BookmarkWiz
Created by Koen Berkenbosch, aka Nossie, BookmarkWiz is a social submission tool that is a cross between the utilitarian Social Submitter and the feature packed Bookmarking Demon.
BookmarkWiz hides a lot of power under its deceptively simple user interface. Upon loading and activating, you are presented with a window with eight tabs. There are no menus or buttons; everything is accessible from the tabs alone. The only settings in the software are the fields for entering Decaptcher/BeatCaptcha keys.
I cannot stress how easy it is to use this software. It is a total cakewalk.
Account creation and verification is automated, so all you have to do is tell BookmarkWiz what email accounts you want to check for sign-up emails. Using a datasheet style window, you punch in the usernames, passwords and server information… And you are done.
Click the “Registration” tab and you will be presented with another datasheet window with all the email addresses you previously entered. To the right of it on each row, there are the username and password details, followed by a string of checkboxes to tell the software what bookmarking sites you want to sign up for. Just pick the sites and click the register button… And you are done.
To active your newly created account, when it is finished signing up, go to the “Accounts” tab, select the new accounts, click the activate button… And you are done.
Are you spotting a theme here? It really is that easy.
Finally, head over to the “Submit” tab, punch in your target URL, title, description and tags. These are all tied together with a spinnable text system so you can rotate the words that you use for anchor text etc. Press the submit button and the process starts, leaving you to either farm out captcha’s to an external service or solve them yourself with your own keyboard.
And that’s it.
BookmarkWiz is the program that Social Submitter wants to be. Easy, uncluttered and so simple to use that a brain dead idiot could use it. But since Social Submitter was released before BookmarkWiz, it is more likely that Koen took the potential in Social Submitter and put it into his own program, which is an astute move in my opinion.
But there is always a downside… Otherwise this would be the winner in this review.
The simplicity and elegance of BookmarkWiz comes with a price. It may be fast and easy to use, but part of the reason for that is because it is purposefully limited in the amount of sites it can bookmark to.
At last count, this application can only post to thirty-three bookmarking sites. There is also no way to add your own sites to the list, leaving it slightly crippled.
I can see why this has been done in order to maintain quality control, speed and ease of use, not to mention taking a load off the developer when it comes to updating the site database….
But thirty-three??
That is shameful compared to nearly every other program in this review. Only SEnuke comes off worse in this department, but since SEnuke does so much more than just bookmark, it sort of has an excuse.
Also, Bookmarking Demon has the edge in user account and project management. With the complexity involved in structuring mass social bookmarking, you really need a clear way to manage the information. BookmarkWiz simply ignores this with its simple simpleness.
And that is a dumb move in my book, because it will just take one smart developer to look at BookmarkWiz, take its potential and put it into their own program.
Bookmark Wiz: So much to love, yet flawed by its own simplicity.
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