Re: New function: Bookmark ISBN?

On 3/29/08, jonassekamane <bonnabrand@...> wrote:
> Hi, i use del.icio.us to keep track of all my wishes. And on my wish-list i have a lot of books
>  - but the URLs often changes before christmas arrives and i can get my gifts or i get around
>  to ordering the books myself.
>
>  The books i refer to are the same, but the shop og publisher has altered the url for the
>  specific book.

Wow, that sucks. Surely this must be uncommon? I bookmark a lot of
books to my wishlist and I haven't noticed links breaking.

What you could do is link to some price agent. I'm not sure what there
is in Denmark, but for the Swedish market there is
http://bok.compricer.se and a few more. One can do ISBN searches, and
that specific site has nice URLs, too, so I might bookmark
"http://bok.compricer.se/0151011079" with "0151011079" being an ISBN.
People that want to gift me will then have working links to a number
of online book sellers, and will also see which one has the best
price.

>Then i thought: What if i could just bookmark the ISBN instead of an URL, and
>  when my family (around christmas-time) visit my del.iciu.os wish-list, they can simply click
>  on the title and be redirected to a/any shop that has my book? Eureka! No broken URLs and a
>  smile on my face when i unwrap my gifts :)
>
>  Hope you will consider this new feature - i'am sure i can be useful for other things than
>  wish-lists.

This sounds like too specific a feature for del.icio.us, in my
opinion. You could use a fake machine tag
(http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875), perhaps,
something like iso:isbn=0151011079, and then build a tool to do what
you want.

You might be interested in (my) http://del.ishli.st, by the way. It
would be nice to add some sort of ISBN smarts to that, actually. I'll
put it on my to-do list.