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In what can be called the era of social networking and bookmarking, this website ‘Bookmark Sync’ surely has a place of its own. This is mainly due to the fact that this website not only gives its users an opportunity to bookmark their favorite webpages, share them, save them and tag them but it also allows you to synchronize them (bet you guessed that!)

Synchronizing Your Favorites

Nobody ever sits on the same PC every time. And it’s obviously possible that you might come across a webpage that you would wish to add to your list of favorites when you are not working, browsing or surfing the net from your own computer. This is exactly where ‘Bookmark Sync’ comes into use. Whichever browser and whichever PC or whichever operating system you use does not matter. This is because when you run Bookmark Sync on any system, another small program gets located on your desktop task bar that monitors the browser. And thus any changes are automatically made to the central server. In this way all the bookmarks get synchronized. This site scores above its rivals on this very point. The others store the links onto the server and if the server goes down the accessibility to your favorite bookmarks is lost.

Synchronizing from every PC is allowed, but the glitch remains that when you subscribe to Bookmark Sync, it allows you to bookmark 100 or less number of times and that to only from three different PCs. However, if you wish to bring into use more than three PCs, the subscription price varies accordingly.

Bookmarking is fine and is possible using any of the social networking sites. But, ‘Bookmark Sync’ offers its users something more than that. Not only tagging is possible using this website, but tagging clusters is also possible. Bookmark Sync helps you to organize and classify your similar kind of a data under a same cluster and bookmark them as it is. Features like the provision of bookmark ratios, in order to search results, or the software supporting multiple languages or facility of local backup or easy restore of data etc. also makes Bookmark sync unique.

The credit for this website goes to its founders- Michael Berneis and who founded it in November 1998 and it was made available to the masses in March 1999. Sadly after a server failure in September 2003, this website was open-sourced and is currently managed by the source code repository company ‘SourceForge’. Currently the rights of this website lie with Jack Deans who also runs Sync2It.com.

Bookmark Sync has over the years successfully catered to its customers. They have paid the highest amount of attention to the privacy of the users i.e. sharing of their stuff is not possible unless one authorizes it. So this site does prove to be worth a try. You never know, this might just be that perfect social networking and bookmarking site that you have always been looking for!