The popular social bookmarking service Delicious has been stagnating a bit since Yahoo purchased it, inspiring competition from the likes of Pinboard. Yahoo hasn't complete abandoned Delicious, though. An update today adds new search and sharing features and a "Fresh" tab that uses Twitter trends to find the most relevant links on Delicious.

Now, when you search on Delicious, you can specify a time frame to search, as well as sorting by tags. Previews from sites like YouTube, Flickr and Yelp should be showing up next to relevant bookmarks soon. On the sharing front, quick email and Twitter buttons have been added, so you can share in a couple of clicks, right from the link.

There are plenty of "read it later" options around - like Read It Later, for example. ListMixer provides another way to create non-permanent bookmark lists in any browser (leave a mix unatteded for 30 days, and it's automatically deleted).

Add the ListMixer bookmarklet to your browser, click it once, and your unique ID is created. There's no registration required to start adding links. Once your mix has been created, you can add sites to it by clicking the bookmarklet.

You can add a tag items to group them on your mix page. Only a single word or phrase is supported, but it's enough to get the job done. Tags you've used previously appear in a drop-down box when adding a new link. Descriptions can also be added to your items.

ListMixer also supports hotkeys: holding 1 down while clicking will add a page to your mix and immediately return you to that page. Holding 2 down automatically adds the page and then displays your mix. To view your mix without adding a page, hold 3 while clicking. If you'd rather just click away, additional bookmarklets are provided to perform the same actions.

An RSS feed is also provided for your mix, and there's also a handy tool for creating a linkroll to embed on your blog.

Readbag is a useful website for setting aside links to read later. You don't even have to sign up to use it - provided you have a Google account.

Add a bookmarklet to your browser and you'll be up and running in minutes. Quickly add websites and access your stored links later in a variety of different ways including on your phone, via email, your feed reader or in offline mode, and it has a built-in share system to boot.

You might be wondering how this differs from built-in features in your run-of -the-mill feed reader or a more organized social bookmarking system – and the answer is it doesn't. Readbag's saving grace is its simplicity. It doesn't strive to be more than just an easy way to save and share online content. It really come in handy when you're browsing on a mobile device. Add the bookmarklet to your mobile device's bookmarks and it works exactly as it would on your computer.

Iterasi, a bookmarking toolbar and web service we first mentioned in January, is now expanding its private beta. If you visit the site to sign up for an account today, there's a good chance you'll be let in almost immediately. At least that was our experience. Your results may vary.

So what is iterasi? It would be easy to dismiss the service as yet another bookmarking tool. You add a toolbar to your browser and you can tag and save pages to your account, which you can then access from any browser. But unlike similar services like del.icio.us, iterasi saves dynamic content. In other words, you can "notarize" a page like Download Squad, and the service will take a snapshot of the page as it looked the day you saved it. You can also use the service to save a copy of a custom Google Map, or take a snapshot of today's cover of the New York Times.

And since iterasi saves a snapshot of a page and not just a link, you can actually share the page as you saw it with other users thanks to some embed code.

Iterasi currently only supports Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. Firefox 3 support is coming soon.

Ever get the feeling you'd be a lot more productive at work if you didn't spend 3 hours a day on YouTube, and another 2 hours updating your Facebook profile? 8aweek is a new Firefox plugin that helps you keep track of thet time you spend on web pages. And if you need a gentle reminder that you just can't handle the freedom, you can tell 8aweek to restrict the amount of time you spend on certain sites.

When you install 8aweek and then reboot Firefox you should see a new browse toolbar. Click on the View habits and you'll be taken to a web page showing how much time you've spent on every web site while logging was enabled. 8aweek seems to know the difference between a page you're actively looking at and a page that's open in a background tab and will only log pages in the foreground. But it doesn't differentiate sub-sites. For example, Gmail and Google Reader are lumped together as Google. And since Download Squad's blogging client Blogsmith is hosted by our parent company, AOL, 8aweek reports that we've been spending a lot of time at AOL.com.

You can also click on the restricted tab to add pages that you don't want to spend too much time on. Then click the preferences tab to determine how much time is too much. By default, this setting is 30 minutes. There doesn't appear to be a way to set different time limits for different sites.

The browser toolbar also lets you "save" links to pages you want to come back to later. So you can use 8aweek as an alternative to Read it Later or Instapaper, but with a nagging/analytic feature.

[via TechCrunch]

While del.icio.us Spy might sound like the name of an upcoming Austin Powers movie, it's actually a new way to find web pages using social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Like the popular Digg Spy visualization tool, Ajaxonomy's del.icio.us Spy presents new links as they're submitted. Each link includes a thumbnail and buttons that make it easy to add a page to your own del.icio.us account, or to Digg or Reddit.

You can also filter results by keyword so that you're more likely to find links you're interested in. Because let's face it, people submit all sorts of crap to del.icio.us, which makes del.icio.us Spy a bit more of a crap shoot than Digg Spy.

But somebody should totally write to Mike Myers about using the name on his next movie as well.

[via TechCrunch]

Iterasi is a new bookmarking service that allows users to save dynamic web content. What does that mean? Once upon a time web pages were relatively static. If you wanted to see the content of a web page, all you had to do was enter a URL and up pops your news article, movie listings, or photo collection. But today more and more sites are packed with dynamic content which changes regularly while the page's URL remains the same.

For example, imagine you're searching Google Maps and you zoom in and drag the map around. When you bookmark the page, all you get is a link to the map you saw when you started. Or what about pages that are changing every day like Techmeme or the New York Times? Sure, you could bookmark pages for individual articles, but what if what you really want to save is the equivalent of today's front page of the paper?

You could take a screenshot of those pages, but once you save the text content as an image file, you lose the ability to search the page. And that makes it pretty unlikely that you'll be able to find that page again when you need it. Iterasi solves this problem (even if you didn't know it was a problem) by creating snapshots of web sites using a process the company calls "notarizing."

All you have to do is install a browser toolbar and click the notarize button any time you see a page you want to save. It will be saved in its current state to Iterasi's online service. The page includes active links, searchable text, and everything else you could need. You can find your content by logging into your account from any web browser. You can also add notes and tags to pages for easier indexing. And of course, you can share pages with your friends. Iterasi also includes a scheduling application for saving pages at regular intervals. So if you want to save the front page of your local paper once a day or 6 times a day, you can schedule automated backups.

[via Mashable]

If you spend a lot of time on the Internet then you've probably accumulated dozens hundreds of bookmarks. Here are a few Firefox extensions to help keep them -- and you -- organized.

Bookmark synchronizer Foxmarks is a must-have if you like to access your bookmarks from multiple locations. Install the Foxmarks extension on your laptop and your desktop PC, and whatever Web site you add to your bookmark manager on one machine will automatically show up on the other. You can also access your bookmarks via the Web from any computer with Internet access, no download required.

People who use the Opera Web browser often rave about its "Speed Dial" function, which allows you faster access to sites you visit regularly than searching through a long list of bookmarks. Though similar functionality isn't available natively in Firefox, there are a couple of extensions that get the job done. Speed Dial for Firefox places a button on your toolbar; click it to bring up thumbnails of up to nine Web pages whose addresses you've pre-programmed. Adding a Web site to the list is easy: simplfirefox; ffy right-click and select "Set as Speed Dial." Fast Dial does the same thing as Speed Dial, and also adds middle-click functionality and keyboard shortcuts.

If you like your browser's address bar to do your thinking for you, then take a look at Autocomplete Manager. This little extension checks what you type in the address bar for matching bookmarked Web sites; it even checks page titles and names you've assigned to the bookmarks in your folders.

Want to give your boring old bookmark folders a face-lift? Use Favicon Picker to decide what icon you want appearing next to each bookmarked Web site. Once installed, simply open Firefox's Bookmark Manager and right-click on a bookmark. Choose "Properties", then the "Browse" button in the Icon section. Select a .jpg to replace the existing default icon and click "OK".

New to the whole concept of bookmarks? Then make sure this is the first site you save to your Bookmark Manager.

Ever come across an interesting headline that you just don't have the time to read? If you're using Google Reader, you can just star an item to come back to it later. But if you're just browsing the web, you might want to mark a page for coming back to without going so far as to create a bookmark.

Read it Later is a Firefox add-on that lets you create a reading list from interesting links. Once it's installed, you can right-click on any web site or link to save it to your reading list.

The add-on also installs two buttons in your Firefox toolbar. You can click Read Later to save the page you're currently on. And when you click on Reading List you'll cycle through saved pages. Clicking the little black arrow next to it will bring up a list of saved stories.

When you're reading a saved page, the Read Later button turns into a Mark as Read button which you can use to remove pages from your list.

Sure, you could always save pages as bookmarks, add them to del.icio.us, or use Google Notebook to save pages for later. But we like the clean and easy to use interface of Read it Later. Of course, if your Firefox Toolbar is already overloaded with add-ons, Read it Later might add more clutter to your life, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Have your ever been randomly searching for something online, only to realize you closed a window and cannot for the life of you remember what website you were on? You might be able to check your browser history or use a bookmarking tool. But what if you want to share your browsing records and let other users see where you've been?

Hooeey lets you record eveyr site you visit. You need a hooey account and a browser toolbar in order for hooey to do its thing. The toolbar then tracks the sites you have visited in online folders allowing you to check out analytical reports and share links.

So if you are up for letting friends know where you have been, hooeey will gladly share your browsing patterns with them.

Here's what SugarLoving does right: the site clearly understands that sites like Digg and Del.icio.us have gotten so huge that it takes forever to wade through the cruft to find interesting things to read. Niche-driven sites like SugarLoving are a good idea because they offer a place for people with similar interests to congregate, instead of trying to be everything to everyone.

But the pink and powder blue hearts have to go.

It's hard to take the site seriously when it's awash in graphics like "i (heart) this" and the tagline reads "Link love." (Yeah, yeah...SugarLoving...hearts, love...we get it). It's overkill, though, and reads like an overblown Valentine's Day card.

On a purely technical note, we're surprised there's no way to bury or vote down a story but maybe since the site is still new, that feature is still to come.

The folks at Sugar, Inc. have a good idea with this Web site, if they could just tone it down a bit and realize that all women are not shallow, shop-a-holic clones. If SugarLoving beefs up the business and tech sections, and adds some sports and news categories, they'd have a site geared toward a greater cross-section of women -- and one that's more inviting that it is now.

The team behind del.icio.us has been feverishly redeveloping and scaling the application since yahoo purchased it over a year ago. del.icio.us has been building a new platform that speeds up the bookmarking process and enables it to grow without issues, adding more functionality and proper user interface design. Well, the time has come to let a select few inside the doors of the delicious preview to see what's hiding.

Notice there are no ".'s" in the name. Could they be taking the "web2.0" fad out and replacing it with a more mature application?

Let's begin with what's new. First off, the del.icio.us design has been revamped and looks totally refreshing. They have worked with users and gone over tons of feedback from the current site in order to build this new rendition. Complete with new links, navigation areas, sidebars and brand spanking new user interface design, any bookmarker will be happy.

Here's a rundown of the new goodies you can expect:

VentureBeat is reporting that Forbes Magazine is acquiring web bookmarking service Clipmarks.

It looks like the truth of the matter is a bit more complicated. Clipmarks CEO Eric Goldstein "clipmarked" the story himself and left some comments.

In a nutshell, Clipmarks has been in talks with Forbes and other companies about financial backing for the site. It does seem like a Forbes deal could be in the works, but Goldstein describes the VentureBeat article as "premature."

The odd thing about all of this is that Forbes is reportedly interested in buying the service because Forbes reporters use it to organize and share information. Eventually you could see Clipmarks used in articles at Forbes' web site. But do they really need to buy the company to do that?