Posted on: Tuesday, March 6, 2001
Blink.com a place to store 'bookmarks'
By Vicki Viotti
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Web can be so wonderful and so aggravating at the same time. You’ve just happened on an Internet address so fab that you’ve added it to your bookmarks (or “favorites,” depending on the terminology of your current Web browser).You’re trying to find it again, but wouldn’t you know it: The file containing that magical address is on your work computer, a World Wide Web away from home.
Back to the wonderful part, again. Here’s another fabulous site, an easy-to-remember address that will keep you from forgetting all those others.
Blink.com is like an online storage locker for Web bookmarks, walking you through the process of importing those bookmarks from any computer you use.
The site makes it fairly simple to keep the repository fully stocked, providing e-mail and one-click ways of adding new bookmarks to your “locker” at Blink.
The beauty of this is that you can access your favorite sites, even those with indecipherable Web addresses, from any computer hooked to the Internet.
It’s a free service, and like all cyber freebies, this one is loaded with ads and promotions. (Back to the aggravating stuff, again.) So be careful when you’re registering to click off invitations to e-mail newsletters and other items that you don’t want. If you haven’t become practiced in picking your way through such Web land mines by now, you probably haven’t logged many bookmarks, anyway.
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