Comments on: Nifty Web Cite Tool

By: Fernando Cassia

Fernando Cassia — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:40:50 +0000

Argh! those revenue-obsessed idi*ts!!. You miss the point altogether about one of the strongest points for Citebite: it creates a CACHED COPY of the content, on Citebite´s servers.

It´s very useful to highlight errors, omissions, or articles that are later edited or removed altogether, ie to preserve those for posterity.

By: citebite

citebite — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:53:47 +0000

Citebite is up again. Sorry, but we are experiencing some problems after having moved the app to a new host, hence the downtime. However, only the app is down–not the linked pages created by the app. Linked pages are served directly from Amazon S3 and so they should be near-bulletproof.

By: Mahmoud MHIRI

Mahmoud MHIRI — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:38:39 +0000

Citebite is down again :( The strange thing with it that they didn’t mention any validity date of the link.. so the database may crash at any time,.. it seems that now = anytime :)

Did anyone recommends an alternative of it?

By: Citebite

Citebite — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:19:43 +0000

The Citebite people are listening in and today we launched a new version of the bookmarklet that works with IE6/7.

Go and get it here:

http://www.citebite.com/bookmarklet

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:34:22 +0000

With you entirely on those things. Hopefully, the citebite people are listening to this conversation, Stuart, and will chime in about the bookmarklet. (or even better fix it — joining the conversation is one thing — getting stuff done is on another plane).

Works wonderfully in Firefox and even has a keyboard shortcut…

By: Stuart Bruce

Stuart Bruce — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:24:16 +0000

Seems useful to me for linking to longer features or articles in mainstream media, and I’m not too worried about not giving them link juice. Just a shame that it gives an error on the IE7 toolbar — I’m one of those that thinks IE7 is far better than Firefox (which I now only use for techy type stuff).

By: Hashim

Hashim — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:38:40 +0000

“The link and Google Juice goes to citebite, not the site youâ€™re linking to.”

For this reason, I won’t be using the service. i want the site I’m linking to to get all of the users and Google juice. Also, I worry about what will happen when CiteBite goes down, or disappears entirely.

By: David Cruickshank

David Cruickshank — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:35:49 +0000

Working now!

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:54:35 +0000

Ermm… it could be that ;)

Clearly, it’s still pretty beta and they’ve broken it for a spell.

By: David Cruickshank

David Cruickshank — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:46:33 +0000

Hi Ian — I tried the link but got a standard error page. Perhaps their site is down under stress of traffic from your blog…!