Spammers' sense of humor
Look at the subject of this email I've received:
P.S.: I've finally caught a fleeting bug that caused random 500 error in Smarking, now it should work smoothly. I'm working on several new features, stay tuned ;-)
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Look at the subject of this email I've received:
P.S.: I've finally caught a fleeting bug that caused random 500 error in Smarking, now it should work smoothly. I'm working on several new features, stay tuned ;-)
Published the 0.8.10 version. Changelog:
Finally, a security fix: I found some bookmarks with username and password in the address (such as http://username:password@domain.com/), probably imported from Firefox or other browsers. I manually set them as Hidden, because they was available to any Smarking visitor, and now all imported bookmarks with username and password are saved as Hidden. In addition, the user gets a warning message if he tries to add such a bookmark without marking it as Hidden.
Published the 0.8.9 version. Changelog:
I hope that the new trackback feature will not be considered SPAM. I've thinked several times to the question and I believe that it will be appreciated by bloggers, because they can see how people rate their post, which tags are associated, and the comments of Smarking users about it.
Please contact us at info (at) smarking (dot) com if you have any thoughts about :-)
There are tons of Social Bookmarking services on the net, they need to import from several sources (other SB services, standard browser bookmark files, ...) and to export in some format; AFAIK every SB developer should reinvent the wheel, with the result that there is not a standard that promote interoperability.
My idea is to cooperate with other SB developers in order to define an open, shared Bookmarks Interchange Format - maybe inspired on XBEL or xFolk microformat. I've sent the following email to various SB services, hoping that they could join the project. If I've forgot somebody, please tell me and I'll contact him.
Contacted (random order): Blinklist, Blogmarks, Connotea, Delicious, Delirious, Digg, FeedMeLinks (accepted, thanks John), Furl, linkaGoGo, ma.gnolia, netvouz, RawSugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, Listible, StumbleUpon, My Web, WatVindenWijOver, Clipmarks, Browsr, 30DaysTags, GetBoo, Segnalo, zurpy, Filangy, BlogMemes, FeedMarker, Menéame, Jots, openBM, CrispyNews, BookKit, dogear, peoplefeeds, SiteTagger, Diigo, Lilisto, BMAccess, Maple, Tagsy, Linkologia, Meme-Stream, Linkroll, Lookmarks, taghop, Socializer
Sent message:
Hello,
I'm the developer of http://smarking.com/ , a young social bookmarking
service I opened some weeks ago; I've sent this email to all SB (Social
Bookmarking) service's developers I could find.At the moment all SB services use their own format to export the user's data
(or don't have that feature at all), and it's a pain to move data from a
service to another, or to convert to/from ordinary browser formats. It's a
pity both for SB developers and for SB users.I think that users own their data, and SB developers should adopt a common
format to import and export that data in order to* Let the user choose the best service for his needs
* Backup his data in an open format
* Convert his data from a file format to another
* Promote applications that read/write in that formatIn short, this email is to invite you to partecipate in the creation of a
Bookmarks Interchange Format; my idea is to work with as many SB developers
as possibile via mailing list / Google groups / wiki / whatever to create
such format, presumably XML based (of course we can talk about that and all
other aspects, the result have to satisfy all developers).If we will succeed we could use this new format to import/export user's
data; moreover, we (or others) could write and publish some libraries that
read/write such format in order to build on that some software that convert
to/from various browser's formats (but that's another story, we'd first
arrange a format that makes all happy).Please let me know if you're interested to join this working group :)
Cheers
We've just published the new 0.8.8 version of Smarking; changes:
We've finally announced Smarking to the world... Well, at least to Italian people ;-)
We're collecting user's opinions, to work on the most wanted features... So, we've fixed some bugs and backported them to current published version (0.8.7):
At the moment we're working to show all user's tags and to let him rename/delete them.
Some users don't see the differences between Smarking and del.icio.us (or similars), so I wrote a brief list of Smarking features (as for all wiki articles on http://tracker.smarking.com/wiki you can update it, after login).
All articles about Smarking are added and tagged with 'smarking' (brilliant and innovative solution, uh? ;-) )
If you have suggestions about Smarking, or simply want to talk with developers, please contact me.
Stay tuned! :-)
Published the 0.8.7 version. Changelog:
We've opened a Trac-based wiki & ticket manager on http://tracker.smarking.com/. Every registered user on Smarking will automatically have an account there.
Published the 0.8.5 version:
We've improved the "check for updates" features, now for every updated document you can see the differences since the last check; have a look at http://smarking.com/diff/?bookmark=1516 for an example of diff report.
We're working to launch Smarking.com as soon as possible; we've some problems with the hosting provider, but we hope to solve them quickly.
Known problems:
Waiting to solve these problems, we've finished the italian translation: just select "Italian" in your preferences to see the entire site in italian.
Probably we'll start to support other languages in the next weeks - thanks sartoi user for his croatian translation proposal :)
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