del.icio.us
This is a very impressive website (http://del.icio.us/) that does for bookmarks what Flickr does for photographs. At its simplest level, it stores bookmarks on the web so that you can get to them from any computer you are using. But more importantly, it makes Firefox and IE bookmarks unnecessary by providing an alternative product that is usable. Like Flickr, the key is that each bookmark can be flagged with as many descriptive tags as you can imagine. When you go to your del.icio.us page you see all of your tags and clicking on anyone of them generates a list of each of your bookmarks with that tag. No more searching through the old bookmarks listing trying to figure out how you indexed them in the past.
You can also create bundles of tags so all tags having something to do with a general subject will be displayed within the bundle. To make its use easy, there is a Firefox extension that places two icons on the Navigation Toolbar. One takes you to your page on the del.icio.us site and the other lets you tag the Internet site you are looking at if you want to add it to del.icio.us.
Finally, instead of just searching your tags to get to your bookmarks, you can do a universal search, which will produce both your tags and everyone else’s who has used that same tag in setting up their bookmarks. This serves as a search tool that can supplement Google.
One slightly awkward feature gives you the ability to search your bookmarks using multiple tags. If you want to do a multiple tag search, you need to click first on one tag, then look at the “related tag” section on the right of the screen. However, instead of clicking on the name that you want, you must click on the “+ sign” preceding the name. If you do that you will pare the selection of bookmarks down each time you click.
You can also create bundles of tags so all tags having something to do with a general subject will be displayed within the bundle. To make its use easy, there is a Firefox extension that places two icons on the Navigation Toolbar. One takes you to your page on the del.icio.us site and the other lets you tag the Internet site you are looking at if you want to add it to del.icio.us.
Finally, instead of just searching your tags to get to your bookmarks, you can do a universal search, which will produce both your tags and everyone else’s who has used that same tag in setting up their bookmarks. This serves as a search tool that can supplement Google.
One slightly awkward feature gives you the ability to search your bookmarks using multiple tags. If you want to do a multiple tag search, you need to click first on one tag, then look at the “related tag” section on the right of the screen. However, instead of clicking on the name that you want, you must click on the “+ sign” preceding the name. If you do that you will pare the selection of bookmarks down each time you click.
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