What if you could save every single Web site you like with the click of a button?
Of course, you already can; these three great bookmarking services stand out from the crowd.
Del.icio.us | Windows Live Favorites | Diigo
The best way to collect cool Web sites used to be to save them to your browser's menu of bookmarks or favourites. But the more you saved, the easier it was to lose track of the pages within an ever-growing list of folders. Thankfully, the Web 2.0 generation of bookmarking tools is more sophisticated and simpler to use. Now you can save long lists of favourite sites online and tag them with topics for easy searches. You can either keep those bookmarks to yourself or put them in the public eye and see what other people save.
We focused on three standouts. The text-simple interface and tech-friendliness of Del.icio.us has won over one million users, though newbies may wish it felt a little more fun. Because it's the most popular, however, Del.icio.us can show you that lots of folks are chuckling over, say, a baby toupee site this week.
Windows Live Favorites' options for social networking are limited to integration with Windows Live Spaces. We like that Favorites' colourful interface can display bookmarked pages. Microsoft's tool organises your bookmarks with subject tags as well as folders.
Diigo is the most useful tool for take-it-with-you research. It not only organises and tags bookmarks, it also lets you mark up Web pages as you would a paperback book -- with sticky notes, highlights, and comments -- then share those notes with others.
Other noteworthy bookmarking services include StumbleUpon, a dangerous time killer if you're trying to work. Click the StumbleUpon toolbar button, and it throws random Web sites your way; save and rate worthwhile pages yourself. StumbleUpon lets you fill out a detailed personal profile, as does Blue Dot, whose popular tags include design and music -- and which can be fed into your MySpace profile. eSnips is another neat bookmarking/social-networking hybrid.
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us lets you save, import, and tag bookmarks without fuss. As the most popular take-it-with-you bookmarking service, Del.icio.us can be a powerful tool for sharing content with other users.
Windows Live FavoritesWindows Live Favorites lets you save, import, and arrange bookmarks in subject folders, then view saved links without leaving the page -- but it doesn't hook you up with other users' favourite URLs the way Del.icio.us does.
Diigo
Diigo lets you save, import, tag, highlight, mark up and share Web pages -- offering more advanced research tools than Del.icio.us.
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