Review: Online service by Print(fu) allows PDF social bookmarking, a la del.icio.us.Do you remember bookmark exchanges, those (in retrospect) charming exchanges of browser bookmarks between friends and colleagues? I'm talking about the 1990s and before, when the floppy disk was, well, still floppy, and the idea of social networks still involved grabbing a drink at the corner bar.
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Bookmark exchanging was the practice of either e-mailing your browser bookmarks to your friends, or copying them to disk and physically handing them over. It was a fun way to see what everybody else was checking out. It was Mix tapes for computer geeks, in a way. Fast forward to last year, when del.icio.us became popular for its social bookmarking service: Bookmark a site via their site, give it a tag, and share it with everybody else. All of a sudden, you have a bird's-eye view of a linking ecosystem.
Yummy! Personal PDF Library is the same thing (it even looks like del.icio.us), except it's limited to PDFs. The site began June 25, and within five days it had 56,000 page views and 23,000 unique visitors, according to founder Brandon Corbin. Not only can you bookmark the location of your favorite PDFs, you can browse the most recent links to PDFs, see the most popular PDFs, and order printed copies of the PDFs via the associated Print(fu) service.
If you're not a Google keyword and search master, or if you want to get a feel for the online PDF landscape, check it out.