I’d like to introduce a project I’ve been working on for the past week.

From the Selfmarks site:

Selfmarks is anti-social bookmarking for the technically endowed. Trouble-free bookmarking for geeks. Bookmarking without the centralization handcuffs; you take all the credit (and blame).

I used Diigo to manage all my bookmarks for the past couple years, and for the most part the service has been decent. I would still recommend them as a good site for social bookmarking. But now and again, I would find their servers responding very slowly, and I just got fed up with that, because I never really used the “social” part of social bookmarking. All I really wanted was a place on the Internet I could put my bookmarks.

So, after one more episode of dissatisfactory service, I finally cracked and started writing up my own bookmarking site.

Selfmarks is written in Ruby, using the Ramaze web framework. I access a PostgreSQL database using M4DBI for ORM. Thanks go to Alexut for the Selfmarks logo.

Selfmarks is OpenID-enabled, so go ahead and use your OpenID to instantly create an account and play with the site. You can import your bookmarks in delicious format.

The project is open source; grab it from github, or

git clone git://github.com/Pistos/selfmarks.git

Installing Selfmarks for oneself should only be a mild challenge for a seasoned programmer. There has already been one other successful installation by an experienced Rails and Ruby dev.

Let me know what you think! Leave a comment on this blog post, or chat with me on FreeNode.

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