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Webpages
Annotating
ButterFly -
lets you redline any webpage. With ButterFly-Reader you can add hyperlinks
& notes, highlight words, look up information, translate selections and
more. All within the same webpage and all within one single mouse-click.
Clipmarks Create an
online collection, annotate and share with friends/colleagues
Fleck.com - Fleck the Web!.
Add notes to pages, send them to friends.
hooeey is a personal web
application that records all web links that you browse and lets you use them in
a fun and productive way
Jotcloud
Sticky notes for the web. No downloads, free.
MyStickies, Sticky
Notes for the Web. You can place post it notes on web pages and annotate them.
According to the site they are bookmarks on steroids.
Protonotes: Leave
your mark. This is a collaborative annotation system that lets teams keep a
wiki-like conversation flowing around a particular web page.
ShiftSpace An Open
Source layer above any webpage. is an opensource browser plugin (FF only) being
developed by NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program and is pretty
close to internet graffiti.
stikkit makes
organizing your daily details as simple as jotting down a note or firing off
email.
Tagseasy -
business tagging & social search. Download the toolbar, tag and recommend
what you think is valuable. Create a tagging network
Trailfire is an IE and
Firefox plugin that lets you post notes (called marks) right on top of a
webpage and string them together with hyperlinks (making “trails”).
The plugin consists of a note button for leaving marks and a sidebar for
managing your trails..
Tumblr is pretty much a
link blog, but a very simple straightforward one from what I can see. Great as
a sort of scrapbook thing to alert friends and colleagues to what you've
found.
Webride
attaches discussion forums to each and every web page - on the fly.
websnapr - Website
Thumbnails For Your Site. This is a nice simple resource. Pop in the URL that
you want and they'll take a screenshot for you and display it on the
screen.
Wikalong Firefox
Extension. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the
internet.
Wizliteallows you to
highlight text (like on real paper) on any page on the Internet and share it
with everybody (or just your friends).
zpeech This resource
allows you to comment on particular webpages.
Bookmarking
A1-Webmarks is a
free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with
the power of social webmarking.
AllMyFavorites
Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and
family
Backflip
Check out the most popular links each day, set The Daily Routine as your
homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease.
BibSonomy is a system
for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. When discovering a bookmark or a
publication on the web, you can store it on their server. You can add tags to
your entry to retrieve it more easily.
BookmarkTracker
is a complete, easy-to-use web-application that allows you to safely store and
organize your bookmarks online and securely access them from anywhere on the
Internet.
Buzka You create links,
bookmarks, favourites, call them what you will, and these load into the left
hand pane, with the page in the right hand side. It's an interesting
approach.
Clipmarks Create your
personal online collection of clipmarks.
Chipmark
Bookmark, share - you know the score by now.
Complore provides
10MB of file storage, public and private sharing, tag cloud, popular feeds and
more.
Connectedy is a web
site where you can upload your bookmarked/favorite links from your browser into
a free account.
Connotea Free online
reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists Completely
free, no download sign up
del.icio.us. The one
everyone knows, I need say no more.
digg is a technology news
website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical
editorial control.
Digg.com/spy Similar to
Del.icio.us popular, emphasis is on tech news stories
Diigo: Social Annotation.
Collect, share and interact with online information from anywhere. Integration
of bookmarking, web highlighting and sticky notes.
Eluma is a bookmark
manager with more on top. Choose to get alerted to any important items, as they
happen - right to your desktop.
Browse Faves to find the
most popular web pages on any topic. Our community is finding new web sites
every day.
Feed Me Links
stores your bookmarks online so you can get to them anywhere. Import your
favorites and share your links with friends. Add tags to organize your links.
Discover new things. Open-source your interests.
Furl - Your Personal Web.
Fantastic product - I use it myself all the time.
Getboo Keep all your
bookmarks in one place, accessible from anywhere. Share some of your bookmarks
with the world, and keep some private. Find new websites from people's
favorites links.
Hyperigo lets you
store all of your bookmarks in one place, so you can access them from anywhere,
quickly and visually.
i89.us offers a free service
which allows you to submit and save your favorite articles/news/website/links
at one location that can be accessed from anywhere.
iKeepBookmarks
allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free. You can
access them at any time, from any computer... anywhere!
JigJak does what they
all do - adds an icon to your browser, lets you add stuff, comment on pages
other people have added (ala digg).
linkaGoGo - free
Online Favorites manager and Social Bookmarking Application. Instant access,
lots of functionality
LinkBunch lets you put
multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email
or even a mobile phone SMS.
Lilisto lets you store,
manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to
maintain them through your browser.
Myvmarks does what it
does, just like all the others
Net
Snippets. Download it, save what you need, annotate it, share it with
friends
Netvouz - Online Social
Bookmark Manager - Organize, Tag and Share your bookmarks. Free, 5 minutes to
set up and check bookmarks from any pc
Nextaris Your
all-in-one toolkit for searching the Web, tracking news, capturing Web content,
sharing files, publishing Web blogs, and private messaging.
OnlyWire: The Only
BookMarklet You'll Ever Need!. This single bookmarklet allows you to post to a
wide variety of social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl,
Simpy and so on.
Oyax is a social bookmark
manager. It allows you to add web sites to your personal collection of links,
categorize those sites with tags and share your collection not only with your
own browsers and machine, but also with other people.
StumbleUpon
Reviews. It lets you search, browse, review and share great sites
Surf Tail makes it
easier to find what you want on the web by following those who have gone before
you.
Surfulater allows
you to save anything you find on the web and organize it in ways you haven't
dreamt of yet. For starters you can categorize, cross reference and do full
text searches.
Tagground - The social
bookmarking mashup.. Put in a URL, see how it's been tagged, find other pages
with the same tag.
Thumblicious: see the
sites - viewing popular. Provides bookmarks of popular Del.icio.us pages.
Unalog You can look at what
various people and groups of people are reading on the web. You can get an
account and add your own links, and create and join groups too.
Wirefan Register,
bookmark, share, explore - all the usual good stuff.
zurpy. Create your
profile, organize and tag your bookmarks, share your profile with friends, use
a community search engine. Currently in alpha mode.
Bookmarking - social bookmarking
NOTE: All of these sites do exactly the same thing - allow
people to bookmark content, share it with others, vote for the interesting
stuff, vote to bury the boring/spam stuff. Most will have a browser widget that
you can add to make the process easier.
Digg is a place for people to
discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online
destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on
by our users.
Instacomment is a
service allowing website owners to add an instant comment system to their
pages. Use it wherever you think comments would come in handy.
Link Extractor
:: Webmaster Toolkit. This is just brilliant. Give it a URL and it goes away
and collects all the URLs and displays them for you to do a cut and paste.
PrintWhatYouLike is a free web page
editor that gives you control of how web pages look when printed.
Smart Bookmarks
Bar :: Firefox Add-ons. This is nice. It allows you to get rid of all of the
text for links, and just keep the favicon instead. As a result you can get up
to 50 links on the bookmark line rather than the 14 or so you can with use of
words as well.
Texty: The Simplest CMS.
It allows you to create some text and then it gives you a bunch of code that
you can put where you want. If you then want to go back and change the text,
simply change it at Texty and this gets reflected in all the places you've
copied the code to.
WebWait - Benchmark Your
Website. This is great - whack in a URL and this'll tell you how long the page
takes to load. Great for web designers.
WebMynd. This is a
resource that allows you to see your entire history - every page you visit.
It's a Firefox add on.
Interclue makes your
browsing smarter, faster, more informative. Very much like the SNAP preview as
far as I can tell, though you have to d/l software to make it work
Monitor web pages with PageTiki. Get updates by email or RSS.
Free
WatchThatPage -
Monitor web pages extract new information. Free, easy, with various
options.
bit.ly, a simple url shortener.
It does exactly what you'd expect.
DigBig - Long URLs
shortened ::. Run by William Hann from FreePint
doiop Allows you to choose
the extension for the shortened URL. Simple, free, easy
dwarfURL - Make your
long URL's a lot smaller with dwarfURL's short URL service!. With this resource
you can see how many clicks your shorter URL has had.
is.gd URL Shortener. Does what it
says on the tin.
LinkBee is the medium
to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money
doing so
NSFW is a 'not safe for work'
URL shortener. Pop in the URL you want shortened, or really in this instance
made safer and it'll pop out a NSFW address.
Qurl | Making long urls
shorter!. Usual stuff, but this one allows you to track traffic of the URL and
offers the chance to host pictures.
Shortio - Make My Long URL
Short. Remember when there was just TinyURL?
TinyURL. One of the first
services of this type. Simple, free, easy
thinfi Password protect a
short URL. That's pretty much what it does.
Pin in the map This
is a free service which lets you easily share maps of locations with your
friends via email or your website. Simply click on the map to mark a spot,
enter a bit of text if you want, and you get an easy link to the map to
share.
Sticky Map. Do fun
things with a map. Let users add stuff.
Yourgmap Use
Google maps to create your own list of locations
Miscellaneous
Feevy. Nice little
widgety thing - whack in your favourite blogs, they give you an HTML tag, you
add it to your blog and it'll display your friends blogs
Freewebs. They
have a bunch of free stuff there and a whole bunch of free widgets to make your
page a little livelier.
How
Much is Your Blog Worth? Apparently mine is worth $84,681.00. Is it? I
doubt it. Check to see what yours is worth though.
JS-Kit: Free comments,
ratings, and more. Product rankings, discussions, threaded discussions, all
freely available.
LabPixies -
Coolest Gadgets On The Web. Add a bunch of funky widgets to your pages.
Online Ribbon
Generator Tool. I like this. It creates a lil' ribbon for the corner of a
webpage, and you can type in some text to draw attention to things.
SpringWidgets. Widget gallery, express
widgets you can download, develop them, all on this site.
SproutBuilder is a widget
creator sort of thing. No, I don't know what it is either.
yourminis ::
main. Widgets for blog, website and desktop.
Polls
BlogPolling Voting
System This is a nifty little utility, that allows you to put polls on your
website. No CGI scripting, no programming. Add some javascript and you're
done.
Free polls for your blogs, websites, MySpace, hi5 and
Facebook accounts with PollDaddy
Quimble - Polls
done right. Create a poll, ask your friends, put it online.
ScrnShots: Share
your inspiration. From the website: it is the best way to take and share
screenshots of web and screen based design.
Skitch is
another of the screenshot capture programs. Capture part of a page, manipulate,
store, blog it.
Super
Screenshot!. Give it a URL and it'll grab a screenshot of the entire page,
top of the page and display it in various sizes.
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