Robby on Rails: Collaborative Bookmarking... UNLEASHEDthoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect tag:www.robbyonrails.com,2005:TypoTypo2007-08-21T22:29:57-04:00Robby Russellurn:uuid:32d11d37-1355-45f6-8512-fe60a5d0a4642007-08-21T22:26:00-04:002007-08-21T22:29:57-04:00Collaborative Bookmarking... UNLEASHED<p>Like many… I’ve been using del.icio.us for several years and so have some of my closest colleagues. A few of us at <a href="http://planetargon.com"><span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span></a> have been using the <code>for:username</code> tag to send each other links, which has been a great productivity hack as we don’t need to copy URLs and paste them into emails, IMs, or <span class="caps">IRC</span> channel windows anymore. One of the things that del.icio.us doesn’t have a totally perfect implementation is sending to a group. There are people in your network, but to my knowledge, there isn’t a way to send everyone in a network the same link without selecting everyone individually. This was adding more time to the process of saving a link for ourselves and our fellow team members. So, we came up with a clever hack… a new delicious user account.</p>
<p>Over the past four months, our team has bookmarked almost <strong>four hundred</strong> links on topics ranging from Rails plugins, Interaction Design, Business processes, cool new web applications, to any variety of things that we find relevant to our team.</p>
<p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/delicious-tags-20070821-202107.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>So, all of the links are being sent to a fake user. How do we see the links for that user without having to logout of our current user and into the planetargon account? Well, what we’ve done is take the delicious <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed and pipe it through <a href="http://feedburner.com">feedburner</a> and given everyone the <span class="caps">URL</span> that feedburner provides. Now, we’re all able to subscribe to the same feed and check out links when each of us has time for it.</p>
<p>...and this is what I get to see show up in my <span class="caps">RSS</span> reader. :-)</p>
<p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/palinks-20070821-202935.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>How is your team managing bookmarks? :-)</p><p>Like many… I’ve been using del.icio.us for several years and so have some of my closest colleagues. A few of us at <a href="http://planetargon.com"><span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span></a> have been using the <code>for:username</code> tag to send each other links, which has been a great productivity hack as we don’t need to copy URLs and paste them into emails, IMs, or <span class="caps">IRC</span> channel windows anymore. One of the things that del.icio.us doesn’t have a totally perfect implementation is sending to a group. There are people in your network, but to my knowledge, there isn’t a way to send everyone in a network the same link without selecting everyone individually. This was adding more time to the process of saving a link for ourselves and our fellow team members. So, we came up with a clever hack… a new delicious user account.</p>
<p>Over the past four months, our team has bookmarked almost <strong>four hundred</strong> links on topics ranging from Rails plugins, Interaction Design, Business processes, cool new web applications, to any variety of things that we find relevant to our team.</p>
<p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/delicious-tags-20070821-202107.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>So, all of the links are being sent to a fake user. How do we see the links for that user without having to logout of our current user and into the planetargon account? Well, what we’ve done is take the delicious <span class="caps">RSS</span> feed and pipe it through <a href="http://feedburner.com">feedburner</a> and given everyone the <span class="caps">URL</span> that feedburner provides. Now, we’re all able to subscribe to the same feed and check out links when each of us has time for it.</p>
<p>...and this is what I get to see show up in my <span class="caps">RSS</span> reader. :-)</p>
<p><img src="http://myskitch.com/robbyrussell/palinks-20070821-202935.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>How is your team managing bookmarks? :-)</p>