1: I couldn't stand moving from computer to computer and having to look up
2: different bookmarks. I wanted to be able to search my bookmarks and have
3: bookmarks I never used moved out of my way. I wanted to share my bookmarks
4: with someone. And I wanted total integration with the browser, so I didn't
5: have to go through a web interface or a specific bookmarking program.
6:
7: <p> Bookie is a project born of an itch to make collaborative bookmarking a
8: reality. It was partly conceived out of <a
9: href="http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/ui/199805/bookmarks.html">good
10: bookmarking</a> and <a
11: href="http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/misc/199805/collaborative-bookmark-index.html">collaborative
12: bookmark indexing</a>.
13:
14: <p>The server is written in Java which sends bookmark information over a
15: protocol to the client. The server is written and can get bookmarks and
16: folders to the client in RDF format.
17:
18: <p> An integration to Mozilla is halfway done. There is also a debugging
19: client written in Swing.
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