Buzzsonic.com

March 5th, 2007

The Yahoo owned bookmarking service del.icio.us (also reachable simply by typing the URL delicious.com!) is easily the most popular of many, many similar services. I bookmark hundreds of websites weekly so I try and upload them by exporting from my browser and importing them into del.icio.us.

Uploading is relatively painless for me from Firefox. Bookmarks>Organize>File>Export>Bookmarks, go to your Delicious page and upload.

The most annoying thing about the del.cio.us service is that by default, sharing is actually turned off when you import your bookmarks which means that you have to turn on sharing individually for each bookmark you want to share. Bizarre and annoying and with over 500+ bookmarks just uploaded by me its just not happening.

Luckily some wag has has come up with a handy ‘work-around’ script which I used succesfully to change the settings on over 600 links yesterday.

Greg at Freshblog has wrote the awesome javascript that goes through and automatically changes all your bookmarks to “share”. Copy and paste the code (from the above link) into the address bar of your browser when you have loaded the appropriate delicious page. Hit enter, bosh! An alert box will pop up telling you how many posts are on the page and off it goes automatically turning the “not shared” setting off. Brilliant.

Found at Freshblogs