52 bookmarks sit in a jumble in my browser, a list of semiorganized chaos, but I'm not complaining. Folders slow me down, e-mail news alerts have supplanted some of my surfing and sites that I've stumbled across only to lose track of never seem to be more than a quick search away. Of course, a bevy of start-ups wants to change all that. You don't hear many complaints from people unhappy with storing their bookmarks in a browser. And as people start saving not just home page URLs but documents they want to look at later, the sites' power to organize and provide universal access to bookmarks will grow in importance, says Jonathan Abrams, CEO of Hotlinks and a former Netscape engineer.
Web addresses are harder to remember.
That may be true. Take the reporter I met who boasted of having Henry Kissinger's home phone number. He never called the man, waiting instead for the perfect moment when he just had to have a quote, but he protected the number like a Picasso. I doubt it. The idea of moving them to the Web falls in line with e-mail, calendaring and phone information, which have all moved to the Web in some capacity, but to me, those moves make more sense.