FoxMarks lets you synch your Firefox bookmarks with a central server and keep various machines (office/home, PC/Laptop/Zonbu) in synch. It also means if any one of them goes walkabout on you you don’t loose your bookmarks.
Quite frankly, this is the kind of functionality I would expect for my Zonbu bookmarks already, given the online storage/cachefs approach Zonbu takes. But hey, you can’t have everything.
In the mean time, hot rod your Zonbu with FoxMarks.
-Mr. Zonbu
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The latest public release of the ZonbuOS dropped today – 6.999.
Due to problems with logging in to my account (both on wired and wireless connections) I don’t have the update yet. Thankfully, this release claims to address many of those issues. I expect to get it downloaded later tonight, at which point I can offer more observations about the good, the bad and the still missing items from my wish list. 
In the mean time, courtesy of the official Zonbu support site, here are the release notes:
Releases
Version 6.999 – released 2007-11-08
See also notes for 6.971 that was not pushed to customers
New features* Control Panel to change Zonbu password
* Add sshfsImprovements
* Upgrade Firefox to 2.0.0.9
* Firefox offers a reasonnable choice of applications to open downloaded files
* Upgrade FreeCiv to 2.1.0
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Posted by mrzonbu
Great news. Skype 2.0 beta has dropped for Linux – and it contains webcam support.
Regular readers will know that I feel that the lack of webcam support in the Zonbu is a major hurdle to adoption. While I would really like to see support for MSN webcam sessions, I would accept Skype 2.0 as a viable alternative, as long as Grandma can talk to my son from her Windows (or future Zonbu) machine and her Logitech quickcam.
I wonder what, if any hurdles, are involved in supporting this on the Zonbu?
You can read more about the Skype beta on their site, although the wording is a bit strange…
-Mr. Zonbu
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