Looklater
Like many social bookmarking sites, Looklater was made by one guy as an attempt to save his own bookmarks. Eventually, he decided to extend the service to everybody. Looklater’s site has a blog that exhaustively documents the whole development of the site.
Looklater is a free service that is constantly backed up offsite so you don’t have to worry about losing your bookmarks. It will always be available, and has grown by leaps and bounds since it was first started. The code was written in PHP, the framework is MVC and the backend is MySQL.
Does that confuse you? No need to worry, because Looklater wasn’t designed for tech geeks. It was designed for you and me, so it is simple and easy-to-use. You don’t have to download any software. The site gives you a “bookmarklet,” which is a button that is saved on your browser. Click it and you’ve saved a site or image to your bookmarks.
When you find a site you like, you can tag it. Your profile saves all your tags so that you can search for them again later. It also saves what you saved on your calendar, so if you ever find yourself saying, “What was that site I was looking at Tuesday,” you can answer your own question easily.
You have to be logged in at first in order to get the necessary cookies. If you don’t do that, the bookmarklet button won’t work. Also, Looklater doesn’t work with Safari because it doesn’t let bookmarklets use an outside script.
Looklater is always open to suggestions and ideas. If you have a feature you’d like to see added to Looklater, just email the webmaster and they’ll see what they can do. They really like to work on the system and make improvements.
While you don’t have to be a computer geek to use Looklater, most of the most popular stuff on Looklater is computer tech stuff. This means that if you have a high tech website or product, Looklater might be a good place to promote your business. Watch out, though, because they’re pretty tough on spam.
Unfortunately, you can’t browse Looklater until you’ve made an account. They do have a tutorial you can watch to get an idea of how the system works. Bookmarking is fairly simple, and the tutorial walks you right through it.
