| 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.[1]
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Linkwad (extension and server side) was first released on August 28, 2006.[2]
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.[2]
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.[2]
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.[2]
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.[3]
The most recent version of this service allows users to:
This lists some of the Linkwad advantages[5]