del.icio.us is a 'social bookmarking tool' that has been getting a lot of press recently -- on the web at least. The first several times i saw it mentioned it didn't really pique my interest but when the del.icio.us Firefox extension showed up as the 'featured extension' at mozilla.org i thought i'd give it a chance.
After several weeks i am completely sold. I frequently bookmark sites while browsing and i can't see myself going back to keeping them in a hierarchical collection of folders anymore. del.icio.us allows you to 'tag' bookmarks with keywords and then subsequently group related keywords, a process they call bundling. Flikr uses a similar scheme for tagging photos. Additionally, you can see who else has bookmarked the same site as you, search popular bookmarks, search by tag, send and receive recommendations, and so on.
You can also access your bookmarks from anywhere because they are hosted for you. Previously, i had been playing around with Portable Firefox so i could have this capability. This solution is much simpler.
Feel free to check out what i've bookmarked. i'm adding more all the time -- way more often then i post.
2 comments:
Sounds valuable. I had been putting those sites in my "A collection of sites that are interesting but ultimately aren't critical" folder.
Also, I think you should feature the http://www.stripgenerator.com/ site in a future post. It was and remains beyond awesome
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