It's Delicious!

What's delicious? Well, besides dark chocolate, it's a website called www.del.icio.us. It's creators call it a "social bookmarking site."

Specifically, "The primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders."

In addition, you can also use del.icio.us to share bookmarks, learn what others are bookmarking, and via ranking, learn what sites others find most interesting. You can share your bookmarks (or just some of them) with the public, or just keep them to yourself.

The benefit of having your bookmarks stored online is that they are available to you no matter where you go. You can bring them in for any one of several browsers, including IE, FF, and Opera.

The folks at del.icio.us tell us how this social bookmarking can be used:
* Research - Writing an article? Researching an industry? Slaving away on your dissertation? Use del.icio.us to keep track of all the source materials and commentary that you find online.
* Wishlist - Go to any commerce site, find what you like, save it to del.icio.us and tag it as wishlist. Then you can tell people to check out your wishlist bookmarks by giving them a link to http://del.icio.us/nrobert2/wishlist .
* Podcast - Want to hear some great podcasts? Visit the mp3+podcast tag combination and start listening. Are you a podcaster? Start posting your mp3 files to del.icio.us and we will create an RSS feed for you.
* Vacation - Planning a trip? Save links to hotels, activities, and transportation and use tags like "travel", "vacation", and "to-visit". Collaborate with friends and family by using the "for:username" tag.
* Linklog - Save bookmarks to interesting websites and add a bit of commentary to create a lightweight linklog. Then, use linkrolls or the daily blog posting feature to include your del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog or website.
* Cookbook - Whenever you find a great recipe on a website, save it to del.icio.us. Tag it with the recipe's ingredients or style of cooking, and then when you're wondering what to make for dinner, you can use your saved bookmarks to help you remember the perfect recipe.
* Collaboration - Friends, coworkers, and other groups can use a shared account, special tag, or their del.icio.us networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant -- and useful -- to the entire group.

To get started, go to: http://del.icio.us/. The rest is quite simple, and explained in an almost painfully step-by-step manner.

Once up and running, you will be able to add bookmarks, and tag them, as easily as you do now.

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