How To Build Your Own Social Bookmarking App Using Scuttle [Podcast]

Last week, I talked about what some of the problems were with using social bookmarking services on the web.

Personally, issues I have are that the good services charge and all your information is sitting on someone else’s server!

Today, I am going to walk you through setting up your own social bookmarking application that you can open up to the world, or you can close off to yourself.  Either way, all you data is going to be safe and secure, and you’ll have your databases for backup!

For this tutorial – we are going to be using Scuttle – the open source bookmarking app.

1. First and foremost – download Scuttle
2. Extract it to your desktop
3. Upload it to your webserver, whichever folder you want it to live in.
4. Create a database and import the .SQL file found in the scuttle folder to create the necessary tables.
5. Edit Scuttle’s config.inc.php.example file to your own parameters
6. Set the permissions on the /cache/ directory to 0777
7. Go to the url!

Here’s a video tour:

 

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Now, with Scuttle, there aren’t any admin screens or any way to protect against spam.  There are Scuttle versions such as SemanticScuttle which provide a capcha like question for a user to answer before they sign up.  It should work and I am testing it as we speak..

If there are any questions or thoughts, please let me know!  There are two other server side bookmarking apps that I’ll be covering in the next couple posts, but if you know of any – please feel free to jump in!

Jason