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JigJak. It’s a new bookmarking site with a funny name, offers no new features, and it’s design and site navigation is rather poor. It’s most useful feature, however, may be the ability to import your bookmarks from other services, as well as your browser. This in effect makes your browser bookmarks accessible no matter where you are, or what computer you’re using, as long as you have internet access. It’s like a less scary version of Hooey’s automated service.

Beyond this, JigJak offers little more. Adding bookmarks can be done with its browser plug-in, or manually on the site. You can then organize your bookmarks by categorizing them as a favorite, or a mobile favorite. The display of an actual search query for bookmarks will reveal a thumbnail image of each website, along with the person who recommended it, and options for voting it up or down.

It would be nice to also see other users that have added this to their list of recommended sites. There are RSS subscription options for any search query, and you can add users to your own network to keep up with them as well.

Unfortunately, the focus isn’t always on bookmarks. On the homepage, you may not feel like you’ve just landed on a social bookmarking site. It feels more like a web 1.0 news resource. But look a little closer and you’ll see that bookmarks have been organized by category. Click on one of these, and you’ll actually begin to see some bookmarks on the site.

Subsequently, the user profiles have the majority of the page dedicated to your basic info, with your recommended sites and tags displaying towards the bottom of the page. One major thing that’s lacking on JigJak so far are personal recommendation tools.

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