Linkwad
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| Linkwad | |
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| URL | http://www.linkwad.com/ |
| Type of site | Social content website |
| Registration | Free |
| Owner | Linkwad. |
| Created by | Nick Fridrich |
| Launched | August 28, 2006 |
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.
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[edit] History
Linkwad (extension and server side) was first released on August 28, 2006.[1]
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 it's current size). On October 23 another version was released but was only on December that several improvements were made in two new releases.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1]
On April 18 2008, version 1.5.2 was release 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 version of Mozilla's brand new browser, Firefox 3 - still at beta stage - is expected by users. Users also expected to see some improvements that have been suggested by them.[2]
[edit] 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).[3]
- 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
[edit] Advantages
This lists some of the Linkwad advantages[4]
- 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
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Fridrich, Nick. "Linkwad History", Mozilla Addons, March 26, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Linkwad Suggestions", Tabgrouper, March 26, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Keyboard Shortcuts", ffextensions.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ Johnson, Scott. "Linkwad Advantages", scottjohnsonflorida.blogspot.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
