Very cool, I didn’t know del.icio.us had private bookmarks! Alex Bosworth has a script that generates a ‘bookmarklet’ that you can use to create bookmarks that only you can see.
A while back I made a bookmarklet for del.icio.us that lets you save bookmarks for yourself that no one else can see are in your bookmarks.
Unfortunately in the move to the new and improved servers that now host LiveMarks, I forgot about the bookmarklet and this week it hasn’t been working.
If you are using the del.icio.us bookmarklet, I’m sorry but you’ll have to generate a new bookmarklet on this page, so you can continue posting bookmarks for yourself.
I hope this gets integrated into flock soon, because I have some bookmarks that I’m not using yet in flock because I can’t let the general public see them yet!
I’m not sure this functionality is reliable. For example, if I tag something “for:chris” (what the “private” bookmark stuff uses, as I understand it), it still shows up in my bookmarks to anonymous users, but it doesn’t have that tag associated with it. So it’s a private tag rather than a private bookmark. We do intend to support private bookmarks when our service providers support them.
Yes, that’s true, you can see the bookmarks in the ‘private’ user. It doesn’t associate you with the bookmark, which semi-private. I guess it still shouldn’t be used for URLs that are still supposed to be private, but it can be used to bookmark public URLs that you don’t want people to know you have bookmarked.
Flock is very cool, keep up the good work and thanks for posting on my blog!