-----Original Message-----
From: Kylie Lindstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 1:48 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Browser Bookmarks...Hi Darren,I agree that is scary, but the difference would be that user's on my network have given permission for me to access the files and only for their own use.
This isn't a legal issue. Its a technology
issue. You're user's browsers don't have a clue who the user doesn't mind giving
personal information to. Its not a case of whether your users don't mind
this happening, as long as its only your intranet. The browsers have been quite
specifically designed to prevent exactly this from occurring.
Rather than getting our staff to login to the intranet, we've set it up so that we can grab their network identity, ie. login name when they log onto the network. This means that info relevant only to them is only seen by them as each user's login is unique.So in essence if I was visiting the intranet home page, the list under "fave links" is my favourites list. A nicer way of doing it is perhaps for people to be able to add their own bookmarks to the intranet as a seperate issue to their browser faves. It's also something I know how to acheive quite easily!! :)))
The other way to look at this is that your
users will be viewing your intranet with their web browser. At the top of their
web browser is a big button they can press to see their favourites. Do you
really need to go to a huge (or even tiny) effort to replicate browser behaviour
in the precious real estate in their browser?
How will you handle it if a user has 500
sites bookmarked (This is not unreasonable for some people). How will you handle
folders and subfolders in their bookmark lists?
I don't mean to be shooting you down, but
I've been down this path before, and its just not worth it. You would be much
better off devoting your development time to giving your users something that
their browser and your intranet doesn't currently offer them.
The only return on this investment is you
feeling happy that you've done something technically tricky. There are other
technically tricky things that the users will also be able to feel happy
about.
Take a look at this list of managers i found, some of which allow you to set the links to be publicly available. http://www.lights.com/pickalink/bookmarks/
I tried this link, but it never finished
loading. Perhaps its sending my bookmark list off to evil marketers!
;-)
---Cheers,Kylie--------Original Message-----
From: Darren Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 1:34 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Browser Bookmarks...I believe and hope that this is not possible.Marketing companies would kill for the ability to get that level of details about your likes and interests.You may think it would be nice to do this on your intranet, but there is no difference in the technology used to use your intranet and any other part of the entire internet. If its retrievable by your site, then its retrievable by every single site that you ever visit or have a popup ad from.Scary!RegardsDarren Tracey--------Original Message-----
From: Kylie Lindstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 1:25 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] Browser Bookmarks...Hello All,Does anyone know of a web service, custom tag or script already in existance that allows you to list a user's web favorites from their system?As most users on a network would have similar if not the same directory structure, I thought it might be a nice touch to an intranet for users to be able to access their personal bookmarks. Just not sure where to start.Cheers & thanks,KylieKylie Lindstrom
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Liberty Financial
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