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• Publish to RSS (del.icio.us-like service)
• Update Checking
• Auto-categorization (?)
• much, much more.

Comments jasonlustig

I like the idea of "shared bookmarks/links", we should also have the ability to share them over a LAN using Apple's Rendezvous. That way, for example, when going to my friends' computers to show them something i can just pull it up in their view of "Jason's Shared Bookmarks" or something, similar to itunes' shared music.

Comments Jesse

I love del.icio.us. I use it much more effectively than I ever used bookmarks, but I'm not sure why. It might be because del.icio.us uses labels instead of folders. It might be because my del.icio.us bookmarks are public, which forces me to put enough effort into the categorization and description that it still makes sense to me a month later.

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2004/10/towards_tagbased_bookmark_management_in_web_browsers.shtml argues for tags/labels in bookmarks.

Comments Torisugari

> Auto-categorization (?)

• Picking up some words from <meta name="keywords"> tag. e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/ keywords are "web browser", "mozilla", "firefox", "camino", "thunderbird", "bugzilla", "user agent" and "email client".
• From user input while bookmarking (asking for a keyword?)
• Creating some filter a la mail filter. e.g. Has the words:|car| append "Cars" label.
• Bayesian filter? http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/spam/ This is really exciting, but maybe too geeky for some.

Comments Bugmenot

• Also, the sidebar needs to be enhanced to be able to either float on top of the content (instead of resizing the content area) or to extend outward instead of inward.

Comments AlexBishop

Aurora, is that you?

Comments BenS

To get people who don't use bookmarks much to use them a bit more:

• Following on from Torisugari, how about detecting which sites someone uses often and automatically bookmarking them? This would be a bit like the sutocomplete in the address bar, but would place buttons on the bookmarks bar. User-selectable number of sites.
• Automatically bookmark sites which you login to, and esp. bookmark the login page (or its referrer). Clearly if you're logging into a site, then you've got some kind of commitment/interest in it.

Comments wildman

Like these ideas and a few more... Once upon a time I was a heavy user of Netscape SmartMarks which had some very nice features mainly, because it stored bookmarks in a database and could search fast, scan for dupes, monitor changes and update descriptions or "bulletins". It had some built in sorting functions and also let you export a folder as a flat file that your could share, email, or import into NS/IE. SmartMarks wasn't perfect, you had to backup their dbase "catalogs" often and offline (dbase corruption=disaster), but some of the features would be nice in FF-Places. First Floor was bought out, and new owner likely burried the code. Would've been nice if they opened it or donated it to Mozilla.org

• Small Dbase Engine
• Fast Search
• Advanced Sorting
• Agent ability to monitor sites bulletins or get RSS header
• Export/Import Individual Folders suitable for email, IE, scripting or publishing to dmoz/delicious.
• Automatically Name Pages that have empty/bogus Title Tags!