The moment you see an interesting website, you save it to your bookmarks for future reference.
Thus, with time, you have created a huge list of favorites that’s not just long but is spread across different places like Firefox, delicious, Google Bookmarks, Opera, etc.
Though backing up favorites is easy but are they worth anything if the underlying web page changes or disappears off the web completely ?
You definitely don’t want to miss access to all these food recipes that you have painstakingly collected on the Internet over the past couple of months.
Now you could either save web page manually using these web clipping tools or a much better option is Iterasi - they have come up with a very elegant solution where you just have to upload a file containing all browser bookmarks and they handle the rest while you take a coffee break.
Iterasi create an archive of all web pages associated with your bookmarks and saves them permanently into your account so you always have access to all your favorite content. And the price is perfect - $0.
Archive Web Pages Automatically at Regular Intervals
There’s some more - Iterasi can also archive different versions of your favorite web pages as they change over time. For instance, if you CNN is your favorite website, you can do a "Daily" check and a new copy will be uploaded to your account each day so you can see changes across time.
Iterasi can either accept your local browser bookmarks or you can pass your del.icio.us credentials and it will fetch all your online bookmarks. For this to work with other online bookmark service like Yahoo! Bookmarks, ma.gnolia, Windows Live Favorites, etc - you’ll have to first export them local in the standard bookmark format.
If you ever used bookmarks to save links, this is definitely something your should not miss. Available on both Mac and Windows version of Iterasi.
Related: Build Your Own Internet Archive With Iterasi
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/permanent-archive-of-bookmarked-web-pages/4474/
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Reader Comments
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Written by fryevhen on 09.11.08
Thanks for sharing this information. I have more 20 000 links collected over years of surfing and I was looking for such an online service. What you didn’t mention is if iterasi has a links validation option.
Written by F. S. KAMAL on 09.11.08
I installed Iterasi in IE7 (XP) and it took 36 hours to upload 1900 bookmarks!
And ALL of them were made public so I had to trawl for hours through it’s clunky interface in order to set them to private (which is the way I prefer to use these services initially until I see how they work and what they have to offer more fully.
Written by M on 09.12.08
I wish there was a way to import the bookmarks offline in web browsers. I will check if iterasi does that.
Written by natalie on 09.12.08
Thanks to F.S. Kamal’s commnent on the heads-up re privacy. Lots of my bookmarks are sensitive in nature (financial accounts, personal matters, lifestyle issues, etc.) and the last thing I’d want is for them to be public. Also, I’m concerned that a new service will be here today, gone tomorrow, which would leave me in a lurch. I’d be much more interested in a service that interacts with my local bookmarks and helps verify link validity, etc. I know FireFox has some add-ons that check link validity, so I need to re-explore that. This article was useful, in any case, to remind me of the importance of keeping links up-to-date.
Written by Scott on 09.15.08