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If you are one of those people who use multiple browsers or computers to store or save your favourite bookmarks, then SiteBar is the perfect place for you. SiteBar is a free (we all love this word…don’t we?) online bookmark manager. This means that you can save your bookmarks from multiple browsers or computers on the SiteBar server and can access them from anywhere you like. With its availability in more than twenty different languages, no wonder SiteBar is known as the web’s largest bookmark server!

SiteBar as a bookmark manager allows you to synchronise your bookmarks from multiple places. And thus, it eliminates the need to carry your important bookmarks with you anywhere you travel. It’s not completely like other social bookmarking services that allow you to find people with similar interests etc. but is does give you facility to share your bookmarks online with multiple user groups.
As a bookmark manager

Let us now take a look at what all things SiteBar can do for you as a bookmark manager.

The most important thing that it does for you is that it is compatible with or can be integrated with most of the standard browsers that we have today such as the Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera etc. It also features side bar integration into different web browsers.

Another important feature of SiteBar is that it allows you to import and export your bookmarks from various browsers and modifies them accordingly for you so that you get the maximum compatibility for all your bookmarks.

To keep your bookmarks fully under control, SiteBar bookmark server is now an ‘open source software’. It is published under GPL i.e. the General Public Licence. Thus, you can run your own SiteBar server and maintain and control your bookmarks yourself. Apart from this, if you wish to control the access to your bookmarks by others, you can use features like e-mail verification and/or administrator approval. You can grant access to your bookmarks to different individuals, to different groups, family, team etc. Or if not this, then you can always keep them as ‘private’ and safe.

You can also create various different bookmark folders and you can even convert them into a feed and that too in a variety of formats if you wish to. RSS feeds can be easily used if you wish to find out what bookmarks have been added to which SiteBar folders. Link news can also be shown for each folder.

For the sake of its users, SiteBar offers a variety of additional options such as drag and drop, plug-ins, custom sorting, folder hiding, skinnable interface, internationalisation, multi-user or group access, hit counting, link validation, favicon cache etc.

One cannot really compare the social bookmarking sites to SiteBar. They quite differ in terms of what they have to offer its users. There, possibly, can’t be any verdict as to whether this SiteBar is good or bad. If you like it and if this is able to fulfil all your requirements, then you are most welcome to use it.