Category: internet

After my last post on bookmark managers, I set up a Spurl account. I uploaded my bookmarks from my Mac and my PC, but they never appeared in the account. Apparently, they were having some problems with the upload process that day. I uploaded the Mac bookmarks again last night, and they did show up today. I spent some time playing around, and I do like the interface. One of the nice things is that you can organize your bookmarks into folders and tag them. (I think most of the other managers just use tags, no folders.)

This guy’s blog has some stuff about bookmark managers, too, including a link to one service I hadn’t seem before, BlinkList.

The best thing at DigitalLife was the giant Robosapien. There’s a good pic at Engadget.

Since I’m now switching back and forth between IE, Opera, Firefox, and Safari on three computers at home and one at work (one Mac, the rest PCs), I’m starting to think about bookmark management and synchronization. Here are some links:

• This page has a pretty big list of bookmark managers.
• Bookmark Buddy: Windows software. $30. Looks like it’ll import and export from IE, Firefox, and Opera. (Not an online service.)
• Sync2It: This one’s got Windows and Mac client software, which apparently syncs your bookmarks to their web site. Besides supporting IE, Firefox, and Opera on the PC, it looks like it supports Safari on the Mac, which is nice. The price varies from free to $25/year, depending on what you’re doing.
• Powermarks: Windows software. $25. Looks like it suppors IE and Opera, with Firefox support in beta. Online sync.
• del.icio.us: Very popular online “social bookmarking” site. Free. There are some cool things about it, but you have to dig if you want to figure out how to import/export bookmarks from your machine(s). Looks like you could do a lot with the API, and maybe a bit of Python coding.
• Spurl is also a social bookmarking site. It claims to support IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari on Windows and Mac.
• This guy has some stuff to say about the differences between Furl, Spurl, and del.icio.us.

I think I’m most interested in Spurl right now, but I haven’t tried any of these yet.

I’ve actually made some progress this week in integrating Google Maps into our company’s intranet site. Fun stuff, but kind of frustrating at times.

Essential Resources for Google Maps — examples of some things that people have done with Google Maps.

My Flickr photos can now be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyhuey/. I still don’t have much there, but the “andyhuey” address is much nicer than the old “15415177@N00” thing.

Horror stories about AOL cancellations. Nasty stuff. Best to just stay away from them.

I set up a Flickr account for myself a few days ago. My pictures shoud be here. All I’ve uploaded so far are my Gates pictures.

www.streamload.com — looks interesting. I need to look at this more closely at some point.