It was wonderful to observe the number of clicks made on Aboogy for various links to Euro 2008 portals, increase on a daily basis. The morning after the tragic match we witnessed a peak of clicked links in reference to sports following which that very same number dropped irreversibly. Aside from the fact that the Turks caused us indescribable emotional pain, Aboogy experienced this blow, on account of the decrease in traffic, on a personal level as well. To make matters worse, some of our favorite articles of clothing from our summer collection went out of style literally overnight. Everything and anything checkered red and white is no longer in.

When someone delivers this many blows in only 70 seconds to a people whose only recognizable brand in the world is their pride, then this same someone needs to be prepared for the worst kind of consequences.

The board members of our organization have reached a unanimous decision in which residents of Turkey have been banned from registration on the Aboogy site for the remaining duration of Euro 2008!

We are fully aware of the impact of such a radical move and the deep and painful mark it will leave on Turkish Internet operations and the economy as a whole and will generally cause a considerable step backward on a global scale - developmentally speaking. However, it must also be understood that as a result of the actions passed, they leave this Internet superpower known as Aboogy with no choice or alternative options. We sincerely hope that the Turks along with everyone else will think twice before deciding on similar moves in the future.

Following the announcement of our decision we received an email from an unknown sender threatening to crash our service if we do not enable registration on Aboogy for Turks.

Here is the email screenshot.

After a brief assembly we have come to the conclusion that changing our minds with regards to our decision on this particular matter is not an option and is completely out of the question. Aboogy is prepared for any and all types of attacks.

No Aboogy for Turks until the end of Euro 2008!

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A silly title such as this one is created when you try and sum up in a single sentence the two innovations we are proud to present to you today. Now you have an option on your control panel that says “Visually cut links”.
If taken out of context you would think that it is enough to carefully monitor your links and wait for them to shrink - whatever that means.  Unfortunately, no such luck.
If you choose to activate this option, all of the lengthy link titles within your categories that extend into two or three rows, due to the number of words, will be visually shortened and only take up a single row within a category - the emphasis being on Visual because when you deactivate this option the links are returned to their original state. We feel that your homepage or starting page will be a lot more organized and better laid out.

The second innovation we would like to present is Import and Export for your bookmarks.
Many of you have gotten a few gray hairs waiting for this option and we tried to stall as long as possible, however the pressure was too much for us and we simply had to give in to everyone’s wishes before anyone got hurt. If you’re wondering why we didn’t activate this option earlier I will tell you what I have already said many times before at the risk of sounding boring and repetitive.
Aboogy is your home page and not a storage place for links. A home page should be neat, well laid out, fast and functional. Creating the ideal homepage or starting page is a process and not a rush job where you shake the dirt off your hands, wipe your forehead, sit down and relax. When important links are added one at a time over a period of time, a logical order is created and in the event that you are woken up in the middle of the night you are able to locate a specific link without even looking at the monitor. If you should import all 300 of your bookmarks into Aboogy at once, you will create chaos that can easily be organized by dragging and dropping, however, the fact remains that it will be a lot harder to get used to the order. It seems pointless if it takes you half a minute to locate a link when your favorite website is only a click away!

On the other hand, if you ask me, Export is a more useful option. Now you can save your Aboogy bookmarks as a regular html document and as such they can be used for backups or for transferring to another service which may be better than Aboogy (even though we all know there is no such thing). Bookmarks can be exported all at once, as a separate category or as a group of selected categories.

The import and export options are located within the Aboogy editor. Because this is all relatively new, if you should notice any irregularities please feel free to write your comments here or send us an email.

How to export your Firefox bookmarks into file which can be imported into Aboogy?

Open your Firefox browser and go to Bookmarks - Organize bookmarks

In Bookmarks Manager application, go to File - Export

Choose location on your hard disk for your bookmaks file - “bookmarks.html” and click “Save”

All you have to do now is to go to your Aboogy and import this file.

Arange your categories and links and start to surf with just one click.

Enjoy!

How to export your Internet Expolorer Favorites into file which can be imported into Aboogy?Open your Internet Explorer browser and go to File - Import and Export

Wizard will pop up and it will lead you all the way. Click button - Next.

Choose Export Favorites and click Next button.

Click Next (be sure that Favorites are marked)

Select where you would like to save your exported favorites and click Next

That’s it. Click OK button.

All you have to do now is to go to your Aboogy and import this file.

Arange your categories and links and start to surf with just one click.

Enjoy!

Not safe. That’s what one good friend of mine has told me.
“My whole web surfing portfolio is placed on your Aboogy and I’m totally hooked on it. It could easily happen that you wake up one morning and decide to reroute your creativeness towards agriculture or something similar, and as a result, me and few thousands of other people around the world would loose our bookmarks. And the worst part is, I wouldn’t know where to start surfing? When I find myself behind someones else’s computer, first thing I do is to log in at my Aboogy even if I know the address I need to visit. Just so you know, if I wake up one morning and Aboogy is not there with my cup of coffee, I’m gathering other members and coming after you with torches and pitchforks!”

I was shaken a bit by her words although she probably didn’t mean it. Anyhow, that was enough for us at Aboogy to start thinking about a blog as communication channel with our members. We want you to feel that someone is actually alive behind this five columns of links that you click on daily. We also want to hear your opinion. How satisfied are you with our service? Our customer support?

In the following posts we will fill you in a story behind Aboogy, about us, about all you want to know. Further more, we beg you not to be too hard on us concerning grammar and spelling on this blog since English is not our first language, and with our formal education long gone, all we have left are Hollywood blockbusters to learn from :)

We would also like to point out that there is a sister blog at http://blog.aboogy.com/hr for Croatian speaking members.