When Steve Gillmor wrote:

I wish Joshua Schacter would respond to Chris Alden and work out a Rojo flag-to-del.ico.us bridge so I can autopopulate my del.icio.us feed with items.

I responded by saying that it seemed an easy fix for something like Greasemonkey to take care of. Knowing from the same post that Steve is running Firefox on his tablet, Greasemonkey seemed a natural bridge-gap between Rojo and del.icio.us.

At the time I knew some javascript but not enough about Greasemonkey to get my feet wet. But as I used Rojo more and more I began to feel the gap between the two services more and more. I also kept a close eye on Steve’s Shared Stories in Rojo, hoping for some nugget of goodness to pursue, but the list remained empty, and I surmised that Steve might have no reason to share stories in Rojo if he had to put them in del.icio.us separately.

So I sat down and worked out the solution myself and wrote a Greasemonkey script that combines sharing in Rojo with posting to del.icio.us. If you run Firefox and Greasemonkey, use del.icio.us and Rojo, and are interested in unifying the share process in Rojo with the posting process in del.icio.us, this script is for you (at least until Rojo and del.icio.us get their heads together about it).

To get the script, go to this page and enter your del.icio.us username. The script needs to have your username so it can post to del.icio.us for you, and so the script must be personalised for each user. Please comment here if you have feedback of any kind. Down the road a but I’ll be adding some additional features to the script. If you’re interested in hearing about those when they’re ready, there’s a place for your email address.

My thanks to Allen Searls and Christian Wilcox for alpha testing Rojolicious.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 at 5:55 am and is filed under Rojo, The 'Net, development .
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