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Who wants to build an open social bookmarking service?

January 11, 2011 in Ideas and musings, Open Data

The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

As you may well have heard, in December there were rumours that the Delicious social bookmarking service may be discontinued. This has caused a flurry of activity in the online world to back up bookmarks and to look for alternative similar services.

Hence we’ve started a page for a new social bookmarking web service which would be 100% open, so that anyone could use the code or the data for any purpose:

Would you like to work on this? Would you support it? Do you think it is a good idea? Do you know of similar initiatives that are out there already or underway? Got a better idea? If you have any ideas, suggestions or links, or if you’d like to volunteer to help build such a service, we’d be grateful if you could drop a note on the idea page via the link above!

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  • http://lackoftalent.org/michael/ Mike G.

    There’s a related effort called unalog:

    http://unalog.com/about/

    Source code is on bitbucket:

    https://bitbucket.org/dchud/unalog2/src

    Unalog originated in the library tech community a number of years ago, and now would seem like a great time to collaborate on it.

  • http://alexrollin.com Alex Rollin

    http://301works.org is affiliated with archive.org, the Internet Archive and home of the wayback machine.

    One way to do this might be to extend unalog (if necessary) to comply with 301works requirements, and then to start a cooperative to own and manage the new enterprise.

    http://www.archive.org/details/301works

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