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I just wanted something like the "share on facebook" button, but to post links on my (this) blog. I thought I would have to write a module to do that but.. no, Drupal itself allows us to do that directly :)

First, the CCK "Bookmark" Content

First of all, I created a CCK content named "bookmark". Here is the exported CCK code.
Download Bookmark CCK here

Second: the "bookmark" button

Yep, I copied this from the facebook "SHARE IT" button.. :)
First, we need to enable the Prepopulate Drupal module, that allows us to prefill the forms by URL. Then, create some javascript code that could do the job:

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var d=document,f='http://www.example.org/node/add/bookmark-link',l=d.location,e=encodeURIComponent,p='?edit[field_url][0][url]='+e(l.href)+'&edit[title]='+e(d.title);
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a=function() {
  if (!window.open(f+p,'drupalsharer','toolbar=0,status=0,resizable=1,width=626,height=436')) l.href=f+p};
  if (/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))  setTimeout(a,0); else{ a()
}
void(0)

(of course, remember to replace www.example.org whit your real site URL)

Then, compress it to one-line and urlencode it. The final result is similar to this:

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javascript:var%20d%3Ddocument%2Cf%3D%27http%3A%2f%2fwww.example.org%2fnode%2fadd%2fbookmark-link%27%2Cl%3Dd.location%2Ce%3DencodeURIComponent%2Cp%3D%27%3Fedit%5Bfield_url%5D%5B0%5D%5Burl%5D%3D%27%2be%28l.href%29%2b%27%26edit%5Btitle%5D%3D%27%2be%28d.title%29%3B1%3Ba%3Dfunction%28%29%20%7Bif%20%28%21window.open%28f%2bp%2C%27drupalsharer%27%2C%27toolbar%3D0%2Cstatus%3D0%2Cresizable%3D1%2Cwidth%3D626%2Cheight%3D436%27%29%29l.href%3Df%2bp%7D%3Bif%20%28%2fFirefox%2f.test%28navigator.userAgent%29%29setTimeout%28a%2C0%29%3Belse%7Ba%28%29%7Dvoid%280%29%0A

Now, just create a bookmark in your browser pasting the above code as the bookmark URL, and the game is done!

Next step, a view to show bookmarks

I also created a view to display bookmarks. You can see it here.
Download Bookmarks view here