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About Kbucket
What are Kbuckets?
Kbucket is a user generated bookmark page created by researchers, enthusiasts and anyone with the passion to share their knowledge.
What makes the Kbucket site different from other social bookmarking and research sites is the organization and easy navigation of hundreds and thousands of links on a single Kbucket page.
YOU SEE, the organization of related subjects on one page will not only save you time but will also help you find information about a subject that you may not have thought about or even known is related to your search/research.
So Kbucket Authors or Kauthors have the ability to help you see beyond what you thought existed!
How Do I Search Kbuckets?
Kauthors collect and publish their links plus comments all organized on the Kbucket site. The front page displays a set of Tags that are basically categories for the Kbucket search site. Each kauthor assigns a set of tags to identify the content of their Kbuckets. So when you click on a tag you will get a list of all the Kbuckets identified by that tag.
Here is what you get when you click on one of the tags in the front page.
Each Kbucket organizes links in Cabinet and Drawer tabs similar to a how filing cabinet organized and compartmentalizes documents.
When you enter a search term in Kbuckets search box you get a list of Kbuckets/Cabinets/Drawers relevant to your search. All items are clickable and will take you to the corresponding link object.
Each Kbucket will NOT ONLY give you the search term you were looking for but will give related topics helping you with your search.
How do I become a Kbucket Author?
You need Optimal Desktop to author Kbuckets. Optimal Desktop is the only tabbed browser and link organization and publishing tool. Optimal Desktop is IE based and runs on all windows platforms. To publish you need to register as an Kbucket Author (Kauthor) on this site and receive the unlock code for publishing to the Kbucket site.
You can Download Optimal Desktop for free and try it by clicking here.
What Kind of Kbuckets can I make?
You can make any kind of Kbucket you like. We are sure once you get started you will become very creative about organizing and tagging links. Here are some ideas. Click on the Icon to be taken to our sample Kbuckets.
Directory Kbuckets
 Let’s say we want to make a Directory about search. Well there is a lot more than Google and Yahoo. First we can make a Directory off various search engines and tag them with “Law Search”, “Travel Search”, “Visual Search”, “Meta Search”, “Blog Search” and ...
Next we may want to give people a category Cabinet on “Search Engine Optimization” because it is a subject that is related to search.
We many yet make another Cabinet that has a Directory on Gadgets, Video Sites, Blogs on various subjects and so on.
We are sure that many information professionals and researchers have some great ideas on how to help people with their searches. So register and start building your Kbucket.
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Issues Kbuckets
 We often read news from a few trusted sources, however to get an objective view wouldn’t it be reasonable to listen to all sides.
In this Election 2008 Kbucket we gatherd news from libral and conservative blogs, US based news organizations, Middle east news organizations and European news outlets.
We think these types of Kbuckets will not only be interesting every day when they are updated, but will also remain interesting as a “Already Done Research” during the coming election cycles.
So whether you are a blogger researching your subjects or simply a consumer that reads and tries to make sense of issues and subjects we invite you to store and share your research with others.
We think once you (The Kauthor) put your mind behind this you will come up with very interesting and insightful ways to organize and categorize not just news but research into any subject like Yoga, Food, Health, Cancer, Alternative Healing ...
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Will Kauthors get any money?
The short answer is yes. We will be running ads on our site and will share the revenue with our Kauthors. We do not know the exact details yet, but think that the revenues will be pooled and the sharing will be 50% to us and 50% to our Kauthors based on traffic to their site.
If you don’t want ads on your Kbucket pages, and want to run your own banners we will accommodate that too(it will just cost you - How much, lets talk)!
So star tuned we are in Beta now and need to work the money issues out.
Can I get Kbuckets for my Company?
Yes you can. Many organizations employ researchers and information professionals to seek out and distribute valuable information to colleagues on a need to know basis. The Kbucket platform will work a lot better than an email distribution list. It will not only keep everyone up-to-date but provide a historical depository of information that will undoubtedly be of value.
Contact us at mailto:sales@kbuckets.com for more information.
Does Optimal Desktop (Authoring Browser) work with MAC’s?
Sorry but not yet. Optimal Desktop is an IE based application. We will be porting Optimal Desktop to all platforms, but if you want to join our community of Kauthors now you will need a windows emulator on your MAC.
Why are you using a Desktop based Authoring tool?
It is true that web based readers and applications have many advantages like accessing from any browser on any platform anywhere, but a powerful tool like Optimal Desktop running on your system has advantages over web based tools that are worth the compromise. For example
- Managing tens of windows independently and viewing each feed and page in its own widow (Like to have a popup slide show of a few images)
- Ability to easily and quickly edit your comments and tags
- Ability to search within Optimal Desktop for links, tags, titles
- Ability to quickly build hierarchical groups to publish your research
- Ability to easily move your links between your groups (this is helpful when you collaborate with your audience to refine and build a better and easier to navigate Kscribe based on everyone’s input).
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