john-23things

I'm choosing Blummy (Honorable Mention: Bookmarking) as the site I'd like to spotlight. Many of the Web 2.0 services that we've evaluated as part of the 23 things program use what are called "bookmarklets" to enhance the features of the service. These sit on the links bar in your browser. At the most simple, they're bookmarks that will link to another website. They can, however, be more complicated than that.

• There's a bookmarklet to grab images off the web & drop them in your Flickr account.
• Feedburner offer a bookmarklet that gives you quick access to your subscriber stats.
• Bloglines have a bookmarklet that allows you to subscribe to a site's feed with one click.
• LibraryThing have a bookmarklet to place content in your LibraryThing account when you're viewing it on Amazon. (3rd item under "booklists")
  
• Rollyo have a Rollbar bookmarklet that keeps your searchrolls handy
  
• There are tons of bookmarklets for Del.icio.us, like this, and these, and er, this.... Some are for viewing content. Others suggest tags or make bookmarking easier.
  
• There are also loads of bookmarklets to make tags on Technorati.
  

You get the idea. Web 2.0 tools use bookmarklets all the time. See more on Bookmarklets.com. Whoa, Nelly! There's no more room on my links bar....

Enter Blummy! Blummy provides a way to organise these bookmarklets and keep them neat on your links bar. Why not take all those bookmarklets and store them together in, er, a bookmarklet. Blummy is very intuitive and simple, but makes browsing neater & more straightforward. You simply log in to Blummy, choose the bookmarklets that you want in your toolbox, (or write your own if you're so inclined) then drag a specified link to the links bar of your browser, where it will sit quietly until called upon:


When you see a page that you'd like to work over with some bookmarklet mojo, click the blummy link to pop up a lime-green box of bookmarklety goodness from your links bar. Then select the bookmarklet that you want to run.

Neat, tidy, tidy & neat. Blummy is useful for keeping a selection of web 2.0 tech tools handy but hidden, and for building an accessible addition onto your browser's links bar. All good stuff.