric but PHP-based and supports most of the del.icio.us API to boot (good for import/export and customization).

By: badlydubbedboy

badlydubbedboy — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:20:55 -0800

netvouz.com will do all the above

By: anildash

anildash — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:43:17 -0800

we've used rubric at work for some time, it works pretty nicely.