Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master

Bookmarklets, in case you're not familiar with them, are bookmarks that perform a specific action. I can't live without these because they speed up my day, especially when you use them with browser keywords. Here's a list of some new ones that I have started to use in the last few months. Just drag these to your bookmarks/favorites bar and you're good to go. For more fun with bookmarklets, be sure to also check out Blummy.
Pocket Tweets Pop - pops up the Pocket Tweets interface for interacting with Twitter. (More pop-ups here)
Twit This - send a web page directly into Twitter (requires you first enter your info on the TwitThis site)
Map This - pops up a window, enter an address and you will take you to the map
Gmail-to-Gcal - takes any selected text in Gmail and converts it into an event
Mobilize Me - great for mobile phones, takes any web page you're viewing and strips away the formatting by running it through the Google mobile transcoder
Share on Facebook - takes a web page and sticks it into Facebook as a shared item
Pasword Saver - for sites that won't remember your login info, click this link then enter your username/password and your browser will never forget it
Take Screenshot - automatically create a screen grab of any public web page you're visiting
Search and Highlight - scans a page for any term you enter then highlights the results
New Doc - creates a new word processing Google Document
Movie Times - enter your zip code and get a list of all the movies playing in your hood
Amazon This - pops up a little window, enter a term and it will run your search through on Amazon
Convert Me - takes any YouTube video and converts it into another downloadable format using Zamzar
Edit in Picnik - pushes a web page's images into Picnik where you can edit and save it






Amazingly amazing tips Steve! Thanks.
Posted by:DC Crowley | Friday, October 12, 2007 at 04:52 PM
I've got one you can add to your list. It's a del.icio.us search bookmarklet that also works great on the iPhone. The real power of this bookmarklet happens when you bookmark del.icio.us search shortcuts.
In del.icio.us you can bookmark urls from search engines where you insert '%s' where you search terms should go. For example: My bookmark for Wikipedia search is "http://www.wikiseek.com/results.php?q=%s". Then you tag each bookmark with shortcut:"name of shortcut". For example: I tagged the previous url with shortcut:wp. When you use search del.icio.us you put a "!" before the shortcut and then your search terms. For example: "!wp steve rubel" .
You can look at my del.icio.us search shortcut bookmarks for more search shortcuts. del.icio.us/entangledstate/del.icio.us+shortcut
del.icio.us search - pops up a del.icio.us search box.
Posted by:Tim Kersey | Friday, October 12, 2007 at 05:40 PM
Nice & useful!
I see you have about 5k boomarks on del.icio.us - so you can add another one button in your browser: deliGoo search (www.deliGoo.com). It helps to perform full-text search at content of websites and pages, saved in del.icio.us bookmarks.
Posted by:Dmitry Honcharenko | Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 12:38 AM
So how does someone (non-geek, thickheaded) get these bookmarklets into a functional place? How do I get a one-click google doc without bookmarking this page and clicking your link?
I looked at Blummy. Not clear to me yet.
Thanks in advance for any help with this!
Posted by:marieboyer | Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 06:40 AM
Marie, just right click on any of the links above and add it it to your bookmarks. Then all you need to do is choose that bookmark to create a new Google Doc. Blummy simply puts a bunch of bookmarklets into one.
Posted by:Steve Rubel | Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 06:49 AM
Never mind! I figured it out!!!
Posted by:marieboyer | Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 08:12 AM
You forgot one of the most important bookmarklets for web-developers and basic users alike, called "Mypage" that puts you in control of the current page. You can remove, isolate, edit page items with keyboard control. On-screen print-preview emulation lets you see how the page will print while editing.
Posted by:Naser | Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 03:44 PM
What about http://www.siphs.com for forwarding links. It's great!
Posted by:Fred | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11:38 AM
If you want to take this concept to the next level, checkout the Operator Firefox add-on at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106 . It is able to identify microformats on a page for events, addresses, business cards and feeds them to relevant applications. No retyping required!
Jody Baty
Lead Developer of the myMaps Curriculum Mapping Application
Posted by:Jody Baty | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Wow, these are great; I've never gotten into bookmarklets before, but these are bound to save quite a bit of time.
Thanks!
Posted by:Adam Kayce : Monk At Work | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 01:09 PM
Thank you - Edit in Picnik and Convert Me will come very handy.
I also prefer to have GMailThis and BlogThis! (source code)
Posted by:Amit Agarwal | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Steve, when you get a chance check out http://shareaholic.com
Firefox extension that aggregates social bookmarking bookmarklets. Less nav bar clutter, more joy :)
Posted by:Jay Meattle | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 01:49 PM
Thanks for providing these creative bookmarklets.
To automate more complex tasks I use the iMacros Firefox extension lately. It allows you to include complete web browser macros in your bookmarks or even post them on social bookmarking sites. My own macros are private, but some good examples can be found at http://del.icio.us/imacros/imacro
Posted by:Tina | Monday, October 15, 2007 at 04:15 PM
I'm disappointed. I have no use for any of those bookmarklets.
Posted by:LightningCrash | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Nice and useful list...some of them are real cool
Hv included a link to this from my blog aweBsome - all that's awesome on the weB @ http://www.eit.in/b/awe/
Posted by:NS | Monday, October 22, 2007 at 02:12 PM