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Sidebar wonkery

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I've gone and added a feed on the sidebar that displays my most recent 15 links from del.icio.us. The feed is actually powered by Spurl, another online link-logging/sharing service.

Spurl actually did a very smart thing and allowed del.icio.us users to import their bookmarks into Spurl, and use the Spurl interface to post to it and to del.icio.us at the same time. It's smart, because del.icio.us seems to already have the critical mass of users to make it a really good forum to swap links -- something with some of the other services seem to lack.

The payoff is that del.icio.us users don't have to abandon a strong link-swapping community, and can still take advantage of Spurl's functionality -- like more flexible syndication options, and the ability to save a "local" copy of the page you link to.

Meanwhile, there's Furl, which I've also played with a little bit. Furl also has more advanced functionality than del.icio.us -- including the ability to download your cache of saved pages as a ZIP file -- but I didn't find the selection of links from other users to be as good.

Anyway, check out the sidebar for quick bits and pieces that I'll link to on the fly (and, yes, there is an RSS feed).

[Addendum 27 April 2004: I adjusted Spurl's sidebar feed to display the last 25 entries instead of 15. Is it too much? (The RSS feed from del.icio.us still only has the last 15 links.)]