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Bookmark Button  So! Intelligent Tagging for the Mac User  by
Giles Turnbull  Editor's note: In this article, you'll learn
about, a glorious, minimalist, tag-tastic bookmarks database. It
was designed to be a "large-scale outboard memory," with added
sharing smarts. It works like this: you take all your digital
stuff--mainly URLs now, but color definitions and audio files
have found their own special homes on the site too--and throw it
into your account. Thanks to tagging and searching, you can find
your stuff easily later. And you can find other people's stuff
too. Here's what you need to know.  Try to think back to the
early days of the Web. Back when browsers were a new thing.
Imagine what a great idea it was when somebody said: "Hey, let's
make a system that lets people remember the URLs they've been
to; we could call it bookmarks or something."  In those days
your bookmarks said a lot about you. People would export their
bookmarks as HTML and t