I’m writing this post on my Macbook in a hotel, using a 30 min WLAN coupon. Luckily, I stored all of my crucial sites I must have access to immediately as I log on, at Nevibes. It’s very simple stuff, everyone can do it. Of course, those using Firefox are always ahead, although Opera enables you to synchronize your browser.
Here are some tools which help you manage and store your online bookmarks:
Do you still keep your bookmarks the old way?
I know the title’s pretty weird. There’s a catch to it, though. Our job is to increase our web productivity, right?
You probably know this situation very well: you just finished your latest web design, and you want to take a break and just goof around a bit, which in web 2.0 geek means using a few of these sites:
- Digg
- Del.icio.us
- Stumbleupon
- Slashdot
- Propeller
(I see no purpose here in linking to them).
These are social media news sites. The biggest problem is that many of them have similar content, because popular content becomes popular universally. That is where you loose time. Digg is pretty slow, and while the other sites are faster, they’ll treat you to similar content most of the time. So the question is, how do we pick out our favourite news items from a heap of social media news sites?
Welcome to the wonderful world of RSS. Many social media sites, if not all, provide you with a full RSS feed. If I like Digg’s Linux/Unix category, for instance, I’ll subscribe to it. That will become my content of choice. But why go through all that work?
Popurls is a great aggregator with ‘the latest web buzz’. Not only has it got all the news from the sites above, there’s also a ton of other source, blogs and videos, all on one page!
I’m wasting my time professionally from now on 
Rumors are that the Del.icio.us revamp is coming out very soon. Del.icio.us, by Yahoo, is now four years old, and one of the first social bookmarking sites I remember using.
It is based on bookmark sharing. If you find a site you like, you ‘tag’ it - add it to your del.icio.us account, and connect it with certain keywords you think are relevant to your bookmark. Your bookmarks then go public, and that way the del.icio.us site aggregates every bookmark and sorts it according to its current popularity.
I used del.icio.us for a long time to improve my web productivity, because I can use my bookmarks anywhere with this handy Firefox add-on.
The delicious team is working hard on improving tagging and bookmarking. They are also implementing a new search engine (speaking of that - del.icio.us could be a search engine on is own)! The beta preview is sadly invite-only.
In my opinion, Delicious.com (new domain there, nice) is going to become even better. It’s a fast, small and simple site, which has all the power of Digg, or Reddit, in a much more practical way (you can even use it with an iPhone).
