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I have recently become a fan of a new service known as del.icio.us. This pioneering system allows one to easily access their own internet bookmarks from any computer in the world, while providing a simpler and faster method for bookmarking pages and accessing them. Recently, I became tired of bookmarking pages using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox’s inherent system which I found archaic, flawed and cumbersome. |
Using the typical bookmarking strategy built into the web browser, it is difficult to retrieve your own bookmarks as they are often buried in a folder directory substructure. To keep my bookmarks organized I was constantly having to save them in particular folders and making new folders so as to more easily find them. My directory structure of bookmarks was becoming large and extensive. In addition, it required an exorbitant amount of clicking and moving the mouse around, which I try to avoid at all costs. Their blog cites 5.3 million registered users.
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Del.icio.us provides a mechanism for bookmarking pages with a single click then tagging that bookmark with keywords. Your bookmarks are updated in real time on a webpage just for you in chronological order. I cannot recommend enough that you should sign up for an account and try it for yourself! You will quickly become a convert if you spend any amount of time on the web and need to keep a large volume of webpages for reference. |
In addition there are some very cool and unique features. Being as this is a social bookmarking system, other users can see what you are bookmarking. There is a simple option to keep all of your bookmarks private, or only certain ones. For each of your bookmarks, you can see how many other people have bookmarked the same page. The del.icio.us homepage shows you the most popular bookmarks on del.icio.us right now. Your tags can be quickly searched and managed by popularity and usefulness. There is an efficient Firefox add-on which allows you to integrate bookmarks and tags into your browser. If you are tired of managing your bookmarks using your web browser, this is definitely worth a try. Don’t forget to import your bookmarks from your current browser - their existing folder names will be used as their tags.
