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We pushed online yesterday a new layout for marks within blogmarks.net RSS feeds.

What do you think about it ?

A little note to let you know that Blogmarks.net is no more a spammer and porn paradise.

• If someone post illegitimate content, we will empty then block the account. We may blacklist the IP too if we detect a lot of abuse from it. Illegitimate content is at our own policy: porn related links, links to SEO dedicated pages, accounts with links pointing only on commercial catalogues, etc.
• Legitimate users, please post illegal, porn and violent content privately. If you don't do this, we'll reserve the right to switch them for you.
• If you see some annoying illegitimate accounts, don't hesitate to contact us.

These two parts were launched a little bit ... rough. This is now (almost) fixed.

We are still actively debugging and stabilising the platform. Thank for your great support !

Sorry for this long long outage (2h30 -> 12h30 Paris time) ...

Not related with this problem, we have the pleasure to announce that Blogmarks.net v2 will be launched around the 24 may.

We encourage application developers and users of the web service to contact us this week. We'll give you a preview access to test the new toolkit and the new REST API. It's important because we made some non backward compatible changes.

Our screenshot facility is currently off. The cause is surely simply electrical but while we are all in holidays, we can't fix anything right now. It will be back up tuesday night if not before. When all will be ok, we'll shoot again all the kind URLs you blogmarked the last few days. Sorry for that, blame christmas :)

A good news, next time i will write on this blog, i will speak about "blogmarks.net 2.0", yep. It's going big !

update : tuesday : train - 19h check-in at our workplace - dsl connection down - fuck - trying to repair - fuck - unplugued the server - snow - taxi - home - replugued - 0H30 back up.

Due to a crash on our server, blogmarks.net was down from 9pm to 9am (paris time). Sorry for the convenience.

Suite à un problème sur notre serveur, blogmarks.net a été coupé de 21h à 9h (heure de paris). Desolé pour le dérangement.

update : Not related with the last issue, we're actually moving the screenshot engine on a new location. It will come back in a few hours. DONE.

Just a little howto for those of you who would like to add a nice Add to blogmarks.net link to the articles published on their blog (or anything else).

The URL for the service is : http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php

Just throw a GET request to this URL, with the following parameters :

• title : Title of the mark
• url : URL of the ressource
• summary : Description of the ressource
• via : Referer
• tags : a list of tags, separated by spaces

title and summary are mandatory.

title, summary and tags needs to be utf8 encoded, then urlencoded :

<?php $var = urlencode( utf8_encode($raw_var) ); ?>

BONUS :

Here is a javascript snippet to capture text highlited by user (we use it to fill in the summary in the bookmarklet) :

   var q='';
   if (window.getSelection) { q=window.getSelection(); } 
   else if (document.getSelection) { q=document.getSelection(); } 
   else if (document.selection) { q=document.selection.createRange().text; }

Easy ! What are you waiting for ??!