A Directory Of Bookmark Managers
Here’s the beginnings of a directory of social bookmark manager/taglike storage facilities. That’s a mouthful, but the list isn’t:
- furl: The blurb: Save a personal copy of any page on the Web with a single click. Search the full text of your entire archive in an instant. Share what you find through email, RSS or your own site, automatically. See what others are saving and discover new, useful information. Access your archive from any computer, anywhere. It's free to sign up, and quick and easy to install
- del.icio.us The blurb: 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.
- Spurl The blurb: Spurl.net is a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows you to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find on the web from any Internet connected computer.
- Spurlbar The blurb: The spurlbar is an extension for FireFox, which lets you to use spurl.net bookmarking service easily.
- flickr The blurb: almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
- Simpy The blurb: social bookmarking and personal search engine
- StumbleUpon The blurb: a network of people and pages. It is a free tool which helps you browse, review and share webpages while meeting new people.
- Powermarks The blurb: Bookmark Manager and Personal Search Engine
- Netvouz
- FavoritesFinder
As ever, suggestions for more gratefully received.

Since most of these are so similar, do you have a favorite when it comes to a personal, import-export-able bookmark keeper? This is as opposed to Flickr, delicious, Stumble, and any other social-centric systems.
Posted by: Nick Douglas | January 28, 2005 at 08:59 PM
Here's another one for your list: Feedmarker (www.feedmarker.com) - it's an RSS/Atom reader + bookmarks manager with tagging.
Posted by: bruno | January 28, 2005 at 10:09 PM
Great idea!
Here are a few more:
Simpy
http://www.simpy.com/simpy/Splash.do
OpenBM (I assume 'BM' stands for bookmarks...not the *other* BM)
http://www.openbm.de/index.php
Unalog
http://unalog.com/
Posted by: Bren | January 29, 2005 at 12:44 AM
Whoops...forgot Jots. Hit post too soon...
Jots
http://www.jots.com/
Posted by: Bren | January 29, 2005 at 12:44 AM
I've been using Compass as a bookmark manager since 1999 (an eternity in the computer world). While the author (daniel@softgauge.com) hasn't updated it in quite a while, it is both very useful and stable. I use the "merge from" feature to synchronize my home and office bookmark files. Right now I have about 4,000 bookmarks. My only gripe is that since I moved it to XP, it reports many active sites as dead links, so the automatic purge dead links feature doesn't work anymore. Otherwise, it's quite useful.
Posted by: Dave Thomson | January 29, 2005 at 04:52 AM
Delicious doesn't let you export links nor upload them, I believe. It will let you get your links via the REST API, though. Spurl lets you post to Delicious when you add a link to Spurl. Furl will export and upload. Simpy lets you export, upload, as well as import your links and tags from Delicious. I don't know about other ones.
Posted by: Otis | January 29, 2005 at 05:45 AM
I've used Nextaris.com and Pluck.com, but far prefer Furl. Best part of Furl is the recomendations function. They've also emailed me back regarding customer service questions.
Posted by: Mdog | January 29, 2005 at 09:11 AM
I use Pluck (www.pluck.com), not only does is it manage my bookmarks, but is my RSS reader, as well. It can also track eBay items and google searches. No, I don't work for them :)
Posted by: csandoval | January 29, 2005 at 09:37 AM
try http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com/ it works well for me
Posted by: peggy | January 31, 2005 at 03:54 PM
www.SiteJot.com is the online bookmark manager I use. Works well for me.
Posted by: John | January 31, 2005 at 10:48 PM
I just switched from PC to Mac and now the only way I can access my 5800 URLs in Powermarks (a Windows only app) is to use Virtual PC. Have you come across a way to get the URLs out of Powermarks and into a web-based URL service with keywords retained yet?
Posted by: David Brake | February 27, 2005 at 08:01 PM
There's also SaveThis (www.savethis.com) that's worked well for me, except for the lack of export options. The foldering is quite nice, and I have tons of links stashed in there now!
Posted by: Steve | March 08, 2005 at 09:50 AM
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Posted by: Pogolon | May 09, 2005 at 02:30 PM
The best bookmark manager I found so far is BookmarkMagic at http://www.bookmarkmagic.com/
You can import/export bookmarks in a variety of formats including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, XBEL, RSS and more, share bookmarks with others, integrate the service in your web browser for fast and easy access, etc.
It's free and you can test it before signing up by logging in as:
E-mail address: demo@bookmarkmagic.com
Password: demo
You don't have access to all features as a demo user so sign up if you like what you see. The service is free.
Posted by: Mats Bergsten | May 22, 2005 at 04:49 AM
I've used some, they're all pretty much simular. I liked http://www.bookkit.com/. It has a tracking feature, which is quite nice. It has a synchronizer, but it only works for IE.
Posted by: Kie | July 16, 2005 at 02:38 AM
http://www.bookmarkmagic.com/
Posted by: NETmoz | November 13, 2005 at 04:58 AM
There is a new bookmark service at a1-webmarks.com.
Looks nice.
Posted by: Otto | October 14, 2006 at 04:01 AM
If you prefer to keep bookmarks in-house but need to synchronize them between browsers - give a try to Bookmark Base (http://www.bookmarkbase.com).
This tool is portable so you can easily deploy it on USB drive and carry anywhere.
Posted by: Alexander | November 10, 2006 at 12:15 AM
You can see also this portable bookmark manager:
http://www.portable-bookmarks.com
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Posted by: JOHN KERRY | March 08, 2007 at 06:07 PM
try Power Favorites. It is a tag based bookmark manager. The product page is http://www.desksware.com/bookmark-manager.htm.
Posted by: Mark Stone | May 12, 2007 at 01:04 PM
Another Bookmarking site
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Posted by: indya | June 07, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Love this blog... it's not really a blog, is it? Not that I know what the definition of a blog is. More I sense what it isn't. And 'Loose Wire' isn't of any of these: ego-centric, idiosyncratic, eurocentris, (but very 'silly-UK-villagecentric')overtly ideological or political (except for being anti-spin, but isn't any text-based representation of something non-test is going to have spin ... and let's not confuse spin with lies), puerile, unprofessional, badly written, poorly formatted, abrasive, adversarial, arrogant (mostly), preachy, moralizing, corrupting, sleazy (no surprises when you click something - there ought to be law ! well, a star system like energy efficient devices have for a website's level of being free of sneaky links and malware etc). And Loose Wire is not insulting to the intelligence or average, every day sense of ethics. Can't say many blogs are devoid of such impediments. But, hey, that's not why I write. Just wanted to suggest that lists like those for bookmarking programs, outlining programs etc would be 2000 percent improved if the freeware programs in the lists were indicated by something as unobtrusive as an asterisk. Any chance? It would save a lot of repetitive strain injury and - who knows - probably reduce carbon emissions if people didn’t surf to 10 pay sites before finding the free one. Cheers! p.s. I only partly jest about reducing emissions by reducing ke strokes and mouse clicks! Some boffin will calculate the comparative energy costs of running a computer in different modes. Microsoft could help reduce key strokes by including the following terms in its word dictionaries etc: blog, bookmarking and powerpoint (Doh!) to name a few.
Posted by: Greg Clough | July 29, 2007 at 02:42 PM
OnlyWire dot com and GetBookmark dot com are 2 very handy tools (free of charge). They each allows u to submit to about 15+ bookmarking sites all at one go. But, u must first create your account with each bookmarking site. This can be quite tedious and boring. The other 2 drawbacks are the sites listed are quite limited (some in the list are not even working) and it does not allow u to use keyword phrase as tag.
For those who are seriously looking at tapping the power of web 2.0 social bookmarking sites to generate good traffic and back links, u may want to do as what I have done => invest in software to automate the job. The one I am using right now is pretty neat. It has more sites listed compared to OnlyWire and it can create accounts for u automatically. It also accepts keyword phrase as tag and let u create multiple profiles so that u do not leave too much footprint on the net in case u are accused of spamming. The best part I like about it is that the software gets updated almost every single month to keep in pace with the latest development of some of the bookmarking sites.
Posted by: Janelle (Social Bookmarking Software - FREE Tool) | January 16, 2008 at 10:11 PM
I'm going through these directory listings you place one of the next. This is another quality directory, and a great time saver for me!
Posted by: quality directory | January 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Do these all basically have the same functionality?
Posted by: Chairmats | April 30, 2008 at 09:27 AM
Here is another social bookmarks manager www.nadiz.com
Posted by: vicvic | May 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Thanks for the list. It saves me a great deal of time.
Posted by: Vietnam Tour | September 29, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Thanks for the bookmark list. It saves me a lot of time.
Posted by: Vietnam Holidays | September 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Look at this bookmarks manager for IE, Firefox and Opera browsers. You can synchronize you bookmarks between browsers and any computers. Program work on USB Flash Drive.
Look at Screenshot:
http://www.vscsoftware.com/Images/screenshot/PortableLinkCollector.jpg
Posted by: Paul | October 30, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I've been using BookmarkMagic as a bookmark manager since 2007 (an eternity in the computer world). I belive it's the best one of the modern world. I use the "merge from" feature to synchronize my home and office bookmark files. Right now I have about350 bookmarks.
Posted by: Madison - Iphone | January 12, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Thanks for share
Posted by: Blogger Indramayu | May 23, 2009 at 08:03 PM
Have you tried using Yahoo/Google tool bars; both allow you to add/import your bookmarks? You can use these bookmarks from any computer once you log into your Yahoo/Google account.
Posted by: Studio photography | June 14, 2009 at 03:43 AM