Build your own Del.icio.us website!
April 7, 2008
Pligg is for Digg as GetBoo is for Del.icio.us.
I was happily surprised to have found this open source project. Besides from being a website that can organize my bookmarks, GetBoo also releases the entire platform for download under GPL license. So, not only can I use their services but I can also copy it freely!
The project was created in 2005 and the website already has 14000 registered members sharing their bookmarks.
GetBoo.com has quite a good number of features to make organizing bookmarks easy. After you’ve gone through their free registration, you choose to import your bookmarks stored in your browser. There are detailed tutorials for IE, FF, Safari, Opera, and Netscape.
Afterwards, you can install a Firefox extension so you can submit sites to GetBoo with a click of a button. One button is to make the submission and the other is to go directly to your GetBoo page.
Now, bookmark away! The submission page is pretty similar to other existing websites with title, description, tags, and the option to organize it all inside specific folders you choose.
The frontpage for GetBoo will display all publicly stored bookmarks. But, it looks like submissions from newbies will not be displayed there. You need to have an account older then 60 days to share public links.
There are also other options you can mange from your account’s page. Including import from Del.icio.us, exporting, and stats.
The platform itself seems to be very easy to install. Find our more and download link are GetBoo’s SourceForge page. It seems the only difference from this package and the released version for download is Firefox’s extension which isn’t available forgeneral release (yet).
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April 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Hi, first thanks for this amazing review, it is quite detailed
I am the author of this project.
If I get your last point correctly about the Firefox extension, I’ve included the page which announces the availability of the extension for Firefox users in the latest release, version 1.04 (judging by the date of your post, it falls on the day of this release). I only included it in this release as now the extension is configurable for installations of GetBoo (the user can change the address of the installation).
Thanks for your feedback!
Maxime
April 16th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Hello Maxime! Thanks for the visit! After writing this article I’ve received quite a few emails from people very happy about discovering your project.
Thank you for this great project! I’m very happy GetBoo user and more then glad to spread the word!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Have been using Scuttle testing getboo having issues with install and detailed docs
July 30th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
OK, installation was a breeze. I tried installing on ‘localhost’ machine, but PEAR is required (plus I running an older version of PHP) ….
Compared to Scuttle, this was a breeze and very impressed by backend management (spam, timeouts, etc …). Will explore further
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Pligg is one of the best Digglike scripts out there imo. Too bad it’s so hard to customize the templates.
July 5th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Finally found the info I needed thanks to your great blog, thanks! ^^
November 12th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Thanks for the good documentation… I am working on my current project CLICKBUZZ, I installed Pligg, but I think it takes more time to execute, I am trying for Getboo and Scuttle, I am trying my best to get this done.