| del.icio.us, importing trillian chatlogs to gmail? db backed filesystems |
[Jul. 30th, 2007|05:05 pm] |
So today I finally got tired of my old bookmarks list, I think it was triggered by the fact that I'd felt like I coludn't really add things to it in the past year. There were also folders of cruft and deadlinks. It was frustrating all around. In addition to this I've been spoiled by gmail's tagging system for e-mails and googledocs tagging system for files, and gmail's indexing of my gchats. Livejournal too has the tagging, and to a limited extent I've been using that as well, however I have a tendency to talk about a bunch of things and putting tags for everything doesn't always make sense. In any case, all of those systems make for rapid random access to the data stored. Further, for at least the past year I've pseudo used livejournal for the same purpose as del.icio.us, storing bookmarks and reading what others post about their bookmarks and urls etc. I jumped to del.icio.us (one of the first and debatably the most successful domainhacks ever) today, and cleaned out all my bookmarks and tagged all the ones that were still working that I wanted to keep. Surprisingly enough this was pretty gratifying and I know in the future my bookmarks will all be found at: http://del.icio.us/fbartho It's a shame that yahoo bought this service, because I would totally vote for it to actually be bought by google and have it integrated with the rest of the tagged objects available through google.
This also threw me off on to two tangents:
Firstly, if I can get my gchat logs in gmail if I use their webinterface to chat, is there some practical way for me to import all my chatlogs... ever into gmail? I have 26 megs of pure plain text logs just from aim conversations since 2000-2001 through today. Minus sporadic empty blocks of a couple months, those logs plus the logs from my other messenger services account for a significant portion of my life's cultural online presence, though the conversations may be meaningless or may be embarrassing, I don't want to lose these logs, if I could import them into gmail I'd have them with me along with e-mail logs for a similar period of time (not quite as extensive though) My other option is to write a custom online chatlog database, however that would require a good deal of writing of text processing scripts, of backend management, and of searching in addition to the ui. All of this I'm not too too keen on, but if I have no other choice than I'll be considering it more seriously.
Secondly why hasn't anyone made a userfriendly and a programmer friendly db backed filesystem? It seems to me like doing something like that would allow for loads of functionality. All the metadata would be stored in ram, allowing for large amounts of highspeed searching. It would allow for the tagged filesystem discussed better by others, and poorly by myself before. Finally, this would allow a filesystem to be local or nonlocal. Depending on the amount of RAM a system has, it could make the filesystem blazingly fast. Thin clients could be more useful to people. |
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