Sunday, March 20, 2005

Checking out del.icio.us

I have been distracted, these past couple of days, by del.icio.us. I've been seeing references to it and finally decided to check it out. You geeks out there who have already been there and done that can skip this -- but for the rest of us this is worth talking about. It's dead simple, really, but way more powerful than it looks at first.

What it's useful for:
- Place to keep your bookmarks on the web, so you can get to them from any computer.
- Sorting your bookmarks in whatever way you want, by giving them tag-words you make up. Each link can have as many different tags as you want, and you can filter for one tag or a combination of tags. Your account page has a list of tag-links along the side so you can get at things easily.
- Finding out what other people are bookmarking. You can see everyone's bookmarks with a particular tag, or see who else links to the same site you do and then see what else they link to. If you find someone who frequently bookmarks stuff that's interesting to you (generally or under a particular tag), you can subscribe to their links and automatically find out what they're looking at.

I'm trying not to spend all my time mucking about with this, so del.icio.us/becca doesn't have a ton of stuff on it yet. But I will definitely be using this. Friends, if you're there too, let me know where I can find your page?

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