I finally had the chance to test this social bookmarking tool, after it had stayed in my to do list for a while. In plain English, this is another bookmark tool, to bookmark your favorite page but with a few differences.

Laterloop is a combination of Firefox extension (there is also plugin for IE) as a bookmark tool, other Firefox extensions and Laterloop website as the place where the bookmarked pages are kept. You have 2 options

1. Saved the bookmark page in laterloop itself (i personally recommend this for few reasons later).

2. Save it locally with the combination of other Firefox extensions, called Scrapboo. It must be installed before it can be integrated with laterloop.

How to get started?

1. Sign up laterloop. Alternatively, use Google account if you have one

2. Download and install the Firefox extension

Ok, now you’re ready to begin using Laterloop. There are 5 options to start with

1. Click the LaterLoop icon at the right bottom edge of your browser

2. CTRL + SPACE (save)

3. CTRL + SPACE + SPACE (save & close the page)

4. Right click on any page or link to save the current page or the linked page . (Option 1- 4  save the page to laterloop)

5. Right click and save to your ScrapBook (see the first screen shot above)

There are few reasons why I recommend to save the bookmark online

1. You can archive, star or delete the bookmark

2. The most IMPORTANT thing, you can read them offline. Download your bookmark as ZIP file, and you get back bookmarked web page offline. Cool!! However, it is limited to 30 links only and no images included. So, when you open up the link offline, you can view the entire page exactly as online, except for the images

3. You can share your bookmarked link with public which will be published online under this URL – www.laterloop.com/links/your_id/

4. It’s accessible via mobile using smart phone such as iPhone, Blackberry and Nokia N60

Laterloop provides new bookmarking experience and ease that I had never found before, but with 1 less thing. Socialize and community. Unless you publish them online, no one will find what you’ve bookmarked (unless you want to keep it personal) and whether search engines will  be indexing your published content. But after all, Laterloop is purely bookmarking tool (not social bookmarking tool) so do not expect to gain traffic if you ‘laterloop’ing your own page.

Laterloop is developed based on Google App Engine. Get more from application gallery