Blinklist gets another gold star, a big one in my book. It all has to do with backup, something that most geeky types forget about until they hit an oops. So, like a good boy, I backed up my Blinklist and what did I get but an RSS feed of all my links! No more IE/Netscape favorites, but a well thought out XML feed. Here is a sample entry:
<item> <title>Virtual Network Computing - Wikipedia</title> <description>VNC Wikipedia entry</description> <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnc</link> <guid></guid> <pubDate>1162749883</pubDate> <private></private> <favourite></favourite> <category>Geekdom,Remote_Access,VNC</category> </item>The field names have obvious meaning and are easily parsed. The publication date is based on the standard UNIX epoch. The fields private and favourite are either blank or have a value of on and the field category is easy to parse with simple comma delimiting. Now I am off to pull together a few perl modules to play with this puppy! Kudos to the Blinklist team!
