I’m opening up one of my services to anyone who wants to get involved on a limited beta basis. To participate, drop me an email and I’ll give you a link to the signup page. I will be after feedback from anyone who participates.

So, a brief description:

Followup is a social bookmarking service without the social aspect. It is a web-based service that lets you bookmark a page you are looking at so you can come back to it later - and, in a nutshell, that’s all it is.

It was born out of a desire to keep a track of interesting pages to come back and read later, alongside using several different machines and operating systems, making it impossible to use the browser’s standard bookmark feature. Since most other bookmarking services are all about tagging and sharing, another thing that just seemed to waste time, Followup was designed to work in a very simple way: Bookmark the current site, then go back - no tagging, no descriptions, no sharing at the point of bookmarking. This is achieved through the use of a bookmark button that can be dragged to your browser’s toolbar - or all yourbrowser’s toolbars, on whichever machine or OS you’re running. Since the bookmarking is based on your logged-in state alone, as long as you’re logged in (or have logged in using that browser, under that OS, on that machine), any new bookmarks will be added to your list.

Followup does have a more social side, with automated links built in that allow users to submit their saved links to a range of popular social bookmarking/listing/linking sites, but this is a secondary service, and certainly isn’t the primary focus. If you want to share your links, or look at the pages you’ve bookmarked, go to the Followup site. All your links will be listed, along with various things you can do, including the all-important delete function.

So, if you’re interested, drop me an email.