Most programmers use multiple computers (at home and work) and it is often difficult to share bookmarks. You can email links to the home and office, you can use a bookmark sharing website (often requiring you to either go to the site and add the bookmark or downloading a windows only program).

I like my solution better. If you have your own cgi running website you can set up an email account that you can send your links too. Then write a perl script similar to the one below that can be run by a cronjob to rip links out of the email and save them to a flat file or database for the your website to display. The advantage in this approach is that just about all browsers have a email link option that is convient and easy to use. Here is a simple perl script that writes the links too a file.

Other possible features that could be added:
1. Using LWP to grab the title of the page.
2. Categorizing the link. Maybe the link can go into a holding area to be categorized later or you can use the subject line of the email to specify the category. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::POP3Client;
use strict;
use Misc;

#Creating PopMail Object
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER => "RESU",
                             PASSWORD => "DROWSSAP",
                             HOST => "tsoh.com");

my @linkList=slurp("linkList.inc");

for (my $i=1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++) # Loop through messages
{
   my $body = $pop->Body($i);
   while ($body =~ s/(http:\/\/[^\s]*)//)
   {
      push @linkList, $1;
      print "$1\n";
   }

   $pop->Delete($i);
}
$pop->Close();
dumpOut("linkList.inc", @linkList);

exit 0;
###########################

sub slurp
{
  my $file =shift;
  my $save = $/;
  undef $/;
  open FIL, "$file";
  my $input= <FIL>;
  close FIL;
  my @list = split /$save/, $input;
  $/ = $save;
  return @list;
}

sub dumpOut
{
  my $file = shift;
  open FIL, "|uniq >$file";
  while(my $content = shift)
  {
     print FIL $content, "\n";
  }
  close FIL;
}

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I always wanted to be somebody... I guess I should have been more specific.

In reply to A different approach for bookmarks. by atlantageek

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