Open Source Bookmark Curation
With the latest release of Sweeper, you can roll your own bookmarking service. This is really powerful when you start activating plugins like our auto-tagger SiLCC or our our Push plugins which can output all of your bookmarked content as a feed that can be consumed by other applications.
We call this little plugin Quiver. It’s where you manually collect and store information using Sweeper. Essentially it turns Sweeper into a your free and opensource Delicious clone, with all the contextualization and aggregation features that people have come to love it for.
So how does it work? It’s simple! Just download and install any version of Sweeper following the current release of v0.3.2 which can be found here.
Once you’ve done that, go to the ‘sources panel’.
Select ‘Quiver’ from the list.
Drag the bookmarklet to your browser bar.
Done! Sweeper is a tool for the curation of real-time media. Now the things you find interesting can be mashed up with the content you’re aggregating from the web, twitter, email and other feeds! It’s particularly useful for journalists or researchers who need the real-time content, but who want to augment that with their personalized interests and findings.
