Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Box Bookmarks Now Featured in AddThis, AddToAny and ShareAholic

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We’re all about making it easy to organize and share documents and media online, but what about managing the resources you find on the Web? As you know, Box has a built-in feature that lets you save bookmarks for research reports, articles, and other key online sources you want to reference or share with others. We’ve teamed up with popular link-sharing services AddThis, AddToAny and ShareAholic, making it even easier for you to save interesting web links directly to Box.

How does it work? If you already have one of these link sharing buttons on your web page, Box.net will now be available in the drop-down menu along with other sharing services like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg.

When you click on the Box button, you’ll be prompted to confirm the URL, name and description of the bookmark, also designating its location from a drop-down menu of your Box folders. You can even add a comment, giving fellow folder collaborators a heads-up that they should read this article or check out this event. From your Box folder, just click on the bookmark and you’ll be taken directly to the bookmarked web page.

You can also download the browser add-ons for AddThis and ShareAholic so that you can bookmark any web page in your Box folders. An integration with Read it Later is also launching soon, and we’ll also be debuting a toolbar feature in the near future, so stay tuned.

Adding this to your own site or blog
You can also add the Box Bookmarks button to your own website or blog, making it easy for visitors to share the content on your site with their colleagues. Just visit the Box Bookmarks developers page and grab the code to embed the button on your web pages.

Whether it’s an Excel sheet or an interesting article on the web, managing and sharing all your important content is even easier than before. Send us a tweet @boxdotnet or comment to let us know what you think.

  • http://www.berryforms.com Ariel Segall

    Dear Friends At Box :

    As usual you do not stop surprising me with your innovative ideas of integrating your open Box.

    One suggestion if I may

    It would be fantastic if you could also grab a picture from the web page ( same way you grab description and page name ) when you are bookmarking with Box.net or even now with AddThis.

    Congratulations

  • Court Kizer

    Can you please add the javascript code, so we can put this in our bookmark bar, and click it on any site we are visiting. This will allow us to bookmark sites that don’t have this button or service. You already wrote most of the code.

    If you do something like this
    javascript:function%20loadScript(scriptURL);

    It will allow us to click “Bookmark” straight from safari or any browser’s bookmarks bar!

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