Publish Your Yahoo! Bookmarks

Give the gift of your accumulated links to the world by publishing your Yahoo! Bookmarks to the Web.

Part of the fun of using the Web is being able to share where you’ve been with others. The fact that any web site can be connected to any other web site via a link is one of its defining features. On weblogs, a list of links to other weblogs is called a blogroll, and there’s even a web service called Blogrolling.com that helps people organize and publish these lists of links. Since Yahoo! Bookmarks is basically one big link repository, you’re already using it to store and organize your favorite links. The only piece missing from rolling your own blogroll or link directory is publishing your Yahoo! Bookmarks for the world to see.

If you log in and view your Yahoo! Bookmarks at http://bookmarks.yahoo.com, you’ll notice an Export Bookmarks link toward the top of the page. This feature is primarily used for transferring bookmarks between Yahoo! and your browser. But because the Netscape bookmark format is an extension of standard HTML, you can use the export file to publish your links. To get the file, choose Export Bookmarks Netscape (for Windows) “Click here” to export it. Once you have the bookmarks.html file on your desktop, you can upload it to a web server, where anyone can view it.

This process takes only a minute or two, but you wouldn’t want to do this each time you added a bookmark, changed a bookmark, or reorganized your links. With a bit of ...

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