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For the Web user who jumps from page to page creating bookmark after bookmark, there may be an easier approach.

Imagine a site, with your own personal profile, where you could save all of the Web sites you visited within a designated amount of time, and/or pick up online researching where someone else left off. Well, it’s here, and it’s called iBreadCrumbs.

iBreadCrumbs was created to work along the same lines as DVR or Tivo for television, only for the Internet. After downloading it, it creates a simple toolbar that appears at the top of your Mozilla Firefox browser. It allows you to start recording Web sites when you’d like and stop when you are finished with your specific research.

Some key points about iBreadCrumbs:

• All of the sites you’ve recorded are put together into a folder, which you can name and organize.
• As soon as you push “Stop” the page with your recorded sites will pop open so you do not have to search for it, but you can also find it later by logging into your iBreadCrumbs account.
• Sites that weren’t helpful can be deleted from each list of recorded sites.
• BreadCrumb folders can be set as public or private and can be shared with other people and/or groups.

Jane Hart wrote a blog about the newly discovered iBreadCrumbs which includes their tutorial video. She explains that,

iBreadCrumbs is a Social Network for Researchers to Share Recorded URLs, Track Websites, Review Notes Online, and Encourage Online Collaborative Research.

It seems like a very good tool for personal use or to help/gain help from others when performing research. It will be interesting to watch iBreadCrumbs take off and perhaps become the leading site used for research organization and, yes, yet another tool for Social Networking (once they lose the cheesey logo, that is).

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