If you like just a little distraction when you start up your browser, if you find Twitter and news sites too in-your-face, but a blank page too mundane, try Wikipedia. Yeah that's right, we just linked to Wikipedia, like it's some obscure site we found. Because if you only end up there through Google results, you might have never noticed their elegant, calming home page.

iOS/Chrome: If you like to collect together different links, whether that's for organising a vacation or just random cool stuff, Shout makes it easy to do so, then turn that collection into a list of stuff other people can see.

Today, Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that it has acquired the popular bookmarking service, Pocket.

It's easy enough to collect a large number of site bookmarks to read on a rainy day... and promptly forget about them. If your favourites bar is starting to get cluttered and you're not in the mood to check each on individual, clean-up tools exist for both Firefox and Chrome to save you the effort.

Most services you might use to save links for future reference or reading are part social network and part sharing service. They're designed to help you share those links, or make big lists. LinkLocker is none of those -- it's completely private, and the only person who can see your bookmarks is you. It's perfect.

Web/Android/iOS: Bookmarking services like Pocket and Instapaper are great, but one place they fail a bit is organisation. Stash is a service that solves that by automatically organising your saved sites for you.

Bookmarking site Readability, one of the first read-it-later services, will shut down on September 30. After that, you won't be able to access the articles you've saved. Here's how to export your articles to Instapaper or Pocket.

Chrome: Not content with letting Pocket have the spotlight, Google has introduced a new extension called Save to Google that allows you to save articles to read later.

Chrome: If you keep lots of tabs open in your browser window, it can be a minor pain to find one when you need it. Tab Organiser is a Chrome extension that helps you maintain them a little better.

iPhone/Chrome: We certainly don't have a shortage of bookmarking services to choose from, but while the likes of Pocket and Instapaper are great in their own right, they're not perfect for everyone. Linkpack bridges the gap between the two, at least a little bit.

Keeping a big, running list of links related to a project is always a bit tough, but Linky Dink is a simple little tool that allows anyone on a team to share links in a non-obnoxious way.

Google has backflipped on its revised bookmark manager for Chrome, reinstating the classic version instead.

Pocket is a great bookmarking service, but you have to add articles to it manually. If there's a blog you always want to read stories from, Feedhuddler is a simple web app that sends everything that pops up in the RSS feed over to your Pocket account.

The newest version of Chrome features a fancy new bookmark manager and interface that's all about thumbnails. If you're not a fan of that snazz, Techdows points to a flag you can switch to get the old interface back.

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Chrome: It was formally known as Google Stars -- before it was pulled from the Chrome Web Store. The Bookmark Manager extension relaunches today and brings a selection of new features to make your bookmarks more powerful.

The internet is full of brilliant articles you haven't read. So is your read-it-later app of choice, whether it's Pocket, Readability, Instapaper or any other. Here's how to finally tackle that reading list, with a little help from technology.

Chrome: While there are more advanced ways to save stuff for later, bookmarks can still be helpful. SuperSorter removes one of the biggest pains of dealing with them: organisation.

iOS/Android: Bookmark-and-read-later tool Instapaper updated with quite a few new features today. It now includes text-to-speech functionality, user profiles and some nifty goodies for iOS 8 users.