Thursday 23 August, 2007

del.icio.us

Have you visited del.icio.us? Its a social bookmarking website.

A social bookmarking website lets you save your bookmarks online. You can access them easily from anywhere on the Internet- from home, work, a library, or on a friend's computer.

It lets you share your bookmarks with others on the Internet - with your friends, co-workers, fans etc. It also lets you to save private, non-shared bookmarks, if you want.

It also lets you discover sites that others have found good. You can easily see which websites others have bookmarked for a topic. For example, if you are looking for sites regarding CNC programming, simply search for the tag 'CNC' in bookmarks of people world-over. You will be getting sites that others have found good for information on CNC.

Rather than organise your bookmarks in folders, del.icio.us uses a concept of tags that you will get used to quickly and will find very beneficial. "Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on del.icio.us. They're a little bit like keywords..." For more information on tags, visit their help page on tags.

For more information on how saving bookmarks to del.icio.us works, you can visit their help page on saving bookmarks.

There are numerous social bookmarking sites to choose from.
BTW, did you notice that del.icio.us is simply the word delicious with two dots in between?

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