I'm looking for a full featured bookmarking service

June 4, 2007 10:54 AM

I'm looking for a full featured bookmarking service

I am currently looking for a bookmarking service that will help me aggregate articles and blogposts that I think would be relevant to my clients. It would basically be a service which will allow me to post links and add a description of my own with a separate homepage that aggregates all the posts and display them in one page so clients can visit the page and read the posts. (Something similar to Tumblr but with more features)

Here are the features that I’m looking for:
Tagging – I want to be able to divide articles into separate categories
Exporting to email – There will probably be quite a few people that will not be visiting the homepage so it is important to have exporting to email ability
Customized pages – Since not all posts are relevant to all of the clients, I would like to be able to customized pages for each client and pick out and display posts that are relevant to them.
Multimedia linking – linking of pictures, audio, and video.

Thank you so much!

posted by herbiehancock00 to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Well, del.icio.us is an obvious start. Out of the box, it meets most of your feature requests other than customization. But there's a del.icio.us API available that can probably let you achieve the customization features you're looking for.

Not an all-in-one solution, but as I mentioned, the most obvious first thing to try.
posted by melorama at 11:32 AM on June 4, 2007

You might make your selection easier if you combine customized pages and tagging. Most blog-type software will let you retrieve a set of posts based on tag. Using that you can have a rewrite rule that turned customer.site.com into site.com/?tag=customer
posted by phearlez at 11:55 AM on June 4, 2007

Del.icio.us is the great granddaddy of these, though I don't think they'll do the multimedia presentation you're looking for. Perhaps Ma.gnolia, or one of the newer ones that pull out thumbnails and the like?

I think the e-mail integration is the odd feature out. I use half a dozen social bookmark services (can't decide which one to settle on just yet!), but haven't seen email pushed very hard.

Still, the best social bookmarking services give you an RSS feed both for all your bookmarks as well as for each of your tags. I presume you could mix that feed with an RSS-to-email notification service. Run 'em through Feedburner, or FeedBlitz, or something similar as a test, and see what the resulting e-mail is like. Hopefully the multimedia elements will be presented somehow.

Another option: There are del.icio.us tools that grab up all your links of the day and post them to your blog. Your blog could also have an e-mail notification system. So you'd get your links out by e-mail as well as have them neatly collected on the web. Not sure how tag differentiation would happen in this scenario, though.
posted by pzarquon at 12:11 PM on June 4, 2007

sounds like a blog to me. add client-specific tagging and a daily/weekly email notification component and you're gold.
posted by rhizome at 12:29 PM on June 4, 2007

Furl allows people to subscribe to your list of links and can send them a daily email about it. Unfortunately they have to sign up for Furl too to receive the email. This is my archive, and this is my archive of just Ask Metafilter. Furl calls "tags" topics.
posted by ALongDecember at 12:58 PM on June 4, 2007

Oh cool, you can add non-furl subscribers manually and even select the topics they receive!
posted by ALongDecember at 1:01 PM on June 4, 2007

What you want is a blog. Movable Type (n.b. I work with the team that makes it) has tags and emailing of posts and media publishing and custom templating built in. It also lets you run an unlimited number of blogs, so you could do one blog for each of your clients. Email me if I can help you get set up.
posted by anildash at 1:44 PM on June 4, 2007