What is Stuffs4U.com?

Stuffs4U.com helps you discover and share top favorites. As you browse, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. Its is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use Stuffs4U.com to:

• Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.

• Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the Stuffs4U.com community.

• Discover new things. Everything on Stuffs4U.com is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So Stuffs4U.com is full of favorites about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.

Primary use of Stuffs4U.com is to store your favorites online, which allows you to access the same favorites from any computer and add favorites from anywhere, too. On Stuffs4U.com, you can use tags to organize and remember your favorites, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use Stuffs4U.com to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search Stuffs4U.com to discover the cool and useful favorites that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.

All you need is a browser and an internet connection. Sound good? Here's how to get started. If you'd like to find out more, keep reading.

What can I use Stuffs4U.com for?

Stuffs4U.com is an open-ended system, so you decide how you want to use it. Here are examples of things you can do with saving favorites on Stuffs4U.com:

• Research - Writing an article? Researching an industry? Slaving away on your dissertation? Use Stuffs4U.com to keep track of all the source materials and commentary that you find online.

• Wishlist - Go to any commerce site, find what you like, save it to Stuffs4U.com and tag it as wishlist. Then you can tell people to check out your wishlist favorites by giving them a link to http://Stuffs4U.com/username/wishlist .

• Podcast - Want to hear some great podcasts? Visit the mp3+podcast tag combination and start listening. Are you a podcaster? Start posting your mp3 files to Stuffs4U.com and we will create an RSS feed for you.

• Vacation - Planning a trip? Save links to hotels, activities, and transportation and use tags like "travel", "vacation", and "to-visit". Collaborate with friends and family by using the "for: username" tag.

• Linklog - Save favorites to interesting websites and add a bit of commentary to create a lightweight linklog. Then, use linkrolls or the daily blog posting feature to include your Stuffs4U.com favorites on your blog or website.

• Cookbook - Whenever you find a great recipe on a website, save it to Stuffs4U.com. Tag it with the recipe's ingredients or style of cooking, and then when you're wondering what to make for dinner, you can use your saved favorites to help you remember the perfect recipe.

• Collaboration - Friends, coworkers, and other groups can use a shared account, special tag, or their Stuffs4U.com networks to collect and organize favorites that are relevant -- and useful -- to the entire group.

What do those buzzwords mean, anyway?

What is social bookmarking?

Stuffs4U.com is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share favorites on the web, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages.

First, you can get to your favorites from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second, you can share your favorites publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark favorites on Stuffs4U.com as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)

Third, you can find other people on Stuffs4U.com who have interesting favorites and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on Stuffs4U.com chooses to save their favorites for a reason. You have access to the links that everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people to remember -- which may help you find things that are useful for you, too.

What are tags?

Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your favorites on Stuffs4U.com. They're a little bit like keywords but non-hierarchical. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and easily rename or delete them later. Tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders.