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Are Bookmarks Dead?Are Bookmarks Dead?Are Bookmarks Dead? 01/25/2004 09:24 AM What's Next: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites: There is a $378,000 study underway to figure out why no one uses heir bookmarks. ...bookmark lists have become "information closets" that hold a jumble of sites people never return to. Only hyperorganized users sort sites into folders, clean out dead links or click on inscrutable addresses to figure out why they were bookmarked in the first place And, not to beat a dead horse or anything, Microsoft is again going to rei nforce my point that taxonomies just may be dead and you really just need good search. ...a senior researcher with Microsoft who is also part of the University of Washington team, has helped develop a program called Stuff I've Seen. The software is designed to help people recall documents like e-mail messages and Web sites through a unified search interface. Keyword search results include related Web sites already visited, regardless of whether they have been bookmarked. Click here to comment on this entry This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Are Bookmarks Dead?Grok Headline matches for Are Bookmarks Dead?Beyond BookmarksBeyond Bookmarks 01/08/2004 07:41 PM Beyond Bookmarks h ttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031223071958.htm People are using the Web more than ever for their work-related and personal research, but keeping track of valuable URLs is just getting harder. William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research looked into the many tricks that people use to save "found" information (bookmarking, sticky notes, self-addressed e-mail, etc.) but concluded that most people don't use any of them when it comes time to revisit a page. They just go through the original search process all over again. "Our results so far tell us the tools for keeping track of Web pages don't mesh well with how people work with the Web," says Jones. The researchers found that even when offered an enhanced "Add to Favorites" option to a Web browser, it was largely ignored by students in the test group. As a result, the researchers are developing a conceptual framework for how people stockpile information, dubbed the "personal anticipation of information need," or PAIN. "People are motivated by PAIN," quips Bruce. The team is also addressing the problem of "information fragmentation" -- vital info is often scattered across e-mail, files, contact information, Web references, etc. -- with a "My Life" personal taxonomy intended to provide techniques and tools for organizing this hodgepodge of data. "We live in the Information Age, and the effective use of information is the key to prosperity," says a program officer at the National Science Foundation, which is funding the effort. "This project provides the theoretical underpinnings for a human-centric information environment that will enable individuals, families, organizations and societies to continually build upon their experience and gain control over the seemingly endless volumes of information confronting them." Womcat BookmarksWomcat Bookmarks 01/09/2004 09:55 PM freshmeat.net: Project details for Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. It can output the bookmarks as an HTML page and as an RSS 2.0 file that can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps folder names into the "category" element. It can download other RSS files, treating them as categorized bookmarks to create a local database of Web bookmarks that can be browsed by subject. It supports RSS discovery by allowing posting RSS file URLs as new items.... Womcat Bookmarks 2.6Womcat Bookmarks 2.6 11/01/2003 01:59 AM A Web bookmark manager that uses RSS to share bookmarks. Organize Your BookmarksOrganize Your Bookmarks 08/12/2004 04:00 AM G4 Tech TV Aug 12 2004 8:11AM GMT Bookmarks SynchronizerBookmarks Synchronizer 07/02/2004 11:26 AM Yesterday during the Mozilla love-in, Gadgetopia reader Tomas hipped us to the Bookmarks Synchronizer Extension. I hadn't heard of it before, but it's a great extension. Basically, you give it an FTP site, and it will upload a copy of your bookmarks. Add it to another copy of FireFox (at home, for instance), and you can use it to keep the two copies in sync. It also has an option to only synchronize a folder instead of the whole bookmarks tree. That would be a great way for a team to share a common list of bookmarks. I work with a group of folks who are all learning .NET. Whenever someone finds a site with good information, we e-mail the links around to each other. The bookmarks extension would be even better. Click here to comment on this entry Social BookmarksSocial Bookmarks 04/15/2005 09:44 AM Hoarding a goldmine of bookmarks? Share your killer taste in websites or keep your bookmarks to yourself - online. In this week's Freeloader Friday we'll take a look at the best new "social bookmark" services on the web, and look at the freeware that support them. Womcat Bookmarks 2.7Womcat Bookmarks 2.7 09/23/2004 03:54 PM A Web bookmark manager that uses RSS to share bookmarks. Change Your Old BookmarksChange Your Old Bookmarks 01/23/2004 02:20 PM Hey folks, if any of your are subscribed to the RSS feed under the old deanebarker.net domain name, you need to get that changed to gadgetopia.com right quick. DNS on deanebarker.net is changing as we speak, as that site is going to become my personal blog sometime in the future. If you don't change the domain name, this may be the last post your aggregator can find. Whether that's a blessing or curse, I leave to you to decide. Click here to comment on this entry online-bookmarks 0.4.0online-bookmarks 0.4.0 07/16/2004 01:40 AM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. online-bookmarks 0.1.11online-bookmarks 0.1.11 12/04/2003 03:36 PM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. online-bookmarks 0.4.2online-bookmarks 0.4.2 08/01/2004 03:20 PM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. Womcat Bookmarks 2.6.5Womcat Bookmarks 2.6.5 12/31/2003 01:35 AM A Web bookmark manager that uses RSS to share bookmarks. online-bookmarks 0.1.5online-bookmarks 0.1.5 11/15/2003 04:32 PM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. online-bookmarks 0.4.4online-bookmarks 0.4.4 09/06/2004 03:51 AM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. online-bookmarks 0.2.4online-bookmarks 0.2.4 05/22/2004 05:10 PM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. What are live bookmarks?What are live bookmarks? 09/14/2004 06:37 PM mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.html Netscape-Bookmarks-1.6Netscape-Bookmarks-1.6 09/15/2004 11:38 PM online-bookmarks 0.2.0online-bookmarks 0.2.0 05/09/2004 07:57 PM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. online-bookmarks 0.2.6online-bookmarks 0.2.6 06/05/2004 08:47 AM A tool for storing bookmarks and favorites online. Firefox Live Bookmarks == IE CDF?Firefox Live Bookmarks == IE CDF? 09/20/2004 01:06 PM William Slabbekoorn (see his comment in Firefox RSS Support) duplicates Firefox Live Bookmark feature for IE with a bit of server-side ASP code that transforms RSS into CDF. You remember CDF don't you? If my feed was in CDF format, server-side component wouldn't have been necessary which makes Live Bookmarks as uncrappy and useful as CDF. Below is a partial screenshot of my feed displayed as IE's 'Live Channel':
Full screen version from William Slabbekoorn (Local Copy). IMHO, false praises are worse than no praise at all. Smart Folders, Bookmarks, And MoreSmart Folders, Bookmarks, And More 07/05/2004 08:43 PM Here's Mail 2.0. del.icio.us - Social Bookmarksdel.icio.us - Social Bookmarks 12/26/2004 07:26 AM del.icio.us - Social Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/ del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others. You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords. What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Bookmarks for standards testingBookmarks for standards testing 05/30/2004 07:03 PM Joe Clark has put together an enormous list of standards and accessibility bookmarks (via WebSt andards.org). Sync Bookmarks UtilitySync Bookmarks Utility 12/11/2003 05:04 PM Version 0.8.1 Released Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines?Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines? 04/07/2005 03:29 PM Paste multiple bookmarks into SafariPaste multiple bookmarks into Safari 08/31/2004 09:45 AM I just discovered that Safari will allow the pasting of multiple bookmarks into a new bookmark folder, and it became a HUGE boon to productivity for me. In my case, it went like this .... I was reading my weekly Apple Develop... Export Safari bookmarks to XBELExport Safari bookmarks to XBEL 04/09/2004 03:54 PM For accessing my Safari Bookmarks while on the road, I have a little web application running which makes use of the ever more popular XBEL format. So here's my little Perl script to convert Safari's Bookmarks into XBEL format... Bonus Tip: Easy-Access BookmarksBonus Tip: Easy-Access Bookmarks 07/30/2004 05:01 AM G4 Tech TV Jul 30 2004 8:10AM GMT online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch)online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch) 04/17/2005 11:16 AM 
online-bookmarks is a bookmarks management system to store bookmarks,
favorites, and links on the WWW where they actually belong. It is
meant for people who work often with different computers and browsers.
It supports multiple users, multiple languages, and has a folder
structure of arbitrary depth. Importing and exporting bookmarks from
and to Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer are possible.
Changes: This is a complete redesign of online-bookmarks from scratch. "Charles Darwin stickers and bookmarks""Charles Darwin stickers and bookmarks" 03/24/2005 01:50 PM PC Data and Bookmarks Dangle From Your
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