[WEB4LIB] Re: Question about Lowend solutions for managing ur ls.

[Robin Zalben]

What about www.backflip.com?  It is free & web-based so anyone with a
password can share it.

Robin Zalben	
PC Specialist	
Alverno College
Milwaukee, WI
	



-----Original Message-----
From: rich at richardwiggins.com [mailto:rich at richardwiggins.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 8:05 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Question about Lowend solutions for managing
urls.


For a past project with an organized team of paid surfers, we implemented a
database, first under Sirsi, later re-implemented under ASP and Access.  In
both cases our surfers, who were paid to find sites, added or updated
entries via a Web interface.  I think a customized database is a good idea
if you have specific goals for these URLs and a formal protocol for
cataloging.

There are several cookie-cutter Web services that might let you do what you
want adequately:

Blink.com:  This is a tool to provide portability of bookmarks for a single
user, but you could probably use it in a small group.  You add bookmarks to
your Blink list using a pop-up or a sidebar.  A small group of people could
share an ID, or there are ways to send URLs to a common member.  

Intranets.com: This provides lots more than URL sharing, but it does provide
a links section.

Blogger.com: Here you'd share text in a "blog" and simply include the URLs.
Everything would be chronological, wouldn't give you database-style
manipulations.

If one of these works, or if you do something else, how about posting your
results?  It is a common enough problem.

/rich



On Mon, 25 June 2001, rstockman at afpnet.org wrote:

> 
> As we are surfing the web doing research we regularly run across urls we
> would like to save, sort and catalog both for a variety of uses including
> sharing among colleagues and posting to the web.  Any tips,suggestions,
> ideas that would be freeware,shareware or at least low cost would be
greatly
> appreciated.
> 

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