In Praise of Jumplists

What does the word jumplist signify? To a programmer, it’s a data structure. To those who remember the early days of the Web, it’s the name given to a categorized collection of links—which constituted the majority of pages in the beginning. And of course more recently, users know it as one of the more popular interface elements of Windows 7—350 million copies of which have been purchased so far.

In my own case, I think of it primarily as the name of a database-driven web service that i/us Corp., the Canadian company I co-founded, launched in 1998 at COMDEX. It was conceived as a way to make it easy for website owners to add and maintain their own categorized collection of links, with a look and feel that matched their sites.

Thirteen years later, I am now selling the jumplist.com domain, as well as jumplist.net, jump-list.com, jumplist.co and the jumplist logo. If you see this package as a possibility for a website catering to Windows 7 users, more information is available here.