Distributed Favorites

Lately, I've been pondering the idea of writing a global favorites system. Lately, I've been coming across so many resources in my day to day reading. Since I'm also a trainer some of the time, I really would love to share these with my students. I would also love to have people submit links. I think I would need two interfaces to this at a minimum.

1) IE Favorites (Anyone could have read access, but only I have write access) probably via a plugin.
2) Web Interface (for my personal site) with the capability of allowing people to submit links for approval)

I also would need the ability to keep everything in sync between IE and the Favorites database. Before I write this, I just want to make sure I'm not re-inventing the wheel. I've done very little searching so far, but haven't found anything that completely meets my needs yet.

I think the back end really should be an XML Web Service. At this point, these are just thoughts for further investigation though... Have you already seen such a system? Leave me a comment!

Introduction

   Welcome to my Blog! As the description reads, this is my technical blog. I've been telling myself I would start blogging ever since I discovered RSS. That was about 8 months ago. I'm very glad that I've finally gotten around to it.

   My dad brought home a computer when I was 5. It was a Commodore 64. That was when my addiction started. When I was 15, I finally managed to break into the technology industry. I got my work permit, and ended up finding a job in technical support at Northern Indiana Internet Access. Tim Schlie hired me, and I will be forever greatful to him for that. He taught me quite a bit about UNIX and Linux System administration. The best thing about working at an ISP was having access to the T-1. Especially once they gave me keys. A little over a year later, I moved to Crown.Net. Dave Bellar and I were a 2 person ISP. Crown.Net was one of the funnest places that I worked. The phone that we swung around to each other and shared was one of the neatest perks of any tech support job. 2 people with 1 phone! I still miss my desk with my Sparc 20 workstation, my IBM Thinkpad with the butterfly keyboard, and of course my Sun 3/60... Slowpoke. She still lives somewhere in my fathers house being used as a table, I think. It's hard to get around to reviving her when I've got my UltraSparc these days... I also started to work with Windows NT quite a bit. I decided I would get some training for my MCSE. Life was quite a whirlwind after that.

... To Be Continued