To continue with my reviews of the various bookmark saving services lets cover a few more services.

Furl

Furl allows its users to have a public and private portrayal of their bookmarks.  The “Public View” is not only aggregated with all of the other public views into a single “headliner” style feed, but is also accessible via a simple URL www.furl.net/members/membername.  One interesting functionality that Furl provides is its auto-mimic of TinyURL.com.

Google Bookmarks

I am not sure if Google is abandoning this service, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.  Not because the service is lacking, but because the service provides easy ways to export and “delete all” bookmarks, but no apparent way to import them.  I found it quite interesting.  With the installation of the Google Toolbar, using this service is easy, but without it, the service is pretty bare.

Link A Go Go

My initial impression of this service is that the UI is cluttered and busy making it difficult to navigate.  Despite the uncleanly interface, it has good features.  Importing bookmarks from delicious or any major browser is simple and efficient.  A unique feature of the this service is its “Site-see” functionality.  linkaGoGo provides a gallery that preview each bookmark with the ability to navigate them via Next and Previous links.  This service needs a little work but has promise.

Ma.gnolia

Magnolia, among the sites that I am reviewing, may have the cleanest UI.  When adding a new bookmark, Magnolia makes it very clear what your existing Tags are via Cloud and List representations.  You can also rate your favorites from no-rating to 5 stars.  In addition to contact support, Magnolia offers groups that you have join or just review their list of bookmarks.  Everything about this service has a Del.icio.us “feel” to it including its dot-notation name.  It is a fantastic service and  could be considered the graphic lovers alternative.

In an effort to make it easier for my reader to add my blog posts to their favorite favorite keeper, I had to investigate many different services to decide which I was going to support directly.  I decided that I would make further use of my findings and add an analysis of each one that I reviewed for your benefit.

Backflip

Backflip is a simple Bookmarking service.  The homepage features hot topics, public directory, and a featured Backflipper.  I think Backflips best features is their “Daily Routine” feature.  It allows you to setup a batch of bookmarks which allows you to review them in your specified order with the click on one button.  This is clearly a site that concentrates more on being a site than being a bookmark repository.

Blinklist 

I have nothing noteworthy to say about this site.  I have only listed features I was able to extrapolate without being signed in because I was unable to successfully make it through the signup process.  I will continue to try to get an account and will report back.

Blogmarks

Blogmarks is a service that issues accounts by invite only.  When I receive account credentials, I will review this service fully.

Del.icio.us

Delicious is one of the three Yahoo bookmark services that I am reviewing.  Delicious was acquired by in 2005 and is a very well known bookmarking services.  Delicious’ site design is simple and easily searchable.  User searches are as easy as navigating to http://del.icio.us/username.  Locating a user’s bookmarks by a tag is as easy as http://del.icou.us/username/tagname.

Digg!

Digg main focus seems to be its users’ votes on the popularity of sites.  Saving a bookmark that has already been saved before will associate your bookmark with the previously saved bookmark, thus bumping its “Dugg” count by one.  You still have the personal bookmarks saved and can share bookmarks with your friends, but the main claim to Digg’s fame is ranking.

Diigo

Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) is probably the most underrated least known about bookmarking services one the market today.  In addition to fantastic support for bookmarks, Diigo supports partial bookmarks called “Sticky Notes”.  The Sticky Note feature allows the user to select a section of a web page and bookmark the selection.  Another special feature that Diigo sports is its ability to forward new bookmarks to other bookmarking services making a transition to Diigo from another popular service less of an initial commitment.

Fark

Fark is so different from every other service I reviewed, it is really more of a site than a service.  Fark is plays to a niche that focuses on users submitting “not news” article bookmarks.  It is a refreshing site that is very laid-back with a touch of sarcasm.  Fark shares its featureset with other bookmark services and should not be discounted.

Faves

Faves (formerly Blue Dot) has a full featureset.  One feature that stood out to me was the ability to assign topics to your Faves Home page which will filter the stream of users’ bookmarks by the topics your selected.  Faves also has private messaging between friends.  A fine service.

Stay tuned for Reviews on Magnolia, Furl, Google Bookmarks and more…