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Welcome to Bookmarking Online. Bookmarking online is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks so that other users understand what is being bookmarked.
In an online bookmarking system, bookmarks are usually public, but can also be saved privately if so desired. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, or by category.
Many online bookmarking services (see listing below) provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. Here is a listing of popular bookmarking services…
• Twitter
• www.MySocialBookmarks.com
• www.SocialBookmarkService.com
• www.BookmarkWebsite.com
• www.SocialBookmarkingWebsite.com
• www.SocialBookmarkSite.com
• www.SocialBookmarkWebsite.com
• Connotea
• Delicious
• Digg
• Diigo
• Faves
• Ma.gnolia
• My Web
• Mister Wong
• Mixx
• Newsvine
• Propeller.com
• Reddit
• Simpy
• StumbleUpon
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Good news: now you can use your favorite software on any computer!
In my previous article http://www.resortlabs.com/articles.php?page=7, I compared online versus standalone bookmark managers and mentioned the possibility of storing Internet bookmarks on mobile storage devices, such as flash drives. However, time moves on and computer technologies are constantly progressing. The prices of flash drives have plummeted and their ever increasing storage capacity now allows them store not only data but also the applications that use the data. This advance in storage technology has resulted in a new class of software known as “portable software.”
So, what is a portable program? How does it differ from a regular program? A portable program can be run from a mobile storage device such as a flash drive. A portable program does not usually require any special installation. The portable program and its data can be copied to a mobile storage device. It can then be used on any PC by simply plugging in the storage device. Ideally, portable software does not leave any traces on the computer where it was run. No entries are made in the system registry or desktop shortcuts, no files are saved to the hard drive or, if they are saved, they are deleted as the program is closed. The settings of a portable program are stored on the device that the program is run from, i.e. on the mobile device. Thus, a portable program can be called a clean, even sterile “weapon.”
Many new and portable versions of the more popular programs, both freeware and shareware, have recently appeared in the software marketplace. These include Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird and Portable OpenOffice. A more complete list of currently available portable software applications is available from this website: PortableApps.com.
Mobile device manufacturers are racing to offer us the most recent technologies that allow portable software to run automatically when we plug in our flash drives. For example M-Systems, now part of Sandisk, recently created the U3 platform. This is a mobile storage standard that supports application autorun as well as many other features. The list of software complying with the U3 standard is available on the website software.u3.com.
Portable software is becoming more and more popular among PC users. This trend is especially important for computer software such as bookmark managers. Portable bookmark managers eliminate the primary advantage of their online competitors – their ability to access bookmarks from virtually any computer connected to the Internet. Now you can just carry your bookmark collection on a flash drive in your pocket, together with the program that allows you to work with it, anywhere you like: to access your bookmarks all need do is plug in your flash drive to any computer.
So, what portable bookmark managers are currently available?
- Bookmark Base: http://www.boomarkbase.com
This program is perfect for inexperienced users. Bookmark Base has a very simple user interface. The program has a set of basic, but adequate, features that include importing and exporting bookmarks for web browsers such as IE, Firefox, Opera; adding and removing folders and bookmarks; checking the availability of web resources.
- Portable Bookmarks: http://www.portable-bookmarks.com
This is a more powerful program for managing bookmarks. As well as the standard features found in all bookmark managers, Portable Bookmarks has a flexible bookmark search tool that can search on several criteria. It also has a duplicate search tool. In addition, it can automatically synchronize bookmarks with IE Favorites and download descriptions and keywords from Internet web pages. This program supports the U3 technology mentioned above.
The confrontation between online and standalone bookmark managers has now moved to a new level with, I am sure, the imminent appearance of further portable versions of bookmark managers in the software marketplace. At this time, this new breed of portable standalone bookmark managers has the initiative.
Andrew Nemets is co-founder and CEO of Resort Labs, the software development company specializing in developing human to computer interaction systems, user interface improvements and routine tasks automation software.
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Social Bookmarking is a significant thing for your online shop! And here I’m going to tell you why.
No visitors – no sales. You own a web-shop (or even many web-shops) and you want it to be profitable. There are several thing, on which it depends: hosting, design, prices, payment methods, additional services etc. One of the most important thing is your web-shop RANK in search engines. Yes, exactly rank helps your site to be easily found by potential customers. The higher rank of your shop, the higher it is in the list of searched information between other (including competitive shops) web-pages. Usually, customers look through only 1-2 first pages for needed shop and you must do everything to be on those first pages! High rank of your online shop helps to increase your traffic – to get more visitors (read – potential customers). That is what you need!
How make your rank higher? It is easy to answer but not so easy to do. Of course, it’s search optimization (SEO). And an important part of SEO is Social Bookmarking.
Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users – Wikipedia.org
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting your web store. The more people bookmark you shop, the more value it will get for search engines and the higher rank it has. It also gives your site more exposure. Your web-shop rank depends on quantity of links to your site on other sites. The fact is that links from social sites are more trusted than from commercial one (by Internet users and also by Google and Yahoo). But there is one “but” – social bookmarking by itself is quite time-consuming. Make bookmarking of your site easily and fast!
There are a lot of services designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website. I’ll shortly tell you about one of the best. It is unique solution which will let your customers to bookmark your site: any your product, category or page into social favorites / bookmarking services – Social Bookmarks Supercharged osCommerce Module
Here are the most important Social Bookmarking Module Benefits for your online business:
- very simple way to bookmark your site
- your visitors promote your website – for you, without you
- increase link popularity – Improves SEO results in long run
- multiple design templates out of the box
Module Features:
- flexible bookmarks pane position suitable for any store design: choice from multiple predefined layouts are available
- turn on or off any bookmarking service
- support of all most popular bookmarking services – 120 out of the box and adding constantly
- support of Advanced SEO for osCommerce
- improves SEO results in long run
The goal of the Module is to help you to get more visitors, higher rank and, as a result, increase your sales. Don’t miss this opportunity and download free trial version here http://www.magneticone.com/store/oscommerce.modules/social.bookmarks.supercharged…oscommerce.module
Successful bookmarking!
Martin Wann, MagneticOne Company,
http://www.magneticone.com/
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