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Notes MSN or Yahoo! account and then invite them to your Bluedot network. You edit your profile
with information about your location and interests and add a photo or an avatar if you like. Of
these top 5 bookmarking tools only Ma.gnolia has a similar profile option.
You can choose to view your dots as a list (which is not very useful once you have more than 25
bookmarks) or as a list of tags. Each tag is displayed as a stack, showing the name of the tag and
the number of dots in it. There are no other sorting options, but there are plenty of options for
sharing: You can comment on your own dots or those of others or you can share dots by email,
and each dot has a permalink that displays name, rating, comments and more.
11.5.5 Furl

LookSmart’s Furl is one of the seniors of social bookmarking and definitely among the most
advanced. If you are serious about your online research, this is the tool for you.

Navigating among all of Furl’s features is easy — everything is stored behind four tabs. The tab
My Archive displays all of your bookmarks. All the essential tools are kept in a neat little box.
It lets you search your own bookmarks, all of Furl or the entire web. Drop-down menus let you
sort your bookmarks by tag, by date or both.
The bookmark list has lots of tools that make it easy to move, delete or email bookmarks, and
clicking on the Edit tool lets you store and edit all kinds of information. If you are a blogger or
a webmaster, code is available that will display your recent Furl entries on your website.

Furl is among the few services that store a copy of the whole web page when you bookmark it.
This can be a very useful tool. Unfortunately, no copies are generated for the imported bookmarks.
One can be encountered with a problem when importing bookmarks from del.icio.us: Bookmarks
with more than one tag had their tags melted into one, e.g. a single tag called
“google,searchengine_news” instead of the two tags “google” and “search engine_news”.

Task Create bookmarks using various social bookmarking tools and prepare a
presentation by showing the screenshots of bookmarks.

11.5.6 Netvouz

Netvouz is a powerful tool for social bookmarking. You can view and sort your bookmarks in
many ways — all bookmarks or new bookmarks, tag list or tag cloud, like many other
bookmarking services. You can also sort bookmarks by rating, date or name.

Netvouz is the only bookmarking service that lets you place groups of tags in folders that are
displayed high up on the page. You may also add “Hotpicks” — your most frequently used
bookmarks — that always are available on the very top. These features are of great help for
those of us who are storing hundreds of bookmarks online.

Netvouz also has an automatic link checker that regularly verifies that all your bookmarks are
valid and alerts you in case they are not.

The only downside is the community part. Nervouz has no support for recommendations,
friends or groups like many other social bookmarking services. All that is on offer is “New
public links” and “Popular tags” on the front page.

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