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Help! What should I do with my bookmarks?

November 16th, 2009

aboogyAndDeliciousLogoAboogy is like a beer.  When you are just a kid, you don’t get what the hell people see in that stinky bubbly liquid, but when you grow up it becomes irreplaceable.

Two, three beers are awesome, but add that two or three times up, and the whole system will collapse. With moderate number of links, Aboogy is perfect homepage on your browser. But if you manage to get five meter long columns of links, Aboogy will be of use to you as a piece of an used toilet paper.

The best way of using Aboogy is to put just those links you are visiting on a daily basis. For links you are using once in six months there is better solution. It’s called www.delicios.com. It’s like bottomless hole for bookmarks. Before you throw your link into that pitt be sure to tag it properly (put a key words about it) so you can easily find it when you need it

Let me give you an example.  Let’s say that you want to save this link: www.sexy-underware.com .  Don’t click on it! It’s just an example! Please, concentrate….

Delicious enables you to tag this link with some keywords. For example :

“sexy, underwear, shorts, g-string , present, anniversary, …”

There are no rules. More quality tags you enter, the easier it’ll be for you to find this link when needed. All you’ll have to do is type some of those words, and off you go.

Therefor:

www.aboogy.com is your perfect homepage

www.delicious.com is your perfect bookmark depo.

Leon General

Aboogy on your mobile phone

October 22nd, 2009

We are pleased to announce that now you can set Aboogy as your home page on your mobile phone at address:

m.aboogy.com or mobile.aboogy.com

Sign in with your existing username and find your favorite links on your mobile phone.

What you will see there is a light version of your Aboogy. The main differences of standard and mobile Aboogy are:

- Weight of the site is less than the original Aboogy page to speed up loading on slow internet connections.
- Standard five column is just too complex for a lower screen resolution so we have put all your categories in one column and arranged them alphabetically for quicker reference.
- Image links are converted into a separate category of “Images”
- Large selection of search engines is cut down just to Google mobile.

What is not possible on Aboogy mobile site, but will be in near future is:
- Registration of new users. New users have to register trough classic Aboogy page.
- Adding, deleting and updating categories and links. You can edit your links on standard Aboogy site.

As you can see, this first release supports basic functions of Aboogy service. Despite the current limitations of the extended Aboogy arm you should have better surfing experience while using your mobile phones.

At the very end there is another important thing. We invite all of you who surf the internet using your mobile phones to tell us how Aboogy looks on your mobile devices, is it bothers you and what features you would like to see.

Sign in with your existing username and enjoy mobile.
m.aboogy.com

Yours Aboogy team

Jure General

New Aboogy features, despite the crisis

March 24th, 2009

Over the past six months, you may have noticed that we haven’t exactly been busting our buns in developing new possibilities for Aboogy. There are two basic reasons for our current state of production. The first reason is that Aboogy runs like clockwork and requires only minimal effort from our side and my father always said – if ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A bigger reason is that we are really pressed for time and Aboogy is still hesitant about managing our standard of living so our day job has top priority. Despite the crisis, we have decided to feature a small improvement in the expanded search parameters of your home page.

The amount of user emails that are categorized under “Search engine” has reached a critical point so we decided to kill off several main demands:
Click on the three dots and choose the search engine you use most often and the icons will appear on your home page. By clicking on the icon of our choice you are choosing your search engine. You can now search using localized search engines such as Google, Wiki and Yahoo simply by choosing a top level domain. Damn it I feel smart when I use them fancy, important words like .com, .hr, .it… Your choice will be registered by Aboogy so that you don’t have to keep clicking the same thing each time you return. Basically, we tried to set things up so that it is super quick, practical, efficient and of course useful for you, the user. And for me as well because now I can go to IMDB and glance at reviews before I download Torre… Umm… go to the movies.

The system has been set up in such a way that the process of adding another search engine was a cinch so should you have any requests that actually make sense, let us know and we’ll add the ones that are most in demand. Search engines. That you want from us. Yes, you can ask us. Yes, you can.

And let us know if this is actually helpful or if you are still just clicking like mad on Google.

Jure General

No Aboogy for Turks until the end of Euro 2008!

June 22nd, 2008

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.

emailAfter 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!

www.aboogy.com

Jure General