People love collections for some reason.

Uvumi has some sweet mootools work.

If you haven’t heard - Ma.gnolia - the online bookmarking service experiences that horrible event everyone fears - database corruption, and total loss of data. Not just the “primary” database - they lost their backups as well! Needless to say, that sucks. At the very least, their home page now has an apology explaining that it’ll take days to get things sorted out. I wish them and their crew the best of luck. Those situations always suck, are never fun, and no doubt is causing a lot of lost sleep. I’m not a Ma.gnolia user. I don’t know why I never joined - I was always a del.icio.us user and never felt the need to change to another service - I just needed something that let me access my bookmarks wherever, and I used it even moreso when the firefox plugin came out. I tag, I comment, I move on. I used to publish a collection of my recent links, but they were out numbering my posts. Needless to say, Ma.gnolia’s issues made we wonder about the safety of my own bookmarks - I don’t back them up. Now sounds like a great time to find out! Delicious Backups The easiest, most obvious method is going to “Settings -> Export” - you can include your tags and comments, should you want, and it’ll spit out one humongous HTML file. After a little googling, I found out from eConsultant that you can use this file a few sites:

Blogmarks.net Feed Me Links Furl.NET Ma.gnolia Simpy Yahoo! My Web 2.0

It’s possible to output your bookmarks in XML using their API - but they ask that you use it sparingly. Now, the additional “very cool thing” - they have a collection of third party plug-ins you can use - we’re talking plugin importers, API calls to PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Lisp, C# and MySQLicious - that last one I’m interested in, possibly as making it a permanent addition to my main server! Copyright © 2009 iKeif - tech and social media geek, mootools fan, and a ton of links. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@ikeif.net so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana

My employer, Resource Interactive, recently released the company’s Christmas wish (go to http://www.resource.com/ and click on “Wish” to see the large version - or CHECK IT OUT ON MY SIDE BAR! …I recognize if you’re viewing the article, it’s not as big - so if you hit my homepage you’ll see it in a higher resolution, or you can hit up Resource.com! It’s utilizing the Clearspring widget platform - easy deployment and sharing of widgets across Facebook, myspace, etc. It’s easy enough to just drop in the code in a post - but I decided I wanted to play with mootools Swiff plug-in - it’s basically SWFObject customized for mootools (so if you used SWFObject and mootools - you need to QUIT and start using Swiff!). I created a Resource Wish Wordpress Plugin - you DO need the mootools framework on your site (I’ve got a plug-in for that as well, but I’m working on rewriting it to utilize the Google AJAX Library so you can offload the bandwidth to Google, and you can just select the framework and go). So of course I need to also account for pre-existing loaded frameworks… To use it, you just add a div with and ID of “resourceXmas2k8″ and Mootools and Swiff will do the rest! Copyright © 2008 iKeif - tech and social media geek, mootools fan, and a ton of links. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@ikeif.net so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana