As you have probably noticed, last month we launched a series of new features and improvements many of which were requested by you, our users. Some of the most notable were:

• Content filter that automatically filters content that is considered non-suitable for public audience
• Easier way to search Jumptag Extras (Youtube, Games, Wikipedia, Weather,…)
• Repositioning of “Make this Jumptag public” link on the Add/Edit Jumptag main tab
• New Firefox toolbar (v.0.9.0.0) that resolves a couple of minor issues of previous versions
• Addition of link to “My Jumptags” when logging in from the home page

In addition, after more than a year of ad-free operation, we have implemented banner ads throughout the site, launching in this way unique advertising opportunities that allow placement of banner ads even in Jumptags search boxes (including the toolbar search box).

If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to drop us a note at support@jumptags.com

Stay tuned! Major enhancements and new features are coming shortly!

New Jumptags toolbar (v.0.8.0.0) for Internet Explorer is now available.

The toolbar is compatible with:
- Windows Vista / IE7
- Windows XP / IE7
- Windows XP / IE6

You can install the new toolbar from:
http://www.jumptags.com/go/settings/toolbar/ie/install

If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to drop us a note at support@jumptags.com

Stay tuned! New updates are coming shortly!

Jumptag’s latest new features make Jumptags even more fun! To find out more, look at the list of new features below:

Feature #1 – Add Jumptags search on your website using Jumptags widgets

Add the Jumptags widget on your site or blog and allow your website visitors to search your Jumptags or the public Jumptags. See how at http://www.jumptags.com/go/widgets/

Feature #2 – 3D Slideshows

Browse your bookmarks, photos and videos in a 3D full-screen slide show using the PicLens browser add-on.

Feature #3 – Youtube search

Type “+y keyword(s)” or “+youtube keyword(s)” in any of the Jumptags search boxes (including the toolbar search box) to perform real-time searching for videos on Youtube.

Try them and let us know your comments or suggestions by dropping us a note at support@jumptags.com.

Stay tuned! New features, tools and updates are coming shortly!

Thank you for your continuing support.

The J-Team

Dear Jumptags friend,

We are happy to announce that Jumptags has just launched two new “Extras”. Looking for flash games or searching through Wikipedia? Jumptags can now assist you…

+games
Type “+games keyword(s)” in any of the Jumptags search boxes (including the toolbar search box) to get a number of matching flash games to play.
Example: http://www.jumptags.com/tag/%2Bgames

+wiki
Type “+wiki keyword(s)” in any of the Jumptags search boxes (including the toolbar search box) to perform real-time searching on Wikipedia.
Example: http://www.jumptags.com/tag/%2Bwiki%20social%20bookmarking

Try them and let us know your comments or suggestions by dropping us a note.

Stay tuned! New updates are coming shortly!

Thank you for your continuing support.

The J-Team

Dear Jumptags friends,

New features have been just added. Have a look below…

Feature #1 – Photo & Video Jumptag types

Jumptags.com now supports two new Jumptag types: photo and video. Go ahead and bookmark your favorite photos and videos, wherever they are located, and enrich your Jumptag collections with photo and video resources.

Feature #2 – More RSS

News RSS feeds have been added for all tags, keywords or phrases in public Jumptags. Search for a tag or keyword and subscribe to the corresponding RSS feed to stay up-to-date as new Jumptags are added.

Feature #3 – Firefox toolbar update

A new version of the Jumptags toolbar for Firefox (v0.7.0.0) is now available. Make sure you update to or download the new toolbar.

More features

A number of minor performance and interface enhancements have been implemented to make Jumptags faster, friendlier and more productive.

We would love to hear to your comments and suggestions. Please drop us a note…

More features coming soon…

The J-TEAM

Jumptags.com has just received a face lift.

The major changes include:

Jumptags.com has just released the much awaited “Personal web space” feature where one can find all your public jumptags and collections published on your very own personal page, http://www.jumptags.com/{Yourlogin}

You can see real examples of personal web pages of current users in the Hall of fame.

Thank you for your support.
More exciting features on the way!

The J-Team

I’ve been following posts about Jumptags around many popular blogs and it’s clear that it’s really started to pick up! Although the jumptags.com site still lacks help and documentation, most users who “invested” a bit of time exploring Jumptags have figured out how to use it and are posting their own findings as to why Jumptags is “beyond” Social Bookmarking.

KillerStartups - Social Bookmarking on Steroids
Download Squad - Jumptags, a little ahead of social bookmarking

There are a lot of posts explaining how Jumptags lets you collect, manage, store, share and distribute bookmarks, rss feeds, notes, skype calls and do other cool stuff with your online resources. Yes, the interface looks good, it’s fast and yes it’s much easier to manage your bookmarks with Jumptags than with any other bookmarking service, but is that what Jumptags is all about? And why is it called Jumptags?

There is one very powerful feature in Jumptags, the one that I think sets it apart from other services and that is quite simply the ability to actually find what you bookmarked! It may seem obvious that the purpose of bookmarking a site is the ability to get to it at some time in the future. Yes, of course there is the social aspect of it – sharing and exchanging bookmarks- but isn’t it equally or sometimes even more important to be able to find a site you bookmarked? Especially when you can’t remember it’s name, address (who remembers those anyway?) or in web 2.0 speak the “tags” you used to bookmark it?

Tags are cool - they let you organise what you bookmark in loose hierarchies. Collections are also useful as they provide an extra level of meaningful grouping. But are tags and collections the best way to actually get back to what you saved?

Welcome to the Jumptags Search box! (or search boxes actually, since you can find it on both the Jumptags.com site and the Jumptags toolbar).

Once you start typing inside the Jumptags search box you will notice that results are immediately visible. Auto-complete functionality is becoming quite common but this one has an added “touch of intelligence” in order to help users narrow down the search results displayed, then simply select and finally press the “enter key” to jump to the bookmarked resource. (Is the term jump-tag making more sense now?). The more words you type, the more relevant the results you get. This is because the search terms you type are not taken as a phrase but as individual keyword searches. The search engine will look for matching entries containing all the individual keywords you type, and it will look everywhere: tags, collection names, page titles, urls, descriptions and keywords.

The more terms you type, the narrower the results. Once you are down to a few, point and click to the one you want and jump to it! That’s all there is to it. Sounds simple, but only Jumptags does it this way.

Typing “goo stats” lets me jump to my Google Analytics account

At the end of the day, the search box can become a sort of DOS command line, as our good friend Matthew blogged the other day [http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=454]. I am planning to write a separate post on the inner-workings of search, how weights are applied, and how you can turn Jumptags into a command line tool, so stay tuned.

All I wanted to do was to draw your attention to the importance of “getting to” or jumping to bookmarked resources. I think it’s one of the areas that sets Jumptags apart from “the rest” and what makes it a real productivity tool.

Dear friends,

Public section is now live. Feel free to publish make your Jumptags and Jumptag Collections public and share them with friends.

The J-Team

Dear all,

Jumptags.com beta is now live!
Enjoy!!!

The J-Team