Feed Me Links: Social Bookmarking for Cool Kids

Feed Me Links is a niche but thriving social bookmarking community. Having launched in 2002, we predated the social web we now take for granted. Think for a second: no no Like buttons, no smartphone feeds, no round profile pics... just pure, unprocessed, unfiltered URLs to everyone's favorite sites, tagged and curated.

At the time, browser-based (local) bookmarking was de rigueur, and hosting your bookmarks in "the cloud", let alone "open-sourcing" them the entire world, seemed almost insane. But slowly but surely, ~14,000 online archivists signed up to share their bookmarks with friends and the world.

Stats:

• 15k+ Users
• 400k+ Bookmarks
• ~15k LoC
• Platform: LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)
• Ads: NONE
• Outside Investment: ZERO

Key Contributions:

• Helped "make saving social"; the value of sharing can beat privacy + paranoia (sometimes)
• successfully leveraged user laziness via strong off-site:
• browser plugin parallel searching of your links when Googling
• easy access via smart A.I.M. bot
• email-to-bookmark gateway

Features:

• Bookmark any site: http:, https:, ftp:, even JS bookmarklets.
• Clean UI; doesn't look like it was "designed by an engineer"
• Migrate your bookmarks from Delicious
• Import any modern bookmark format, including Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc.
• You own your data: export your links as XML, RSS, or text
• link sharing, discovery, and commentary
• Link spam prevention / avoidance
• Power-user stuff like bulk editing/deletes

About Feed Me Links

Feed Me Links (feedmelinks.com) is an early social-bookmarking site used primarily by hackers, designers, musicians, and artists. Since I no longer have time to work on it, this page is basically a really elaborate 404 page :) Why not read the Feed Me Links Crunchbase entry.

I'm John Manoogian III, founder and chief hacker from Feed Me Links.
I'm working on something new that's pretty neat. Learn more on Twitter.