Mar 19 2006
private saving ryan
Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature. To try it out, go to “settings” and click on “private saving” to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page.
This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to discourage that, we will be watching how this feature impacts the community and will also be experimenting a bit with the UI over the next few weeks.
So if you’re one of those antisocial types who doesn’t like to share their toys, this one’s for you. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
Joshua Schachter · joshua Tags: features bookmark this
109 Comments
eddiewilliams | Mar 19 2006 at 2:43 am
Sweet! Now I’m just waiting for importing to work…
Björn Lindström | Mar 19 2006 at 3:24 am
In the interest of being able to quickly review your privately saved bookmarks and hopefully reconsider, how about a way to get a list of all of ones unshared bookmarks?
Razvan Antonescu | Mar 19 2006 at 3:59 am
del.icio.us is a great tool and I wished in a few cases to use it in my SEO work to keep track of link exchanges and potential linking partners. Those are the cases when I NEED those bookmarks to be private, the rest I am happy with sharing thing. So make it activate only on request (only for certain tags/bookmarks) and everything will be fine
Stephen | Mar 19 2006 at 5:33 am
I think it’s a great idea. Not that I’m anti-social but I’ll give you an example. I was helping a guy who sells Chlamydia home testing kits a few months back so I had to carry out a little research on the infection via the web. What better place to save my findings than my del.icio.us account (which I did) but there was always the worry that any friends/colleagues/potential clients etc etc who happens to browse my saved bookmarks got the wrong idea.
derek | Mar 19 2006 at 5:46 am
awesome news. this was what i’ve been waiting for. i diligently waited and ignored the likes of ma.gnolia et al in hopes that del.icio.us would acknowledge and support private bookmarks.
Iván | Mar 19 2006 at 6:11 am
Hi! Nice new feature this one about private saving. And making it off by default will not ruin the social aspect of del.icio.us (i hope so!).
Some ideas:
- I haven’t checked it, but do the tags related to the private bookmarks appear on the tag list on the right? (i mean, those which are not related with any public bookmark, of course).
- And something i see as necessary: the settings should have some option about how to show the bookmarks, not only by date of creation (and reversed!!!). The ones which I use more frequently are the oldest, and always appear at the bottom of the page. We can order the tags by alpha and by frequency… i guess we should be able to order the bookmarks by date (reversed or not) or by alpha (or even other ways, i don’t know)…
But hey, good work!!!
Bye!! (and i hope my english not to be very awful :S)
telefan | Mar 19 2006 at 6:55 am
You keep your promise. Thanks.
mustuffa | Mar 19 2006 at 11:27 am
hello ryan!
whether `private` attribute affects on `daily blog posting` behavior?
`private saving` is a useful feature in general.
it would be even more convinient if a `private` attribute could be applied not only to individual bookmarks, but to the whole tag itself, which would make private all bookmarks tagged with such tag; or even more better to the tag cloud, which would make private all the tags it include and hence all the bookmarks tagged by those tags.
thanks for you work.
regards,
/mustuffa
mamat | Mar 19 2006 at 11:35 am
nice! thx…
in terms of ui, i’d just like to comment that one of the (many) reasons i’ve sticked to using delicious rather than the many other similar services is that the ui is really easy to use and powerful. thanks to tab completion, posting is quite fast and easy compared to many other forms i’ve seen which require many clicks to post anything.
so my question is: why not use that powerful tag interface to deal with such options? with for example a System:private tag which could be easily entered with sp rather than having to go grab the mouse, aim at box, click, etc.
not that the ui has gotten so complicated with one extra-box but i also feel like many other features could be added in such a way (ex. a watchthatpage tag which would notify of page changes, an archive tag which would archive the page somewhere, etc).
DavidLee | Mar 19 2006 at 12:55 pm
I’m disappointed that it isn’t tag-based. I’ve not used del.icio.us for my business bookmarks because I’d rather not have them publically available. That said I figured that if certain tags could be marked private I could distribute links to that tag while people browing my top level would not see the privately tagged bookmarks. Perhaps tags like newsletter:private would work. Great to see enhancements, just not implemented in a way I’ll find useful quite yet.
joshua | Mar 19 2006 at 1:14 pm
eddiewilliams — import comes next; importing without privacy was way too irritating\
bjorn — good idea, will add it to the list
mustaffa — no, private items should not get posted to your blog
mamat — extending bjorn’s idea, we could have system:private or something make the posts be private as well
davidlee — so all someone would have to do is guess the name of your tag to see it? i don’t think that’s what people will expect. instead we’ll have a way to share with specific other people soon.
Piotr Banasik | Mar 19 2006 at 1:23 pm
Works great, altho I use firefox’s live bookmarks feature to get dropdown lists of bookmarks on tags. The rss feeds only poll public bookmarks …
Would it be possible to add an option for an authenticated rss feed which doesn’t hide private bookmarks?
Also I’ve found problems marking bookmarks as private, sometimes it wouldn’t “take”, it seemed to be related to editing bookmarks on a second and third page of a tag. It took trying a few times, and for the third page I ended up forcing it not to use the ajax editor and saving it that way.
David Chartier | Mar 19 2006 at 1:25 pm
I’m not sure about anyone else, but I think the request for privacy on some bookmarks comes out of the growing use of systems like del.icio.us as a main bookmarking utility; not just a forum for sharing certain bookmarks.
I frequently have to use multiple browser (and computers) throughout the day or week, and I’ve been pulling my hair out as some bookmarks are in one browser, while others are sitting somewhere else.
Now, with easy methods for posting to del.icio.us and - this is key - easy tools like Delibar that turn del.icio.us into a bookmarks menu on Mac OS X, I can keep all my bookmarks in del.icio.us and use them in any darn browser I please - or anywhere I am, including away from my personal machines.
Some of those bookmarks, however, are not for others to see. Some of them are private blog posts I or friends are working on, or possibly research for a project I don’t feel like sharing just yet. Whatever the excuse may be, I think it still boils down simply to the addition of another layer to the del.icio.us paradigm for some users such as myself.
Deepak | Mar 19 2006 at 2:01 pm
I would like to see better integration of the “private” feature with the firefox extension. Another cool feature would be providing a preference to make a particular tag always private by default. (with the option of changing the individual setting for each bookmark. For example, every time I tag something with “WorkRelated”, it would be cool of that became private by default.
Robert Björn | Mar 19 2006 at 2:10 pm
Fantastic! It seems to work really well. I can finally use delicious as my complete bookmarks solution. I expect to only configure a handful or so (out of nearly a thousand) as private and I think most people think the same way. In most cases bookmarks can and should be public but for the few where this is inappropriate, this is a really welcome feature.
visperas | Mar 19 2006 at 3:25 pm
Congratulations! I find this new feature very useful. Although I like to share my bookmarks (interesting things that I want other people to know), there are a few bookmarks that I wold rather not share (related to my work, for example) but that I want to have online, so I like this “private” option.
I think too (as Deepak do) that it would be interesting to have the possibility to mark a whole tag as “private”, and so the bookmarks we put under this tag for that moment on would be automatically marked as “private” (unless we specifically mark them as “public”). I suppose that you have already thought of this feature, but just in case not ;)
Brandon | Mar 19 2006 at 5:01 pm
I love this new feature! Another feature that might be wort having is making everything privite.
博客士&hellip | Mar 19 2006 at 5:06 pm
美味书签终于有了私有保存功能
把私有保存功能称为千呼万唤后才有的一点不为过。人们好象总是有不想为人知的东西。这大概是违背了美味书签共享原则的，所以迟迟不愿推出这个功能。
Hazelip | Mar 19 2006 at 7:15 pm
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+funny
You screwed up the tag intersections again somehow.
Randy | Mar 19 2006 at 8:56 pm
Man, I LOVE this feature!!!I really want to make part of my links as private!
dotku | Mar 19 2006 at 10:01 pm
#Feedback: about “?tags=”
under “http://del.icio.us/post?“, we can’t use “?tags=”;
but we can use “http://del.icio.us/UserName?“, for “?tags=”;
we hope “?tags=” can still working on “http://del.icio.us/post?“;
btw,
if(you fixed it){ please tell me (eMail would be better:D)}
#End FeedBack
Dave | Mar 19 2006 at 10:40 pm
Joshua, now my only complaint with del.icio.us is the 255 character limit on “notes.” Any chance you can expand that? Thanks!
Clifford Caoile | Mar 20 2006 at 12:37 am
Thank you for this feature. I just want to reiterate the comment I made before in the “del.icio.us: a few things and an outage” thread. (http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/03/a_few_things_an.html) — Is the “privacy links” feature something like this: “do not share” (yes|no, default: no) (when yes, add this condition:) “Publish link anonymously” (yes | no, default: yes) Hopefully these defaults retain the social aspect of del.icio.us. By making the defaults no and yes respectively, users will need to make an effort to be “anti-social”. What do you think about this feature?
Jon | Mar 20 2006 at 2:15 am
Fina-freaking-ly.
This is the one thing that was keeping me from using delicious.
Greg Dixson | Mar 20 2006 at 2:21 am
Yea, it’s one thing that was lacking..but now get the Import function working and I might actually feel like using my Delicous, rather than it sitting dormant while my bookmarks continue to grow.
almostinfamous | Mar 20 2006 at 3:29 am
yes! now i can bookmark all the free porn without having to share it!!
j.k(…or are i?) ., but thanks for this
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l0b0 | Mar 20 2006 at 4:15 am
I’m using the http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all URL for a public del.icio.us filtering engine (see URL). Will the private links be included when fetching this?
IMNSHO, you should add an optional parameter to indicate whether private posts should be fetched. This way, web sites will uphold privacy without changing their code.
Debajit | Mar 20 2006 at 5:59 am
One micro comment :) In del.icio.us > Settings > Private Saving, the checkbox for “allow private saving of bookmarks?” does not have a associated with it, which prevents me from clicking on the text to (un)check it :)
Debajit | Mar 20 2006 at 6:01 am
One micro comment :) In del.icio.us > Settings > Private Saving, the checkbox for “allow private saving of bookmarks?” does not have a LABEL associated with it, which prevents me from clicking on the text to (un)check it :)
(Am recommenting as the HTML tag did not appear on the previous comment)
Clyde Smith | Mar 20 2006 at 6:42 am
Right on. Now I can use your service!
zabouti | Mar 20 2006 at 7:35 am
I’d like to have private tags - mainly to separate more important tags from tags that are more like comments - not so much for hiding. Maybe tags need some hierarchy? And then private tags for real privacy.
Thanks for working on this.
SilentSlade | Mar 20 2006 at 7:56 am
This is something thats been on http://de.lirio.us/ for a while now.
Yuri | Mar 20 2006 at 8:04 am
I believe that furl.net does a superior job for private links. That is your benchmark, delicious.
Sean | Mar 20 2006 at 8:17 am
How about just a tag called ‘private’ or something similar so we can organize it, etc.?
Biff | Mar 20 2006 at 8:22 am
Who the hell is asking for this feature? This is a “SOCIAL bookmarking” site. If you want a bookmark private, don’t post them to a Yahoo! database you morons.
keith_is_here_2004 | Mar 20 2006 at 8:34 am
This is good, I don’t think you should make private bookmarking any easier to use than this. Having to enable it in some obscure way first is definately the way to go - will stop people using it unless they really need to. Now for something completely different: I agree with Dave - expand the comments field to allow more than 256 characters. Maybe 512? Most people don’t seem to use it anyhow so it shouldn’t boost the required storage space too much.
Josh | Mar 20 2006 at 9:35 am
Yay. private bookmarks. Finally. :)
Peter | Mar 20 2006 at 10:23 am
Thanks! I have played around with many other bookmarking services because they offered privacy, but none are as easy to use, configure or navigate as del.icio.us. This is a great addition and one of the few things missing.
orhan | Mar 20 2006 at 10:52 am
when i change a bookmark to private, it writes “not shared” and i cannot see how many people saved that bookmark. is this what i should pay for keeping a bookmark private? i would like to see how many people saved it anyway.
orhan | Mar 20 2006 at 11:00 am
sorry, too quick to comment! when i refreshed the page i saw it stay as always been before
Lifehacker&hellip | Mar 20 2006 at 12:02 pm
Del.icio.us adds private saving feature
Popular social bookmarking site Del.icio.us has added a private saving for those times that you just don’t feel that social about your bookmarks. Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our…
Patrick | Mar 20 2006 at 1:51 pm
The real magic isn’t just private bookmarks, but rather privately sharing bookmarks. I’d love a way to defined groups of delicious users, and then permission particular groups. This is a non-trivial request — I’m sure there will be implementation headaches, but I think it would be worthwhile.
There are social spaces in-between between the world and an individual. Businesses are one example, but also couples, families, and many more. I would love to use delicious for these spaces.
Cheers,
Patrick
whatsupnyc&hellip | Mar 20 2006 at 3:17 pm
links for 2006-03-20
del.icio.us: private saving ryan go to “settings” and click on “private saving” to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page. (tags: howto del.icio.us bookmarking)…
Jayber Residuals&hellip | Mar 20 2006 at 4:32 pm
del.icio.us adds private bookmarking feature
del.icio.us adds private bookmarking feature….
MATT | Mar 21 2006 at 4:47 am
http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2006/03/delicious-lets-you-have-some-privacy.html
Justin | Mar 21 2006 at 11:09 am
Any thoughts on when this might make it into the API? I’d like to consider adding it to Pukka.
dotku | Mar 21 2006 at 11:42 am
the email function on “contact us” is failed~
please fix it :D
dotku | Mar 21 2006 at 11:49 am
feature request: there is a music player on the bookmark, why not add a media play too? then, i could watch my mtv or other videos :)
Sérgio Nunes | Mar 21 2006 at 12:38 pm
Have you considered associating privacy with tags and not with individual items ? Being able to make tags private seems more natural in a “del.icio.us logic”. I could simply state that the tag “my-personal-project” is private and then every item (present or future) tagged with this would be invisible.
Seems more difficult to implement but also seems to hinder more potential.
GeekThang&hellip | Mar 21 2006 at 1:18 pm
del.icio.us go private
Finally, del.icio.us allows private saving of bookmarks! Nice. I
Mike | Mar 21 2006 at 5:37 pm
I have been wanting this feature! I’m very impressed! Will try it out asap.
Cynthia | Mar 21 2006 at 5:41 pm
Yes the javascript to email on the contacts page does not work, in FF or in IE.
So I cannot ask… when will the import feature work?
fulano | Mar 22 2006 at 12:04 am
Hi, I think this is a great feature. I started using furl and stopped using del.icio.us just because I needed to keep some of my bookmarks private for work reasons. Now I can get back to del.icio.us.
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Prashant Rane | Mar 22 2006 at 12:29 pm
This bug should be removed immidiately. My inbox went from 80+ a day to 8 a day. del.icio.us just as personal bookmarking service does not come close (not even the same universe) to del.icio.us as social bookmarking service. I started reading reddit and digg more, right from the day this feature was introduced on del.icio.us. Please turn it off, it is diluting the community feeling of del.icio.us.
Tobias C. Brown | Mar 22 2006 at 3:50 pm
I initially wanted to have a privacy feature however, as somone suggested, I simply setup a second personal private del.icio.us account and use this for all of my “secret” bookmarks. This solves the problem for me. Granted, I occasionally have to log out, log in, which is a slight hassle but not really. And it’s easy to forget which account you have open so it’s easy to accidently open the private bookmarks from the browser button — while someone’s sitting by, which can be slightly embarrassing yes, but who cares? I don’t think the new privacy feature is all that necessary.
marvinF | Mar 23 2006 at 9:27 am
Hey Guys
Why i can not see the privat bookmarks in my bookmarkslist (when im logged in)?
dcramer | Mar 23 2006 at 5:38 pm
Nice feature, but why not just make it possible to specify one or more tags that are private. For example, I choose to make anything I tag with private or porn as private bookmarks. Then all bookmarks tagged with private or porn are not visible to other users. I don’t understand having a separate mechanism outside the existing tagging mechanism.
Robert | Mar 23 2006 at 6:03 pm
Like marvinF, I too can not see my private bookmarks when I am logged in. They are counted in the list of how many bookmarks are displayed, but are not actually shown on the page. If it helps, i’m using FireFox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1)
Robert | Mar 23 2006 at 6:10 pm
As a follow-up to my previous comment. Bookmarks that I use the “do not share” checkbox on the “popup-post to del.icio.us” bookmarklet are not visible even when I’ve logged in. Any bookmark that I’ve already added and then go back and edit is displayed as “not shared” just fine.
Corey | Mar 24 2006 at 7:33 am
cool feature!
Ropp | Mar 24 2006 at 7:35 am
Hi! I love your service. It must be the best on the web.
Just what I am interested in is to know if you are going to implement more features into the site like: user groups (friends , etc) and ratings?
Does anyone know if that is likely to happen?
Frank | Mar 24 2006 at 10:10 am
Same as Robert and MarvinF, I can’t see the bookmarks i added via popup post and “do not share”. Haven’t tried the normal bookmarklet yet.
Robert | Mar 24 2006 at 11:33 am
And another update, the bookmark I edited to be “not shared” is also now not displayed when I’m logged in. The count of how many bookmarks I tagged as “private_test” is correct (3) but only the bookmark that I have set as public is visible.
Chuck Kahn | Mar 24 2006 at 2:52 pm
I like Patrick’s idea of “privately sharing bookmarks”, where you can define groups of users who can access your bookmarks. This is a similar to the public/private/family/friends setting for photos on Flickr (that other Yahoo! company). Another idea would be to share anonymously, but that can be achieved with a second account, which is a pain.
炎 | Mar 24 2006 at 3:32 pm
my tags is over hundry’s now. could you index them for us? like a-branch, b-branch, number-branch. or support us a folder, so we could put some tags togeter~ it scares me when i see hundry’s tags on my righSide
trun | Mar 25 2006 at 1:48 am
Hi, this is my first vist to the blog area. Just some feedback, shouldn’t there be a button somewhere to take as back to the home page or our personal page or somewhere. If it’s there, I didn’t see it.
Meri | Mar 26 2006 at 8:42 am
Love this feature! Admittedly I’m mainly using it so I can distinguish between links I want blogging via the auto-daily posting ;-)
Hazelip | Mar 26 2006 at 9:21 am
Why, oh why do you keep fucking up this RSS/enclosure/tag intersection thing?
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+mashup
Hamid Reza Mohammadi | Mar 26 2006 at 11:31 am
I think if del.icio.us must have a rating system for bookmarks. I have bookmarked several urls all discussing a single subject. I wish I can rate these urls according to their relevance and content quality, then I can sort my bookmarks for each tag on ratings I supplied, so that I can find my top rated urls faster.
Jay | Mar 26 2006 at 8:38 pm
Great feature! I actually already had a folder called private but this is better.
FEATURE REQUEST:
I would like to be able to rank my links on a 1-5 scale. That way when I need one, I don’t have to browse thru the 100+ links on PHP just to get to the one I want. I could just sort them.
thanks.
Stark County Law Library &hellip | Mar 27 2006 at 9:57 am
“Getting private with del.icio.us”
Tom writes in his e-newsletter: Finally, the folks at del.icio.us have heard my silent pleas, and added a feature that
ozan | Mar 28 2006 at 2:10 am
This is wrong!
delicious is on its way to becoming my favorite “search engine”. What is the point of “private bookmarks” if this is a community. What is there to hide? your porn bookmarks? gee get a clue!
I will never support this feature and it will hinder delicious’ progress in the future.
Frank | Mar 28 2006 at 2:59 am
There are quite a few links you don’t want to publish to everyone - links to company or private testservers, admin interfaces (phpmyadmin) etc. Or as someone said before - you are looking for a new job and don’t want your boss or your corworker to see your links about how to do interviews or job portals.
But you are safe, atm it doesn’t even work for some of us :p
Richard McKinnon | Mar 28 2006 at 3:02 pm
Good move. It allowed me to build a list of bookmarks I wanted to share with a closed group. So oridnarily i bookmark generally. On certain subjects it’s a For your eyes only attitude.
Richard McKinnon | Mar 28 2006 at 3:03 pm
Good move. It allowed me to build a list of bookmarks I wanted to share with a closed group. Ordinarily I bookmark generally. On certain subjects it’s a For your eyes only attitude.
ozan | Mar 29 2006 at 5:29 am
nonsense! I still haven’t read a single logical reason for private bookmarking.
oldnews | Mar 29 2006 at 9:08 am
Hey, this has probably been done to death here, but I am unable to get to any del.icio.us page except this one. They all give me the Yahoo 404. Does anyone have any idea why that might be?
alaa | Mar 29 2006 at 8:59 pm
Great site,
Thank you webmaster
sandeep | Mar 31 2006 at 3:50 am
Nice thing
thefangmonster | Apr 1 2006 at 9:57 am
I am also experiencing the bug where all of my items marked private are not showing up when I am logged in to my account. I can see their tags, but the only way to see a private item is to go back to the original URL and go through the tagging process again– all of my saved information is presented in the “tag this” dialog, and I can then mark the link public if I choose. This is not really a workaround since I just imported hundreds of links, which are all marked private; and I now have no way of editing them. Has anyone found a real workaround for this bug?
nick | Apr 1 2006 at 11:27 am
FWIW, allowing for easily private links may actually _encourage_ one’s use of the site to _share_ links. For example, this site is only useful to me if I can use it for ALL of my links, and I can only afford to use it for ALL of my links if I can keep private SOME of them. That is, I’m only likely to use this stie to share my “public” links if I’m able to keep my other links private.
So, thanks for a great service, and I’d suggest that you’d do well to make it easier to make whole batches of links private. I strongly believe this would encourage wider participation, and therefore net more public links.
wishcow | Apr 1 2006 at 2:26 pm
I was disappointed to find out that the del.icio.us json feed doesn’t support retrieval of the private bookmarks. it’s important that you guys add a url parameter that retrieves the private bookmarks as well.
Shannon | Apr 1 2006 at 5:12 pm
I also got the bug where all of my items marked private dissapeared and their tags are gone too. Which means I just lost all of those bookmarks. Anybody know how to undo this?
Jascha | Apr 3 2006 at 1:19 am
It appears that if a tag only has links associated with it that are private. Then it will not pop up as an option in the drop down. I have a tag with 50 links all private that never comes up after using the firfox plugin.
Frank | Apr 3 2006 at 12:04 pm
I even mailed the support about this - no response at all :(
G. | Apr 6 2006 at 5:52 am
Thanks! For instance, I just deleted an url - which is a blog where a teacher put the homework to do for dutch learners. This blog is ok, but with has too much security issues (clear emails..) I just did not want people/ google to know that url. But needed it when i’m not at home or ar my office.
This is a clear case where del.icio.us “perso” is usefull
Samuel | Apr 8 2006 at 9:30 am
Thanks, well done, this was a big step. I have just started ‘privatising’ some of my links (trust me I’m British I know Privatising can be a bad thing).
But I am privatising some of the more personal/Kinky sites-this is fair I think. In fact I have a whole section on that and I would like to suggest that a whole ‘tag’ be privatised with one click, but that could lead to a lot less sharing, so I dont know but anyway thanks!
Gal | Apr 11 2006 at 1:20 am
I can’t seem to find the URLs I had checked the ‘do not share’ box. where are they?
Jake | Apr 11 2006 at 10:25 pm
This is an incredible addition! Thanks so much for the addition.
Jonathan | Apr 12 2006 at 5:03 pm
I think the privacy addition is great.
I have done away with all my traditional bookmarks and now use firefox’s “live bookmarking” feature to read rss feeds from my delicious account. Of coarse 99% of my bookmarks need not be private but a few do like links to all my online financial account sites. Not that these links give people access to my accounts but they unnessicarily share what finanical insitutions I use and thus are a privacy concern to me. I am greatful that you have enabled me to marke them as private.
I am however dissapointed that I no longer have access to them via RSS. Would it be possible to implement HTTP Basic authentication into the rss feed portion of your service. i.e. if the user provides the basic auth credentials you would show private as well as public bookmarks.
e.g:
http://del.icio.us/rss/myUser/Accounts
would show public only
http://myUser:myPass@del.icio.us/rss/myUser/Accounts
would show both public and private
I noticed that you don’t support ssl so my username and passowrd would be going over the line as plain text every time I refresh the feed, but I am willing to risk snooping attacks if it means I can privately view my private bookmarks via RSS
People Over Process&hellip | Apr 13 2006 at 6:50 pm
Management by Feeds/Feed Managenet, Part 2: Getting Social Behind the Firewall
When it comes to using RSS behind the firewall, I agree with one of Marshall Kirkpatrick’s concern: I take a pessimistic view that most employees would add the rich meta-data (tags, for example), that a truly awesome “Web 2.0 Behind-the-firewall”…
vlsagu | Apr 14 2006 at 2:16 am
xxx pics
boobs
ClodiMedius | Apr 14 2006 at 2:27 am
Private or shared
Carrying favorites anywhere
Almost as good for Internet
As for humankind was the basket
No more electronic frontiers
Now we are second generation
It leaves no more tears
Ony the smiles of collaboration
Fruitful, imaginative
How could any one live
Without that commodity
In a post modern society
Bramus! | Apr 14 2006 at 1:55 pm
Hmmz, when using the del.icio.us firefox extension, it doesn’t remember wether you checked “do not share” or not (this being so since yesterday…).
Kindly,
B!
Bramus! | Apr 18 2006 at 4:17 pm
Ignore my post above, a few hours later it was fixed :)
Princess Sarah | Apr 29 2006 at 6:51 pm
I am unable to see the links that i have marked private. If i hover over their associated tags, the tags show that they contain more posts than i can see on the screen…. How can i later view my private bookmarks. I am logged in, so that isn’t the issue…
kahn dreyfuss | May 4 2006 at 5:40 am
I DON4T UNDERSTAND WHAT YPU WANT? REALLY…… CAN I BECOMME CIA MEMBER ?
JEAN CLAUDE
kahn dreyfuss | May 4 2006 at 5:46 am
I am just coming back from hospital where i was about 6 months. I am sufferinG very much but I FIND LIFE WONDERFUL AND EACH DAY IS VERY IMPORTANT;i ENJOY THE FLOWERS AND THE SKY? AND I TRYE TO BE NICE WITH OTHER PEOPLE;
Deborah | May 5 2006 at 6:38 am
I think the Private addition is great. This does not take away from the “community” aspect of del.icio.us only gives members an added sence of security with very personal URL’s like financial links. Good Job
Mike | May 8 2006 at 7:04 pm
Are you guys working on RSS feeds or similar for private bookmarks?
lars | May 15 2006 at 12:50 pm
The Private feature is great. But I have a few problems with it:
- the search does not search my private bookmarks
- it is not possible to edit tags that are only given to private bookmarks
- the auto completion for writing tags does not work for tags given to private bookmarks
no | May 18 2006 at 11:53 am
So how about the system:shared:no feature??
Ohhh, i love del.icio.us, btw. :]
thefangmonster | May 25 2006 at 10:18 pm
Just wanted do say, thanks for fixing the bug where my tags showed up but my private items didn’t. It’s great to have all my bookmarks in one place, going back to Y2K. Yay!
Carsten Witt | May 27 2006 at 5:37 am
Hi, saving bookmarks as private is a great idea, but: After importing bookmarks it seems to me all are considered private. Is there a reset function to set them all to public? Would be better than editing hundreds manually.
Claudia | Jun 27 2006 at 11:19 am
Great feature.
It would be even better to integrate tagging with privacy. For example, if I tag something “jobsearch” and I designate that tag as private, my employer won’t know I’m looking for a job ;-)
First | Jan 27 2007 at 7:33 am
Great feature. The best feature…