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yacht_boy
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 Posted - 01/04/2005 : 11:10:21 PM
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This isn't really a music site, but this was the closest forum I could find.
I was looking around for a web-based bookmark manager, and have also been looking for a decent web-based RSS aggregator. Found them both in the same spot. It's called wURLdBook (www.wurldbook.com)and it's pretty amazing. It bills itself as "personal information intelligence," and it lives up to the name. It combines favorites/bookmarks and RSS feeds into one searchable archive. Bookmarks are known as "web references" and items are stored in "dossiers" instead of folders. It's all java-based, and it works very well, despite some clunkiness in the UI. The site claims to work with any flavor of RSS/Atom/XML, although I haven't tried all of them yet.
With wURLdBook, you can import favorites from your browser, tag web references with multiple "labels" (similar to gmail) instead of/in addition to storing them hierarchically in dossiers, and relate dossiers to each other.
You can search dossiers, search labels, or search the web from the search bar, from a java bookmarklet in your toolbar, or in firefox with an extension to the search bar.
You can choose to make dossiers and/or labels public, and allow other users to view your publicly accessible dossiers/labels either through a portal on the main site or via a dedicated link. You can also share public dossiers and labels easily with other members, although there isn't yet the capability to search for those other members. Furthermore, you can publish both dossiers and web labels as RSS feeds of your own. Want to let your friends know what music you've found online recently? Start your own music feed, easily!
You can save quite a bit of metadata with every web reference. For example, say you saw a story online somewhere at a news service. Instead of worrying about linkrot, just cut-and-paste the text of the story into metadata and you have a permanent copy. Not quite furl, but close, and furl-like capabilities may be added if enough users request them. Furthermore, if an item in an RSS feed seems worth copying, just click the "save" button below it and it's saved as a web reference.
Also potentially coming soon is the ability to upload files to the wURLdBook server, so that you can access them from any web-enabled computer. Tied to the existing "thumbtack" feature which allows users to attach a pointer to an mp3, pdf, etc, to a web reference, this could be an amazingly powerful feature.
In essence, this one site has the potential to be your repository for all your most useful info-RSS Feeds, web references, and, coming soon (hopefully) files that you want immediate access to at any time. Pretty powerful stuff!
The site just went live in September, and only has about 400 users. There are still some bugs, and there are plenty of spots for improvement, especially in the UI. But anyone who's reading this particular forum should be technically savvy enough to not only figure it out but to immediately grasp its usefulness.
The developer, Olav Andersen, is incredibly responsive to requests for new functions or bug reports, and is looking for more Windows users with a variety of platforms and browsers to help him iron out things out.
By the way, it's FREE, although donations are accepted. And I'm not affiliated with it at all, except that I'm a satisfied user who wants it to succeed because it's fast becoming an indispensible part of my everyday computing.
Thanks-
Yacht_boy |
Edited by - yacht_boy on 01/05/2005 07:47:01 AM
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