When you’re on the road, passing time reading up on things online from your mobile phone, it can be quite a pain in the ass to bookmark articles for later or share them with others. Smub aims to change all that by debuting a web-based tool that you can access from anywhere and lets you easily bookmark and share stuff from your mobile browser without necessarily having to register for the service.
Smub is incredibly simple to use. All you need to do when you’re browsing an article on your computer or mobile device is add “smub.it/” in front of the URL and it will take you to a page where you can bookmark the link to your Smub profile if you have one, or alternatively your favorite social bookmarking service or one of the more popular social networking services without the need for a separate account. Currently, Smub boasts e-mail support as well as direct push to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, Digg, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Mixx, Reddit and HelloTXT.
Smub is a very basic service, but a useful one that’s been pretty well executed. Once you’ve saved a bookmark to your Smub profile, you can set a relatively short URL which redirects to it (e.g. smub.it/robinwauters/netflix.ceo – yay, another toolbar-in-a-frame) and you can also add keyword tags and comments to the article in one swoop. You can manage your bookmarks from your account too, and share them on the services cited above later if you choose to. To get started, you can import the bookmarks from whichever browser you’re using, and you can easily pull in your friends’ contact details from Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail to make it easier and faster for you to share ‘Smubs’ with them.
I like Smub already, and I suspect that while the team clearly wants to make sure the service is mobile-friendly (it works particularly well with the iPhone) some people will be interested in simply using it on their computers. For those, the Smub guys added a Firefox extension and toolbar which can come in quite handy if you’re using multiple social bookmarking services.
Now go smub something and tell us what you think.
does smub mean anything, or just a “web 2.0″ name?
As far as I can tell, no. As far as I care, I don’t… it seems silly and stupid and pointless before I even have a chance to understand what the product is… and somehow the logo, while almost exactly the same, is about ten times better than Bing’s. How is it even possible to suck as much as Microsoft?
Useful no doubt
In France, we had a service similar to Facebook years before Facebook. And as far as I know, it seems that a similar service to smub DOES exist…
“My France is better than your France”
I would say Smub stands for “Simple Mobile Unified Bookmarks”
souunds good
Good tool, Always wanted one, thankks for it
Yeah,really good ,i have to log in T,D,F,G one by one
By the way today was told the new short name of wolframalpha,http://wolpha.com easier to input.
You can have a try.
Last night I watched the entire Google Wave 1 hour and 20 minute video on YouTube. Smub, since it is a link sharing service, and an amazing number of other services will all be affected (most likely they will at least have to build a Gateway to Wave or perhaps even move over to it as their services base). Link sharing (Smub), messaging, whiteboards, Wikis, groupware and many, many more services/applications will all be affected by Wave.
I will have to start using this for http://www.worstpizza.com posts to make sure I have an easy link to share!
What a complete waste of my time. Half of the options don’t work. No matter what platform I try to smub on it tells me the email address is illegal (!). Diggs don’t show up on the account and there is no instruction on how to send things directly from your own email client as they state is possible.
It’s all a fix for a problem that the vast majority of people probably don’t face if they have cut and paste facilities. And really that’s pretty much just the iphone (and I have an ipod touch so I do understand how frustrating that is folks!)
Good effort smub but just not enough going for you to keep afloat with this one.
Hi, Mark! You can choose to send smubs from your email client after logging into your account and making the changes as mentioned on the smub blog. The instructions for sending to email are just the same as for the other sites we currently support. There’s an Email icon in the Smub window when you create a smub! Just like for Facebook and Twitter. Just click it!
If you’re trying to send a smub to email from your account page, check the smub you want to share and click the Email icon at the bottom left!
I hope this helps! If it’s still not working for you, please contact us and I’ll be happy to chat with you about setting things right!
Low-hanging fruit: this thing needs a bookmarklet.
Hi, JL! Smub does have a bookmarklet for iPhone! Instructions for installing the bookmarklet directly to your iPhone are coming soon. But, if you have installed the bookmarklet to your desktop’s Safari, you’ll have it on your iPhone the next time you sync. (Provided you have your iPhone set to sync bookmarks!)
Twitter should acquire this immediately!
all decent places that i read articles on, already have these social features integrated into the site itself. i dont see any need for this service.
Just FYI AddToAny released a bookmarklet for iPhone users last year.
http://www.addt...and-ipod-touch/
I wish the installation process could be more streamlined but once installed it works very well!
great tool for my iphone
This is cool gadget. After reading this I immediately installed it and it work great. for http://www.spunkjunks.com I do a lot of travelling and this come in very handy
smub is a link sharing service and i think that it proves to be very handy.
it would be great for iPhone, if it worked.
Tried it (more than) a few times and always get:
Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found.
If the guys at Smub were louder and more pompous, this could have rivaled the Cuil launch!
Hi, LazySupper!
Are you typing smub.it/ before the url? The problem you’re reporting often occurs if the forward slash is missing.
I hope this might help! If not, please feel free to contact me!
Good tool, Always wanted one, thankks for it
I have never seen such links but still its shocking that passwords can be stolen so easily.. Use firefox and Kaspersky for better protection…