PubSub bookmarks
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About Blasta
Blasta is a collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content. It allows you to add links to your personal collection of links, to categorize them with keywords, and to share your collection not only among your own software, devices and machines, but also with others.
Once you are connected to the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a page of your interest, you can use the Blasta bookmarklet, and enter information about the given page. You can add descriptive terms, group similar links together and add notes for yourself or for others.
You can access your list of links from any browser. Your links are shown to you with those you have added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links with a specific keyword you define, or search your links for potential keywords.
What makes Blasta a collaborative system is its ability to display to you the links that other people have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific link. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you deem to be interesting.
Blasta does not limit you to save links of certain types; you can save links of types adc, dweb, ed2k, feed, ftp, gemini, geo, gopher, http, ipfs, irc, magnet, mailto, monero, mms, news, sip, udp, xmpp and any scheme and type that you desire.
Blasta was inspired by projects Movim and Rivista.
Why Blasta?
Corporate search engines are archaic and outdated, and often prioritize their own interests, leading to censorship and distortion of important and vital information. This results in unproductive and low-quality search outcomes.
With the collaborative indexing system which Blasta offers, and its folksonomical nature you can be rest assured that you will find the references and resources that you need in order to be productive and get that you need.
The things that you can do with Blasta are endless
Blasta is an open-ended indexing system, and, as such, it provides a versatile platform with which you have the ability to tailor its usage according to your desired preferences. Learn more.
The difference from other services
Unlike some so called "social" bookmarking systems, Blasta does not own your information; your bookmarks are categorically owned and controlled by you; your bookmarks are stored as PubSub items within your own XMPP account; you are the soveriegn of your information, and it is always under your control.
This means, that if Blasta be offline tomorrow, your
personal bookmarks, private and public, remain intact inside
your personal XMPP account under PubSub node
urn:xmpp:bibliography:0.
Information that is stored by Blasta
In order for Blasta to facilitate sharing of information and accessibility to information, Blasta aggregates your own public bookmarks and the public bookmarks of other people, in order to create a database of its own, with which Blasta manages and rates references to build recommendations and gather statistics of resources that are both valid and bookmarked more often than other resources.
Blasta does not store links of bookmarks that are marked by all of their owners as private and no one else has stored them in a public fashion (i.e. not classified private).
Blasta source code
The source code of Blasta is available under the terms of the license AGPL-3.0 at git.xmpp-it.net.
Our motives
We are adopting the attitude towards life and towards death, which was implicit in the old Vikings' and in Schopenhauer's statements: Living for the sake of eternity. Living with eternity always in mind, instead of living only for the moment. The attitude that the individual is not an in and of himself, but lives for and through something greater, in particular for and through his racial community, which is eternal.
About us
Blasta was proudly made in the Republic of Ireland, by a group of bible loving, religious, and stylish Irish men, who have met each other, for the first time, at the Irish Red Head Convention, and who dearly enjoy tea, and who love their wives, children and their ancestors.
It is important to mention that we have met Mr. Schimon Zachary, at the consequent Irish Red Head Convention of the proceeding year, and he was the one who has initiated the idea of XMPP PubSub bookmarks.
Conclusion
Blasta is for you to enjoy, excite, instigate, investigate, learn and research.
We hope you would have productive outcomes with Blasta.
“All you can take with you; is that which you have given away.” ― It's a Wonderful Life (1946)