I’ve just released the first “stable” version of urlmarkr. I’ve re-written the multi user code to allow the display of public bookmarks to users who aren’t logged in, added migration support so now MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 can be used as the database backend and I’ve also updated the everything to work with the latest release of Ruby on Rails including updating Rails Engines to 1.1.4.

I’ve also added some new icons using Mark James’ excellent Silk Icons. In the next release I hope to add support for themes using CSS and the ability to import from sources other than del.icio.us. I’ve also been playing around with the YouTube Library for Ruby. With three or four lines of code it’s possible to pull information regarding a video, including it’s description and tags directly from YouTube into the New Bookmark form. The code is currently in SVN if anyone wishes to have a look. You’ll need to have the YouTube library gem installed for this to work.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for future releases please let me know! For now you can download version 0.1 from RubyForge.

I finally got around to getting some more work done on urlmarkr. I have added support for thumbnail previews of each bookmark using the excellent websnapr as a source for the images. You will be able to enable or disable this feature according to your taste.

I’ve also got around to moving the website back to Trac after finally getting it up and running on Dreamhost thanks to this guide from Nathaniel Tucker.

Here’s a small update to my Social Bookmarks sidebar widget for WordPress. It fixes the problem some people had with images not displaying due to an incorrect path.

The widget allows you to select a number of social bookmark sites which are displayed in the sidebar. This allows your readers to bookmark your blog or article, depending on the context, directly to the social bookmarking sites you have enabled.

To install the widget, simply download the widget from below, and upload the contents of the archive to your wp-content/plugins/widgets folder and activate the “Bookmark Widget” under your plugin settings. You should then be able to drag and drop the widget to your sidebar and select which bookmarking sites you wish to display.

To upgrade from the previous version, just simply extract the archive on top of your existing installation.

You can see the plugin in action in my own sidebar on this site and you can download either a .zip or a .tar.gz version.

Please let me know of any bugs or suggestions you have.