If you a Web site owner, then for you, Kyusl is a new fun way to interact with your visitors, mixing guestbooks, bookmarking and other ideas together. If you have a Web site or a blog, Kyusl connects you with your visitors in a new friendly way.

If you are a visitor to sites owned by Kyusl members, Kyusl will help you to keep a record of those sites, associating with each site "bookmark" an image (a card) provided by site owner.

You can read this page for more detail or sign up now if you already know from others what Kyusl is.

Kyusl borrows some ideas from traditional Web guestbooks, bookmarking and virtual greeting cards services. The main idea behind it, though, is not related with computing.

Decades ago, radio amateurs and ordinary listeners could request so-called "QSL cards" from the radio station (or operator) they tune in. Those could be just normal postcards, or "home made" customized ones, serving as souvenirs from the places you visited in the world of radio waves. You can read more about QSL cards on Wikipedia, for example.

Kyusl ("Kyu-S-L", from "Q-S-L") implements the idea of sending a virtual "QSL card" to the visitors of your Web site. Your collection of Kyusl cards reminds you about the sites you visit, bookmarking them, while the list of those who has requested your cards serves as a guest book and can help you to understand who your visitors are.

After signing up with Kyusl, Web site owners maintain a list of the sites and upload card images for each of them.

A Web page visitor, who has signed up with Kyusl, can request a card using a link placed anywhere on the page. It can be a simple text link or a link with any graphical logo (standard logos are provided by Kyusl). The Web page can as well be a Web log (blog), you just place the link to your links section (a standard feature on most blogging sites).

This is how a Web page with Kyusl link could look like:

For those who do not have a Kyusl account yet, signing up is as simple as choosing a user name and a password. Having an existing Web page is not required to become a member.

Your virtual QSL card can display anything you wish, like your home town, or your own logo, maybe a photo from your last vacation or even some short text about yourself. If you are a business owner, it may show, for example, the goods you produce or sell - just take it as your virtual business card.

Received cards are stored in your personal cards collection and can be viewed any time:

As a young service, Kyusl is still under development those days. New features will be announced as they are available (search, card and member ranking, statistics are coming soon). Any feedback and suggestions coming from members and visitors will be greatly appreciated.

To send your comments, please use the contact form, accessible from any page of Kyusl.

My name is Ilya Klimau and Kyusl.com is my personal project developed for fun. At work, though being in the field of IT, I am doing completely different things (see my technical web log about SAP and ABAP development). More information about my "after-work" life can be found at my personal site, where I publish some favourite food recipes, some more tech stuff and lots of travel notes from our vacations. If you need some ideas on where to spend your next time off, visit the travel section there and read more about our trips.