What are BookMarklets?
BookMarklets are basically tiny software programs that add even more functionality to your browser toolbar. Many popular Web sites are creating bookmarklets for many different things: sharing content, adding tags, etc. Here are a few of the best free Web bookmarklets that I use on a daily basis.
Free Web BookMarklets
- Reddit BookMarklets: Instantly share your content with the Reddit social bookmarking community.
- Digg This: This bookmarklet allows you to Digg from any website; just drag and drop the link to your browser toolbar.
- del.icio.us BookMarklets: You have two bookmarklet options available here; you can post the page you're looking at to del.icio.us, or you can quickly view your cache of del.icio.us bookmarks.
- Sub With Bloglines BookMarklets: Bloglines is hands-down my favorite RSS feed reader. Whenever I come across an interesting site that I would like to keep track of via RSS, I just click on my handy dandy Bloglines Sub bookmarklet and it's added to my list of sites.
- Technorati BookMarklets: I add good stuff to my Technorati favorites by one click of a button. And speaking of Technorati...
- Technorati Tag Generator: If you have a blog, and would like to use tags to make it more searchable in Technorati, just drag and drop this bookmarklet link to your browser toolbar. When you click on it, you'll be prompted to write in tags, and the bookmarklet will generate HTML coding for you to insert into your blog post.
- del.icio.us Randomizer: This bookmarklet is probably not as useful as some of the other ones I've posted here, but it's just so much FUN. Once you plop this button on your toolbar and start clicking away, you'll be taken to random sites selected by other del.icio.us users. Warning - not all of these are safe for work or younger viewers.
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