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	helex	2011-11-12 , 10:27
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Originally Posted by Estel

You may find it quite PITA, due to google changing their logging method quite frequently. They do it, because they like break programs like gMail Drive (sometimes, new version of Gmail drive, just changing logging mechanism arrive every few weeks), so your application may be affected also.

Yeah, because of this I searched (or I'm searching) for something "like" google bookmarks, but with a official and good documented API. You found my thread already... my current conclusion: The most webservices are overstating the scope of a bookmark storage solution in the cloud. The most are trying to build a social community around "bookmarks". To many features, toooo slow and colourful webservices, mostly only working on specific webbrowsers, only with a special installed "toolbar" or they concentrating themself on own mobile applications (for iPhone and Android - not more). To make it worse, some are storing the bookmarks only "public" - creating rankings who has the most, who has which stored and what is the "most popular" website.

I'm really afraid of the login problem at google. It is not official and as soon as google change their login method my whole work was for nothing.

I read google is using the same webservice to sync and store the bookmarks from their chromebook to "the cloud". Do you know something about this?

If I had the skills I would build such kind of website myself. It shouldn't be to hard. 3 Tables in a database, "user, bookmarks and a assistance table for a tag cloud"... [sigh]

Originally Posted by Estel

I tried to check if Gmail Drive is Open source (so you could examine login method they use), but unfortunately, license isn't stated anywhere, and it's being released as binaries, so probably it's freeware closed source. Still, I've heard of phpGmailDrive for GNU (tool working just like gmail drive, but linking many accounts into one virtual big account) - You may want to search for it, it may be Open Source.

Hope it helps and is at least relevant to Your troubles

Thanks for the hint, the Source is stored over here at SourceForge: Link

I found the relevant parts in the source (search for "GM_LNK_LOGIN"), but php is very different compared to C++ and java... from my current point of view it wont help me. It uses the same links to login. But what I find surprisingling good are the release dates of the files: the most files are from 2005 and the last release 2007. So, if this application still works google doesn't change the login method that often... [finger crossing]

Have you used this application yourself?

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