Your favorite online bookmarking service has crossed 50,000 registered users mark and I am very happy to share this news with you. As the regular users must have noticed, we are slowly rolling out new features and visual improvements and will be doing so in the coming days also. If you have not logged in recently, please do come back and check these out. You will be pleased.

We plan to keep this as the best place for storing your bookmarked and favorite sites with a very simple 1-click access. People love the 1-page organized layout and I hope, so do you.

Thanks for your support and for spreading the word about easyBM. We could not have reached this milestone without your active help. Please do let more friends know through Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites where you are active.

I got up today and got this unsolicited testimonial that made my day. Thanks Mahdi.

I appreciate your project and the outcome, I am so damn addicted to easyBM.com I keep recommending to almost everyone I come across.!!! Best regards, Mahdi Ali

Are you wondering how to open your favorite sites in a new window (or tab)? We have extensive facilities for this feature in the easyBM page. Here are some of the ways you can do this:

1. You can right-click on any link on your bookmarks page and choose "Open in a new window" or "Open in a new tab".

2. While adding the bookmark (or while editing the bookmark), you can specify that the bookmarked site has to be opened in a new window. Now a simple click on the bookmark will open it in a new window.

3. On your Profile page, you can select one the 3 options – a. open all sites in same window, b. open all the sites in a new window, c. use the saved setting. If you set the 2nd option here, all your sites will open in a new window always.

As you can see, you enjoy a vast variety of ways in which you can access your bookmarked sites with easyBM, your favorite online bookmarking manager.

We have some new feature enhancements in your favorite online bookmarking tool. These are:

• The first one has been requested so often. While we do have a provision to open any bookmark in the same window or a new window, users wanted to have a simplified way to set all of them to open in the same or new windows, specially when they had imported these. Now you can just head over to the profile section and specify your preference.
• You can now collapse all groups in 1-click. If you think you have several groups open and are wanting to simplify the view, just collapse all groups and then open selectively.
• You can also expand all the groups with 1-click. This is very useful when you are trying to locate a particular bookmark. Expand all the groups and press ctrl-F to search for your required bookmark.

I really hope you are enjoying the easyBM online bookmarking system and telling your friends and colleagues about it too. If you wish a certain feature were there, feel free to let me know by posting a comment here.

Firefox has released a new version, 3.6 and EasyBM plugin has been updated too. You can download the latest EasyBM plugin for Firefox here.

This plugin is very easy to install and lets you bookmark the page you are currently browsing very easily. Just click on the bookmark icon in the right side of the status bar and a pop-up window will open up. Choose the group where you want to add this site and edit the title and description. A simple click on "Save Bookmark" will save it for you.

Today I am very excited to share with you, a new development in easyBM online bookmarking service. Now you can access your favorite links from your iPhone or any other Smartphone with GPRS, Edge or 3G. You will get all your groups and be able to see the individual links therein for the good old 1-click access to the sites.

Have you ever wanted to visit some of your favorite sites with a mobile phone because you needed to check that important thing? Or as it happened to me recently, access your server control panel while in a meeting? I am sure you have felt the pain of having to remember that cryptic URL and type it on that cramped keyboard. Missed your desktop because you could just open your easyBM bookmarks page and clicked once to open the site? Now you can relax.

What's more – you don't have to remember a new URL for mobile access. Just visit your regular URL like www.easyBM.com/username and the system auto-detects that you are visiting the site from a mobile and redirects you to the special mobile version of the site.

I am sincerely hoping this will make your life a little simpler. If you enjoy the new feature or encounter a bug, please do write to us from the feedback section (only available in the desktop version – you don't want to type all that in your mobile).

You might be using the Firefox plugin to add online bookmarks to your easyBM account much more easily. If you have already upgraded or are planning to upgrade your Firefox to the latest 3.5 version, you should download the latest version of the plugin here. If you download the plugin through Firefox, it will automatically prompt you to install the same.

The Firefox bookmarking plugin to bookmark your site easily has been updated for compatibility with the version 3 of Firefox. You may uninstall the current plugin and download a fresh copy here. Just install it and use it. Have fun!

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.