| 摘要 |
A system and method for providing personalized, shared bookmarks that determines which bookmarks are to be shared with a given user based at least in part on an interest profile associated with that user. The interest file can be used to define important other users, for example based on attributes, titles, or names associated with those other users. Shareable bookmarks defined by such important other users are then provided to the local user through the local navigation program. This reflects the likelihood that the more important certain people are to a user, the more likely it is that their bookmarks are also important for that user. The list of important persons used to define which bookmarks should be shared may be determined in various specific ways. An interest profile may be automatically maintained containing a list of persons that are important for a specific user. The list may be automatically calculated based on information such as recent email traffic, and/or can be defined manually. Privacy issues may be addressed by enabling a user to prevent certain bookmarks they define locally from being shared. A user can accordingly mark bookmarks as being public or private. If a given bookmark is marked as public, it may automatically be replicated into other users' bookmark lists based on user interest profile data.
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