Google Bookmarks

Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders.

The service allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes.

Labels and notes are searchable, and users can access their bookmarks from any computer by signing in on one’s Personalized Homepage.

Google toolbar has tools enabling a user to easily create bookmarks and quickly access them. Bookmarks can also be created manually from the web interface, or by use of third-party tools such as Firefox extensions created for the purpose of managing the user’s Google Bookmarks account and keeping them synchronized to the browser’s bookmarks.

A simple javascript function labelled Google Bookmark is created on the Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar, which opens a window to save the bookmark to the Google Bookmarks. This same function can be imported into the Internet Explorer Favorites (IE7) and placed in the Links folder, which can be opened as a toolbar.

Unlike del.icio.us (owned by Yahoo), which is a social tool to share your bookmarks with the community, this service is only for personal and private use with no option to share bookmarks with others, and no option to see what is popular in others’ bookmarks. Nevertheless, many websites will encourage bookmarking to Google Bookmarks through third party buttons on their sites, knowing that Google’s search engine keeps tabs and considers these bookmarks significant in the results for public search.

Bookmark – computing

In computing, the term bookmark is generally used to refer to either:
* A stored web address or file name for quick access, used by web browsers; or
* A location in a document, used by word processors.

Bookmarks are Web page locations (URLs) that can be retrieved. As a feature of all modern Internet web browsers, their primary purpose is to easily catalog and access web pages that a user has visited or will visit, by name rather than by address (URL).[1] Saved links are called Favorites in Internet Explorer. By virtue of the browser’s large market share, the term Favorite has become synonymous with Bookmark.

Bookmarks have been incorporated since the Mosaic browser[2] in 1993. They are normally visible in a browser menu, and stored on the user’s computer. A folder metaphor may be used for organization. In addition to bookmarking methods within most browsers, many external applications exist for bookmark management.

With the advent of social bookmarking, shared bookmarks have become a means for users sharing similar interests to pool web resources, or to store their bookmarks in such a way that they are not tied to one specific computer or browser. Web-based bookmarking services let users save bookmarks on a remote web server, accessible from anywhere.

Other recent developments are the use of macro programs that handle the complete login sequence, such as Roboform, ScrapBook or iMacros.

Bookmark lists were called Hotlists in the 1993 Mosaic web browser and in previous versions of Opera (see this image for an example); this term has faded from common use.

Live bookmarks were introduced in Mozilla Firefox in 2004. These resemble standard bookmarks, but contain a list of links to recent articles supplied by a news site or weblog, which is regularly updated via Web(RSS, etc) feeds.

Each browser has a built-in tool for managing the list of bookmarks. The list storage method varies, depending on the browser, its version, and the operating system on which it runs.

In Netscape-derived browsers, bookmarks are stored in the single HTML-coded file bookmarks.html. This approach permits publication and printing of a categorized and indented catalog, and works across platforms. Bookmark names need not be unique. Editing this file outside of its native browser requires editing HTML.

In Internet Explorer, Favorites (also “Internet Shortcuts”) are stored as individual files named with the original link name, and the filename extension .URL, for example Home Page.URL. They are collected in a directory named Favorites, which may have subdirectories. Bookmark names must be unique within a folder. Each file contains the original URL, and Microsoft-specific metadata. Browsers have varying abilities to import and export bookmarks to favorites and vice versa.

Bookmark Biosphere Reserve

The Bookmark Biosphere Reserve is a 9000 km2 area of land in eastern South Australia, adjoining the states of New South Wales and Victoria. It is one of 12 biosphere reserves in Australia and is part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, being officially recognized and listed by UNESCO in 1995. It is composed of several mainly contiguous properties that, although having different ownerships and different management purposes, have the joint aim of identifying approaches to ecologically sustainable development in a low-productivity landscape with many shared land-management problems. It is located in the Murray Mallee and the Riverland with the native vegetation predominantly Mallee woodland and shrubland, but also including wetlands and riverine communities along the Murray River. The flood plains of the reserve are recognised as internationally significant wetlands for migratory birds under the Ramsar Convention. Bookmark is involved in Australia’s national recovery plan for the endangered Black-eared Miner

Bookmark’s many component properties include conservation reserves, forestry and game reserves, national trust land, pastoral leases and private land. The largest of these are:

* Calperum Station
* Chowilla Regional Reserve
* Danggali Conservation Park
* Gluepot Reserve
* Taylorville Station

Bookmarks – MAGAZINE

Bookmarks is a bimonthly American literary magazine dedicated to general readers, book groups, and librarians. It carries the tagline, “For everyone who hasn’t read everything.” Launched in 2002, Bookmarks summarizes and distills published book reviews and includes articles covering classic and contemporary authors, “best-of” genre reading lists, reader recommendations, and book group profiles. It was named a “Best New Magazine” shortly after its debut by Library Journal.

Kurt Vonnegut also weighed in on one of the earlier issues; the September/October 2003 issue, which featured a profile on Vonnegut’s life and works, prompted him to describe Bookmarks as “the first publication to summarize my career as a writer.” “I am beguiled by your physical beauty,” he continued, “and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write. News of the hour indeed!”

History of bookmarks

Bookmarks were used throughout the medieval period,[1] consisting usually of a small parchment strip attached to the edge of folio (or a piece of cord attached to headband).

As the first printed books were quite rare and valuable, it was determined early on that something was needed to mark one’s place in a book without causing its pages any harm. Some of the earliest bookmarks were used at the end of the sixteenth century, and Queen Elizabeth I was one of the first to own one.

Modern bookmarks are available in a huge variety of materials with a multitude of designs and styles from which to choose. Many are made of cardboard or heavy paper, but they are also constructed of leather, ribbon, fabric, felt, steel, wire, tin, beads, wood, plastic, vinyl, silver, gold and other precious metals, some decorated with gemstones.

The first detached, and therefore collectible, bookmarkers began to appear in the 1850s. One of the first references to these is found in Mary Russell Mitford’s Recollections of a Literary Life (1852): “I had no marker and the richly bound volume closed as if instinctively.” Note the abbreviation of ‘bookmarker’ to ‘marker’. The modern abbreviation is usually ‘bookmark’. Historical bookmarks can be very valuable, and are sometimes collected along with other paper ephemera.

By the 1860s attractive machine-woven markers were being manufactured, mainly in Coventry, UK, the centre of the silk-ribbon industry. One of the earliest was produced by J.&J. Cash to mark the death of the Prince Consort in 1861. Thomas Stevens of Coventry soon became pre-eminent in the field and claimed to have nine hundred different designs.

Bookmarks produced by Thomas Stevens are called Stevengraphs. Stevengraphs first appeared around 1862. Woven silk bookmarks were very appreciated gifts in Victorian days and Stevens seemed to make one for every occasion and celebration. One Stevengraph read: All of the gifts which heaven bestows, there is one above all measure, and that’s a friend midst all our woes, a friend is a found treasure to thee I give that sacred name, for thou art such to me, and ever proudly will I claim to be a friend to thee.

Most nineteenth-century bookmarks were intended for use in bibles and prayer books and were made of ribbon,woven silk or leather. By the 1880s the production of woven silk markers was declining and printed markers made of stiff paper or cardboard began to appear in significant numbers. This development paralleled the wider availability of books themselves, and the range of available bookmarkers soon expanded dramatically.

Bookmark – BOOKS

A bookmark is a thin marker, commonly made of paper or card, used to keep one’s place in a book and so be able to return to it with ease.

Other frequently used materials for bookmarks are leather, metals like silver and brass, silk, wood and fabrics. Many bookmarks can be clipped on a page with the aid of a page-flap.