Open Source Social Bookmarking
At the last class I gave on Open Source, someone asked me if there was a way to put social bookmarking tools behind their firewall. I didn’t know of any open source social bookmarking tools at the time, but now there is one (that I know of):
The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is announcing a new version at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle today, and the big news is that the whole thing is being rewritten from the ground up. M2, as it’s being called, will include all of the features of the current Ma.gnolia, but it’s going to be entirely Open Source. A first look at M2 should be available by September.
Found via DownloadSquad.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Kete does include a form of social bookmarking, though not called that, as a part of its feature set.
Users can submit web links with descriptions to a Kete site. They can be browsed, tagged, searched within, etc. You may also relate them to a topic or post comments about them.
In Kete 1.1 this can be totally open to the public, or private to a particular set of members.
You can do the same sorts of things with images, video, audio, and documents.
For more info about Kete see http://kete.net.nz/.
Cheers,
Walter McGinnis
Kete Project Lead
Katipo Communications, Ltd.