Advanced Programmer Needed!

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Hey folks,

I want to create a program that helps with social bookmarking from as many different ip's as possible.

So this means that people who want their links bookmarked, bookmark other people's links.

I want a way of tracking to make sure people do bookmark other people's links. I don't know how to do this! (Any ideas???) I want a membership interface so when you login you can see exactly what you need to bookmark for that day, and how many people have bookmarked your links.

The real difficulty as far as I see it (with no programming experience) is how to track that people bookmark other people's links, and how to make sure that everyone's links are given to everyone else over time (instead of 100 bookmarks for a site one day, and none the next).

While there will be a limited number of bookmarks people can do a day, the more consistent people (people who bookmark other sites every day) will get their links bookmarked more frequently. So this really is a case of the good karma!

I am willing to pay a programmer to do this.

Is this feasible/possible?

Thanks
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  • If I am understanding this right, you mean real bookmarking on browser right? This will require you to install some sort of add-in to firefox or internet explorer. It's not really hard to do but you may want to hire someone who knows how to write plug-ins for browsers.
  • Off the top of my head this could work:

    If a user click the "bookmark this" button inside your service, that action could be logged. Then the user would be taken to Digg/Reddit/Whatever to follow-through on thier bookmark action.

    Later on, your service could check in with the bookmarking site to read the list of links that user had bookmarked to confirm the target link is on the list.

    May or may not be compliant with terms of service for the bookmarking sites. It could fall under "site scraping".

    -Ryan
  • Did you read this part?
  • I would recommend that you go through a freelancer site, like RentACoder, if you want to outsource a programming job. It will save you more money in the long run.
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    • Thanks for your replys! I'm working on it!
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  • It sounds like you want to create a system similar to SYNND.

    The concept is great. Implementation has a few barriers.

    Good luck with moving it forward.
  • Carpozi, I agree with Sandy. You'll have some barriers the biggest being that Social Bookmark sites aren't big on people manipulating their networks (even more so than most IMO). To make it happen you'll definetly need a page scraping component.

    Best of look with it!
  • There's a perfectly safe and trackable way to do this. You have someone create an application that embeds a browser and have people bookmark from there. You can even automate the bookmarking process a bit, so it helps them complete their part faster.

    The distribution of sites to be bookmarked can be easily achieved with a server side component (read script) that works together with the program and distributes the bookmarks to the the applications.

    This is a fairly complex programming task. I know because I have done several such systems back in the day when I was doing programming myself.

    Sending you a PM, maybe I can help with the development, if your budget allows.
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    • True... you could even develop you're own browser. Super easy to do (well... $2.5k to $5k easy lol). Best of luck with the project!
  • It can be done without custom browser too. You need to developer an app where user just set their login details of different bookmarking sites and your app will bookmark other user's URL in background which will add credit to this user's account. This credit can be used to add bookmark for this user's URL by other users.

    I am also thinking to develope such system, but it's time taking and I am unable to get free time to develope this.
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