Practical Internet Marketing Advice for 2006!

18|Bookmark Managers Part 1

February 25th, 2006 by Marcel Ursprung

The Bookmark has been an Internet favorite (no pun intended), since the introduction of Mosaic’s Hotlists feature in 1993.

Skip forward 10 years and a bit. The basics really haven’t changed much. For most people bookmarks are still simple lists of links stuck in a browser menu called “favorites” or “bookmarks.”

At first this handy list of all my favorites was a great idea. That is until I had to reinstall windows, and lost them all. I’m not the only one, I bet you haven’t been able to hang on to your favorite links longer than a few year either. Most us have experienced problems with our bookmarks, either through loss, multiple computer use, or just plain bookmark overflow.

This last week I have been searching for the Ultimate Personal Information Management System. As part of this system we will examine some new bookmark solutions. (I plan on never loosing another bookmark.)

If you do a search for “bookmark manager” in download.com you will find 74 desktop applications. The same search in Goggle will return 595,000 results. Needless to say there are loads of bookmarking tools with huge variety and flavors to choose from.

There are tools that interface with your web browser and extend the browser’s own bookmarking functionality. These tools are usually browser plugins or desktop applications. Some of these tools have taken it a step farther. Making sure that no matter what computer you are on, the browsers bookmarks are always up-to-date.

In search of a better search/categorizing interface some bookmark managers have abandoned the browser all together. Opting to use a custom desktop application with database support instead. Although easier to manage, accessing the bookmarks becomes a greater issue.

Since 2004 the emergence of Web 2.0 applications has made a huge impact to bookmarking technology. The simple link is getting a social makeover. No longer confined to the browser, bookmarks are now freely traded and shared among fellow netizens. Things are about to change and for many it already has. Social bookmarking is here.

Most of the attention is focused on the popular service del.icio.us. I will take a look at it and 7 other services to see which will form the backbone of our personal information management system.

Continues tomorrow

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