Linkwad
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Linkwad is a free community-based social bookmarking service provided (at the moment) exclusively for Mozilla's Firefox web browser
, as an add-on.
Linkwad allows users to "save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads". A Wad is actually a group of links that are saved under a name. This Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer.
The idea was to create a community based social bookmarking to allow users to avoid a lot of time searching for a specific subject. Using Linkwad users quickly get a bunch of links related to a specific subject.
At the time the extension saw the public for the first time with version 1.0.1 having only 10Kb
(little less than half of its current size). On October 23 another version was released but was only on December that several improvements were made in two new releases.
On February 28 was added support for managing multiple wads within a single window and support for opening Google Images and Ask.com
search results in tabs allowing, this way, users to do things a lot more quickly with this extension. This release also approached Linkwad to the Firefox legion of power users.
The 1.5.1 version saw release on October 7 and allows users to customize keyboard shortcuts as well as see open wads in toolbar and drag & drop tabs between wads. On this same date a new server side was also released. Users can now rate the wads that will help other users to choose which one is the best.
On April 18, 2008, version 1.5.2 was released solving the problem of selecting unsaved sessions with mouse. This resolution also revealed that the existence of switch button (that switched between wads) is now useless. Firefox 3
beta 4 is now supported.
A version compatible with the new Mozilla
's browser, Firefox 3
, is already available. Users, however, are still expecting to see some improvements that have been suggested by them.
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
, as an add-on.
Linkwad allows users to "save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads". A Wad is actually a group of links that are saved under a name. This Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer.
History
Linkwad (extension and server side) was first released on August 28, 2006.The idea was to create a community based social bookmarking to allow users to avoid a lot of time searching for a specific subject. Using Linkwad users quickly get a bunch of links related to a specific subject.
At the time the extension saw the public for the first time with version 1.0.1 having only 10Kb
Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Although the prefix kilo- means 1000, the term kilobyte and symbol KB have historically been used to refer to either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes, dependent upon context, in the fields of computer science and information...
(little less than half of its current size). On October 23 another version was released but was only on December that several improvements were made in two new releases.
On February 28 was added support for managing multiple wads within a single window and support for opening Google Images and Ask.com
Ask.com
Ask is a Q&A focused search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine...
search results in tabs allowing, this way, users to do things a lot more quickly with this extension. This release also approached Linkwad to the Firefox legion of power users.
The 1.5.1 version saw release on October 7 and allows users to customize keyboard shortcuts as well as see open wads in toolbar and drag & drop tabs between wads. On this same date a new server side was also released. Users can now rate the wads that will help other users to choose which one is the best.
On April 18, 2008, version 1.5.2 was released solving the problem of selecting unsaved sessions with mouse. This resolution also revealed that the existence of switch button (that switched between wads) is now useless. Firefox 3
Mozilla Firefox 3
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008 by the Mozilla Corporation.Firefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. This version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements many new web APIs compared to...
beta 4 is now supported.
A version compatible with the new Mozilla
Mozilla
Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....
's browser, Firefox 3
Mozilla Firefox 3
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008 by the Mozilla Corporation.Firefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. This version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements many new web APIs compared to...
, is already available. Users, however, are still expecting to see some improvements that have been suggested by them.
Features
The most recent version of this service allows users to:- Open and manage multiple tab sessions within a single browser window.
- Open search results from Google and Yahoo in tabs with a single keystroke.
- Keyboard shortcuts available (and customizable).
- Share your Wads with the world
- Open your wads anywhere as long as you have Linkwad.
- Pick up other shared wads and make them your own.
- Access the links contained in Wads from any browser using the Linkwad portal.
- You can rate Wads on the Linkwad portal
Advantages
This lists some of the Linkwad advantages- One of the biggest advantages of the service is that when you are searching for a specific subject you will always get a group of pages related with that specific subject.
- The ability to continue what you're browsing in multiple computers
- Organizing your tabs by groups/themes
See also
- Web 2.0Web 2.0The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
- Social bookmarkingSocial bookmarkingSocial bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....
- Social softwareSocial softwareSocial software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a...
- List of social software
- List of social bookmarking sites
- Social mediaSocial mediaThe term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
- User-generated contentUser-generated contentUser generated content covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles...
- Collaborative tagging