Bookmarking site script

A user can sign in to the site using any one of his open id.

Markit has an Open-Id feature to allow users to sign in using their Open-Id URL i.e. they don’t need to go through the sign-up form and create a new account.

We have a customizable index page, which can be configured with widgets consisting of links added under different media types like articles, videos, audios and images.

Users can add a bookmark and manage their bookmarks a little or a lot, under different media types like articles, videos, audios and images, and appropriate tags can be added for filtration purposes.

Users can mark links bookmarked by other users, to add them to their profile. Users can remove the marked link at any time.

Personal and account settings of users can be edited at any time.Users can represent them virtually by choosing appropriate avatar. Users can add photos to their page from the photo gallery.

Socializing with friends is so easy. Users can share their bookmarks with their friends and access bookmarks submitted and ticked by their friends. Also users can view bookmarks that are commented by their friends to know their interest and find out more about them.

Users can view bookmarks that are ticked mutually by them and their friends, and that are newly added by their friends. These features help users to access their bookmarks and their friend’s bookmarks in a single page.

Networking with friends is easy. Users can invite their friends using mail Id or import them from their contact list maintained in other networks like Gmail, Yahoo and MSN. A friend request will be send to their friend, and they will be added to their friends list only on acceptance.

Invite your friends to join Cann and help them get everything they want.

Commenting on bookmarks enables users to find about links easily and know what others think about the link. A hot list of bookmarks is listed in the side bar. The lists of the recently added and popular bookmarks are displayed.

Sharing bookmarks is the best way to get more bookmarks. Bookmarks can be shared with their friends and others. It is also possible to maintain bookmarks privately.

List of users who marked a particular link can be viewed.

If a user finds users with similar thoughts and interests, the user can subscribe to those users for receiving links bookmarked by them. In order to view links belonging to specific field or subject, subscribe to those tags. The bookmarks categorized under subscribed tags will be listed in user’s subscribed page.

Tagging bookmarks is a better way to organize bookmarks, and a great way to discover interesting things on bookmarking site. Organizing bookmarks will help managing large number of bookmarks with ease. The site enables users to view tags in list or clouds.

It is easy to access bookmarks submitted, marked, commented and subscribed by users separately. Making it much easier for a user, to view bookmarks submitted by him, bookmarks of other users that are marked by him, bookmarks submitted and marked by him, and bookmarks that are commented by him.

It lists all the links that are submitted, marked, commented, and subscribed by his friends.

Not only links/URLs, but users can also share photos with their friends or public. Also they can maintain private photos and access them from anywhere through the internet connected computer.

A photo added by the user can be cropped and set as his profile photo..

The site statistical report helps users to track their activity on site apart from knowing user details and site statistics. From user details, one can analyze total site members and know number of users those who are online. Users can get other details related to the site, like total number of links/URLs bookmarked and digged on the site, and total comments from the site statistics page.

If users have their favorite bookmarks in other bookmarking sites, they need not key-in all the details again. They can simply transfer that list into the site using the bookmark import feature.  Currently, users can import bookmarks from famous sites like del.icio.us and digg. 

It is also easy to export favorite bookmarks to Internet Explorer, Netscape /Mozilla and Opera. 

MarkIt has a built in free internal messaging system. Members can send mail, and have even more fun with MarkIt’s internal messaging system.

With this  you can search and navigate the Markit contents without first going directly to a search engine.

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers. Bookmarklets allow you to modify the way you see someone else's webpage, extract data from a webpage, search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine, navigate in new ways and many more.

It is build with Yahoo User Interface (YUI) widget API. MarkIt will generate a script for specific widget on request. Just place the script at desired place of your site, to add the widget through which users can retrieve links added in auto complete drop down form.

MarkIt makes it easy to convert a page content into the RSS feeds which is used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audios, and videos—in a standardized format.

Users can get updates of the recent bookmarks added depending on the media type in which it is added.

Users can add their contents as a widget in igoogle to get updates on their links. They can also add a widget to other sites, such as their blogs.

Nowadays people are slowly absorbing the essence of social bookmarking benefits. We know that Digg is one of the popular social bookmarking sites filled with millions of members, many web site links and blog posts.

As people are crowding towards the Digg site, we have integrated the Markit application with Digg to allow users import their activities like submitting stories, and friend’s stories and stories inside the containers to the site built using Markit. This action will definitely attract more users to the Markit site. For instance, if a user has a list of favorite sites on Digg, the user can import the list in to the Markit site using their Digg account. Thereafter users can directly access the favorite site list on Markit application in a couple of seconds without having to log into the Digg site frequently. This means users can save their time, and show their bookmarking activities in Digg to the Markit users as well.

Many people consider that Delicious is the magic toolbox to get targeted traffic to their site. It is not only a good resource to drive traffic to their site, but also a great way to keep track of their bookmarked favourite sites.

The Markit application is integrated with Delicious, to allow users import their added bookmark list from Delicious to the Markit site using their Delicious account. It helps these users show how they are active in Delicious, Markit site user.

Email has changed the way of communication. You can deliver your messages in a matter of minutes. It allows you to contact multiple users at the same time and to convey your message even without meeting them. Now, Markit comes with a new feature called ‘Post through mails’. Starting today, users can post links on the MarkIt site by just sending a mail to an email account specified in the profile page. User should follow a specific format as stated in the profile page. There is no need to log into the site every time to post links. Just compose a mail with the links to be posted and hit the send button and the site algorithm will carry out the remaining process.

The featured user algorithm generates the featured user list automatically based on the activity of users on the site. Admin can check the list and remove any user from the list at any moment as per the need. If admin is not happy with the contribution of any user, then admin can remove him/her from the featured list easily, so as to make the list filled with the truly featured members.
Listing a user in the featured user list will motivate users to participate actively on the site to get their name to this list or retain their position. Users’ participation is very essential for extending the community site life. Also through the list, site visitors can find users who consistently contribute good content to the site. This means users can find the good contributor easily from the featured list without going through the whole site.

Searching for desired information will always take much time. By simply typing a keyword phrase in the search box, you can get tons of stuff related to your search. It will be difficult to find the item which you are searching for. With the advanced search feature, you can enable your users to find the exact information by placing the code word before the keyword phrase in the search box. For instance, if they want to look for information regarding audio stories, just typing “-m” before the audio stories will fetch them the exact information about audios on the Markit site.

Social bookmarking services have matured and are becoming very popular day by day. It allows you submit links and stories, and vote or comment on submitted links and stories. You can add friends to your own network, and organize and manage bookmarks.
Markit contains the Bookmark spy feature which displays users’ activities on the site. If users carry out any activity like bookmarking links, commenting and voting on bookmarks, viewing links, tagging bookmarks etc, it will be automatically listed on the site. So users participating in the site can show how active they are and motivate other users to make their contribution to the site. If any user is impressed by other members’ activities, then the user will add them to his/her friends list and share their bookmarking works.