Share multiple sites with a single link - Sqworl looks interesting

I used to be a regular user of Krunchd.com which let you add the links of 10+ websites to a single 'place' so that you could then share a single link. That link would present visitors with a drop-down menu containing all the links you'd shared, you could cycle through the URLs and the relevant page would load - it was great, but the Krunchd website now appears to be permanently down.

There are a few alternative sites but one I've found to be pretty good is Sqworl which lets you combine several pages together into a 'group', shown in a grid format with a thumbnail for each site added (see screenshot below).

Here's one I've just created - London Useful - which acts as a 'meta-bookmark' for some of my favourite London pages, including travel pages and some cultural stuff.

Sqworl's an interesting site. Plenty of people seem to be using it, though from what I can gather they're filling it up with crap. When I searched for London I found that quite a few people had created a page with only a single link on it, which points to a company's site. I'd say they were doing it wrong, although by creating a page which has another pointer to their site they're probably doing something useful in terms of search engine optimisation. But Sqworl does seem to have an awful lot of these otherwise useless pages, though I don't think it has any impact on my own page(s).

As I see it, this site lets you share several pages at once, lets you add a comment (the text below the thumbnails in the screenshot above is from me) and also - importantly - shows a thumbnail icon of the page. I think this is a really helpful visual cue.

I've been looking for this since 2009 ;-)

Fingers crossed it doesn't go the same way that Pageflakes and Krunchd.

Krunchd - multiple URL crunching, a bit like TinyURL

Krunchd is a website that lets you take a bunch of URLs (up to 30 I think) and 'crunch' them into one URL for sharing (hat tip @PhilBradley).

I'm a fan.

It isn't perfect - I'd like the number of URLs you can add to be more than 30 but I expect there has to be a practical limit. I don't really like the mess which sometimes appears at the top of the page (see this example http://krunchd.com/RDBs) and I'd like to be able to 'reverse engineer' the list of URLs to excise them from the drop down menu... (eg from other people's Krunchd URLs) but apart from that it's really very useful.

The one below was created when I worked in the area of grant application reviewing. I kept a collection of online databases where I could find people working in related areas - it's one part PubMed to one part social media for scientists I think. There are many different ways of finding suitable reviewers, and I would use all of them at my disposal (knowledge of the field, suggestions from those in the field, serendipity, cited authors, Google, PubMed, in-house contacts databases etc).

Here's my collection which has been viewed nearly 800 times.

http://krunchd.com/FindReviewers



The drop down menu, enlarged:



If you think I've missed one, let me know @JoBrodie

Sharing websites pictorially - how can I do this?

In Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari I can click on a button that will show me a grid view of the tabs I currently have open or my recently visited (favourite) websites, as below.

Microsoft Internet Explorer tabs (full size below)


Apple Safari recently visited / favourites (full size below)


I would like to be able to create a series of these pages, with different content, that can be shared with others.

For example

• recommended diabetes sites for healthcare professionals (which would include Diabetes UK's professional pages and NHS Evidence - diabetes among others)
• my favourite skeptical / science blogs
• useful library resources

Incidentally, if I wanted to share my Safari favourites, or the IE tabs I had open is there an URL I could uncover that would let me do so? If not, that's the sort of thing I'm after...

I've previously had a play on Pageflakes believing that this service would let me do that but I didn't find it straightforward. It's certainly true that you don't have to restrict yourself to their presets and can put in pages of your choosing, however they all seem to be RSS newsfeeds - for updating purposes. I don't want this, I just want the homepages.

There is useful diabetes info here, but it's very text based, and it's just updates http://www.pageflakes.com/bell.library/21584955/

I'm a big fan of the 'corporate ID' of a page - its logo, and the way it's set out and this is usually what cues me in to knowing that I'm on the right page! It's easy to see from the pictures above what pages are open when I took the screenshot.

My ideal system would let me input a number of links and it would automatically grab the homepage (the ones above are personalised to me cos I'm logged in) and produce a new page for me with miniature windows for each link already embedded. Something similar is krunchd.com which lets you input a series of links and it will give you a single link in return.

Visiting your new krunchd link will open a page containing a drop down menu with all your pages in and you can move through them, and each new page is presented within a frame. Example: http://krunchd.com/FindReviewers (viewed over 670 times... ).

Is this something I could do on Google Wave if I had any clue how to create something on Wave, and also had access to it? Or does anyone know of something else that would work - I don't think Netvibes does this either.

Microsoft Internet Explorer tabs


Apple Safari recently visited / favourites