BookmarkSync was an automatic synchronization service that allowed users to access their

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or favorites from any computer or

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. The BookmarkSync client ran as a small program within the computer's

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and it monitored the bookmarks in the user's browser, automatically uploading any changes to a central server. This allowed one to keep browsers across separate synchronized computers.

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synchronization is possible by using the

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client. BookmarkSync was discontinued around 2006.

History

SyncIT.com Inc. was founded b
Michael Berneis
and Terence Way in November 1998 and the website went live in March 1999. At its peak, SyncIT.com grew to a community of over 350,000 users synchronizing their bookmarks and favorites using BookmarkSync product. After a server failure in September 2003, the entire project was

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d. The rights for SyncIT.com were taken over by Jack Dean, who ran Sync2It.com and BookmarkSync.com. He had developed a new client for the latest browsers including

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and Mac platform, and continues to work on this service.

Features

The BookmarkSync client software enables

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and bookmark

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. The user data input requirements of web-based systems incorporate tagging to build a folksonomy, are eliminated by the automated BookmarkSync client software. Sync2It.com has added bookmark clustering and user bookmark ratios to their search results. Recent enhancements to the BookmarkSync client software include support for Unicode, fast search and locate, local backup and restore functions, local site validation, social bookmark browsing and multiple language support (German, French, Danish, Dutch, Czech and Spanish). The BookmarkSync service is free.

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External links

* {{Official website Social bookmarking

History

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