Freshfaves: perishable bookmarks

Fresh Faves

Freshfaves is an online bookmarking tool that features perishable bookmarks. Add pages to your bookmark list using a bookmarklet in your favorites/bookmarks list. The bookmarks are kept there for following later, and when a bookmark goes 30 days without being clicked, it gets dropped from the bookmarks page.

Hence, a clutter-free bookmark list. It is useful for keeping bookmarks that are of only temporary use, or are of uncertain usefulness.

Bookmarks of temporary value include shopping list type bookmarks, tracking a product option until you decide where to buy; once the purchase is done, the bookmarks lose their usefulness.

If you find a page is of uncertain value, you can bookmark it here; if you never find time to follow up, or if it proves on the first couple visits to not be worth keeping, it will go unvisited and drop off the list in time. If such a link does prove to be of value, we make it one-click easy to copy it to your accounts on other (more permanent) bookmarking sites. Of course, we also provide a delete function to remove it immediately, if you so choose.

There are no login accounts or passwords; the authentication information is in the bookmarklet itself. We do make it easy to email that bookmarklet to yourself (for safe-keeping) or a friend (for sharing).

Rdbhost

This service is implemented using Rdbhost, of course. I used the JSONP data format, as it allows making cross-site requests (in this case, from www.freshfaves.com to www.rdbhost.com). It does not permit POST mode requests, but for this low-security application, that is ok. I am working on an AJAX-Rdbhost toolkit to make cross-site requests straightforward in any mode, and that will be announced here in its time.

The source code is available in a zip file, here.