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18 Feb 2006
Bookmarks and webpages
When looking at various bookmark client manager, I realised that they use different approaches to the referenced web-page. For me a bookmark is foremost a reminder of something interesting out there. I might add some comments why I found it interesting and some tags so that I can find it back.
Some Clients offer the possibility to view the web-page that is bookmarked. And one notices a problem right away. The original page is gone. In that case the value of creating a bookmark is not high. I should have archived the web-page. And indeed there are Clients that do this. I guess that is a good option in the case one values the information on the web-page.
Sometimes however one creates a bookmark for remembering the site. The site is then the bookmarked object. And then the user should have the option to open the site in a browser. Even then an archive of the web-page might be useful for quick reference. And maybe thumbnails of the archived web-page are useful.
One should however take care in not mixing the functionality of a bookmark manager and a web-browser. A bookmark manager can manage much more than just web-page bookmarks. One can think of any MicroContent Object here. But maybe I am too puristic here.