There is a free new online service available in beta now called Wists. Developed by David Galbraith and Yaroslav Faybishenko, the site allows you to create bookmarks with thumbnail images from the site you’re linking to. You create an account an build your own collection of links. You can specify if they’re private and add tags to categorize these links. By default links are public and are added to the “everyone” collection of bookmarks (there is an “adult” tag check box as well - I haven’t figured out how to filter for that yet…). Your links are available online at a unique address to access anywhere or share with friends. You can even email your links to someone right from the site. Though in the early development stages, the idea of connecting a thumbnail image to a bookmark appeals to me because I’m a visual person. A few things I think they need to address:
- I need a search tool at the top of the page to look for tags.
- I’d like to see them remove the redundant left/right column of tag links. It’s confusing.
- Expanding the “more” links under tag categories makes the pages way too long.
March 1st, 2005 at 5:09 pm
There’s an extension for Firefox/Mozilla that adds thumbnails to del.icio.us — pretty much turning it into exactly what you describe. It also adds thumbnails to various search engine results.
March 1st, 2005 at 5:34 pm
Sounds interesting - can you provide a link to the extension - I can’t seem to find it?
March 1st, 2005 at 7:37 pm
It’s called “BetterSearch“. I’ve tried it in Firefox under Macos X, but presumably it would work on any platform. I’m not sure where I read about it.
March 1st, 2005 at 9:23 pm
OK - but that looks to be a little different. Seems like “BetterSearch shows you a thumbnail of the whole web page for search results, while Wists.com lets you keep bookmarks of any site and creates a thumbnail for the bookmark from any image found on the page you’re bookmarking.
March 2nd, 2005 at 9:03 am
Yea…I realized after leaving the above comments that the Wists.com version gave you control over the thumbnail.