A few nights back, I tried to copy all my bookmarks in XML format from del.icio.us. Their XML exporter was down so I had to export it into the Netscape bookmark format, then do some grep/sed magic to transform it to XML before I could move it into a usable format. It was a total pain, but it gave me confidence that holding on to my own data is still a good plan.

There are a few del.icio.us clones, but the best out there is Scuttle which has the perk of supporting the del.icio.us API. The install was slightly irritating, and I can only tag bookmarks for people on anokwa.com, but I do have it running and it’s pretty good. I’ll hoping to code up cross-server tagging in a few weeks, but until then you can see my links at http://links.anokwa.com/.

Next up is a Flickr replacement which is coming along nicely at http://gallery.anokwa.com/.