Bookmarking needn’t be delicious

In an earlier post we highlighted delicious as a way for keeping track of websites while you are on the move. However nothing ever stands still especially on the web and we thought we’d have a look and see what else is out there.

Ma.gnolia offers similar features to delicious but also claims to make the social networking aspect of bookmarking more effective. The service allows you to range pages and once you bookmark a site will Ma.gnolia  make a copy of the text content on the web page so you can go back at a later stage to make sure you read what you thought you read.

Furl This once again offers a similar range of features to delicious and ma.gnolia. It will back up a copy of the web page and will allow you to update the copy when the webpage changes if you want to. You can also save a clipping with the book mark. This is a quoted portion of the page that is separately displayed and can be used for summarizing the page or identifying the most important part of it.

Of course no web based service type can ever be mentioned without Google and bookmarking is no different. Google offers Google Bookmarks as its bookmarking tool. Its ok as far as it goes but seems to ignore the social aspect of bookmarking, which to me is a drawback. You never know what other people have found on the web.

These are just a few of an ever increasing list of bookmarking sites. If you try these and you don’t like them, here’s a list of 500 bookmarking sites that you can invesigate.

Manage your bookmarks the deli.icio.us way

Having trouble keeping track of all the websites you found on the web? Why not try del.icio.us?

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you bookmark any webpage that interests you. You can add you own tags or subject headings to each site and add a comment if you want.

Login to Del.icio.us from any computer and you can check up on your bookmarked sites. You can also see who else has bookmarked your sites and in turn see what sites they have bookmarked. You never know, they may have found something you missed.

Diarmuid