I was recently going through the new sign-ups for this online bookmarking service and was amazed to see more than 95% sign-ups are with a Gmail account. Has Gmail surpassed all other email providers by such a huge margin?

While I can understand that most of the people sign-up with a free email account fearing that we may spam them (which we don’t as the existing users can tell you), this statistic did come to me a big surprise. Do you agree that Gmail is now the most popular email service or you or you can think of some other reason why I am seeing so many sign-ups with gmail.com addresses?

Recently I was approached by an EasyBM user who wanted his bookmarks in a RSS feed form. I was surprised at this request because easyBM bookmarks are private bookmarks and I was not clear as to why should he need them in the form of a RSS feed.  Of course, I have some ideas for using these feeds but are these the same that you have in mind?

Do you need this RSS feed too? Can you think of a way to use this feed? Do remember that the feed will be password protected (accessed by providing the username and password as part of the feed URL). You can either give your request through the feedback option or by putting a comment on this post.

On popular demand, we have now released a Firefox plugin (xpi file, download here, 12 KB) that helps you add bookmarks to your favorite sites very easily. If you are browsng with Firefox, you can just download this file and then drag and drop over Firefox to start the install process. You can also right click on the saved file and open with Firefox. Please save your work in the other windows before doing so, because it requires a restart of the browser.

Once the easyBM extension is installed, you can add the page you are presently viewing to your easyBM bookmarks by simply right-clicking anywhere on the page and selecting Add link to EasyBM. You can provide a title and description, and indicate the group to which you want to add this link. You can also click on the small graphic in the right side of your status bar (the graphic looks like the easyBM icon) to directly bring up the Add to bookmarks dialog box.

I sincerely hope this will help you use the easyBM system much more easily and make it as quick to add the favorite links as it is to visit them.

Please feel free to leave your comments, feedback and bug report by adding a comment below or use the Feedback option in your EasyBM menu.

A few days ago, PHP version upgrade on the server made the EASYBM service go down for a few minutes. While I was grappling with the technical issues of getting the service back up, this unsolicited comment from Arie (an easyBM user) cheered me up and made my day:

My apologies for disturbing you with this request, but it seems that the EasyBM.com service has become inoperable today. When I log in to the site - as I do every day, because as you may remember from our previous correspondence I am a very satisfied user of this fine service! - I get the following error message:
  
<technical mumbo jumbo…>

I hope there will be an easy solution for this problem, because living without EasyBM would be a great loss of productivity!

And Arie sent me this note a few days after the service was restored:

Just a quick note to thank you for bringing the EasyBM service back into full operation. This really is a fine product, and I felt thoroughly handicapped when we had the short service interruption earlier this week - which really shows to what extent I have integrated it into my daily activities…..

Thanks for the notes Arie and I will do my best to keep this service in full operation always

I have seen a lot of registrations recently that look spammy. These have names like genericpills01 or seomaster47 and once registered, they (are they human?) do not add any sites to their bookmarks page, ever.

1. In view of this, we will add some extra checking to the registration page which might be like jumping through an extra hoop for the genuine users. I sincerely apologize for this but it is needed to make sure that we can continue to offer the services to real people like you.

2. We are also going to make it compulsory for people to add at least one favorite site to their bookmarks page, within 2 days. Why else did you register my friend, if you do not want to add 1-click browsing to your arsenal? All accounts without a single bookmark for 2 days will be deleted.

Note: Your account is safe and free for life if you are using it regularly and have at least 1 bookmark added to your account.

If you have been using our free online bookmarking service, you might have noticed the new option Feedback in the top menu. This is where you can let us know what features of our service you like and/or dislike.

If you want us to include a new feature, you can tell us through this option only. Feel free to be frank, I get to see all responses directly and we will be happy to include any popular ideas.

I want to take this opportunity to request you to invite your friends to use EasyBM to bookmark their favorite sites. This way they can also 1-click for quicker Internet travel.

New feature alert: Now you can open all the sites bookmarked within one group by clicking on the group name. Thus, you can add a new group called Daily and add the few sites that you need to access everyday morning.

Once you click on the Daily group name, all the sites under this group will open in new windows. If you want to open these in new tabs instead of new windows and you have a browser that supports tabs, you can configure your browser to open new windows in new tabs. This way you can maintain some order.

Note: If your group has more than 10 bookmarked sites, you will get a warning about this. You can go ahead or abort at this time.

After lying low for a long time, we have a new logo and home page look. The users’ personal bookmarks pages have been updated too. I would really appreciate if you can take a minute to tell us how you liked it (or disliked it) and what new things you will like to see?

We want to help you bookmark your favorite links easily and quickly and 1-click to these sites when you want.

Hi

I want to announce our most important update in the recent times. We have implemented the multi-column, multi-row stacked layout that will make this bookmarking tool extremely useful for the most demanding user.

For quite some time, I have been worrying about the wastage of space in the lower half of the screen when your groups have few sites each.

I have been silently testing a layout that will help reduce this space wastage. This multi-column, multi-row layout helps you to squeeze many more links above the fold, thereby making it easy for you to 1-click even more sites.

How to get your groups stacked for better organization

You have to be a little adventerous. While we are working on an easy interface for this, you will have to play a little with numbers for now.

- First you must login to your easyBM page with ‘Remember me’ ticked.

- Now enter this in the location bar (or address bar) ->www.easybm.com/stackform.php

- You will see a screen like the following ->

We want to have Forums group in the 2nd column at the top, so I put 2 in column and in row fields. Now I want Blogs group in the same column but after Forums. So I put 2 in column and 2 in row fields.
Similarly, you can see how we implement stacking in the 4th column. You may have noted that column 3 is missing. Actually the numbers have to be in ascensding order but all numbers do not need to be present.

There you are. If you are feeling adventerous and want to make the best use of the screen space, you can implement stacked groups and 1-click to many more sites.

Note: This post is made in a lighter mood and you may skip it without any problems

We have this site put up on the HEDIR forum for reviews and a nice lady, Aunt Renee  recently mentioned that EasyBM sounds like an acronym for easy bowel movement.

While this is an amusing comment, I want to assure you that we will continue to offer an Easy BookMark service only and do not intend to offer products for easing your bowel movements