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I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

dryicerx wrote: post #29

This looks like a useful service, but just wanted to point out that having a JS embedded button might not be the best way of going about it, or at least in it's current form with the historious_key as the only means of authentication. If a site is expecting historious users, it can have a simple javascript polling loop that wait until the historious bookmark is activated to jack the key.

Hmm, thank you for pointing that vulnerability out... Do you mind contacting us at support at historious to discuss?

Also, there is a Chrome extension available and we will be writing more as time progresses (sadly there are more important issues to address).

Thank you very much!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#32

Post by capt_rubba »

I'm using Delicious and perhaps I'm missing something, what do you guys do differently? I use Gnome search extension to search my Delicious history and have a FF plugin to bookmark pages: what am I missing?

I'm sure there' something unique about your service, I'd highlight it more right there on the front page, specifically for Delicious users, since it's proven that they like this type of service and you need to concentrate on converting them.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#33

Post by pvg »

StavrosK wrote: post #28
waxpancake wrote: post #11

Pinboard's a pretty amazing Delicious alternative. One-time signup fee of $6, but very much worth it. http://pinboard.in/

historious is an optional $5, so we have that beat!

Well, our del.icio.us importer (among others) actually works so we've got that. Either way, welcome to the fray!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

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Post by StavrosK »

pvg wrote: post #33
StavrosK wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

historious is an optional $5, so we have that beat!

Well, our del.icio.us importer (among others) actually works so we've got that. Either way, welcome to the fray!

Haha, now we will work double-time to get that working! Thanks, good luck to you too!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#35

Post by yosho »

can you add a tiny search bar on the browser? or at least have it be an option? I don't like visiting the site every time i want to search my bookmarks, also, it would also be nice having a way to remove the bookmarks once i've added it. Especially for articles I've read and don't care to read again.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#36

Post by StavrosK »

yosho wrote: post #35

can you add a tiny search bar on the browser? or at least have it be an option? I don't like visiting the site every time i want to search my bookmarks, also, it would also be nice having a way to remove the bookmarks once i've added it. Especially for articles I've read and don't care to read again.

You can right-click in the search bar and create a browser search for it, and then you can use your browser search as normal. To remove the bookmarks, just click the "remove" link next to them.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#37

Post by erikpukinskis »

I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on.

For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements?

Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYTHING we do in the browser, but not explicitly stating the limits on it.

That said, if you're indexing EVERYTHING I browse to, I think this is actually a really killer app. An app with some insane privacy challenges, but a killer one nonetheless. If you're only indexing the stuff I bookmark, that's pretty cool, and a good step forward, but less exciting to me.

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#38

Post by stavros »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #37

I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on. For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements? Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYT…

Hello, and thanks for your feedback!

We're sorry to be less exciting, but we do indeed only index the historified sites, otherwise the noise would be too much for historious to be of any usefulness. Luckily the cost of bookmarking a page is really low (just one click), so you can do it as often as you like!

The extension is open source, you can download and run it yourself if you don't trust the packaged one:

http://bitbucket.org/Stavros/historious.crx

Thanks!

Re: I created a bookmarking service you can love.

#39

Post by edanm »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #37

I signed up, but didn't install the Chrome extension. I think you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is going on. For example, if I install the Chrome extension, and then visit my banking site, are you indexing my bank statements? Do you only index pages we click Historify on? The answer to that question ought to be in the privacy policy. You're asking us to install an extension and give you access to EVERYT…

I didn't think about the "indexing everything" from what they said. But now that you mention it, it does sound like a great app.

You could have an extension that indexes everything the user goes to. The trick would be making it usable; I almost never use the "history" in my browser, because it tends to never find what I'm looking for. But if you try and solve it in a centralized way, you could do several interesting things:

* Make searches across all the sites you visited work better, maybe by creating better indexes of the content.

* Make the search work according to sites you visited the most (e.g. I'd prefer the search to find comments on HN before other things, then articles linked to from HN, etc.).

Such a service might be pretty useful: browser history that doesn't suck, and is persistent and accessible online. Anyone want to build it?

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