Thanks to Chris for introducing me to this before the weekend started. I ended up running back to my computer every chance I got just to tool around and see where I could go with this thing. I had heard of del.icio.us but never really got it until now. Here's a short description from del.icio.us' about page...
del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser (see below). When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others.
You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.
What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.
So, imagine that you could have access to thousands of people's favorites list and you could surf around those lists by keywords or tags and extend your own favorites by finding those people who have something in common with you.
I have a couple of sites that I consider golden little nuggets. They're usually tutorial sites or somewhere I go first when I'm trying to do something different with Photoshop, Flash, etc... Once I got the link into del.icio.us I saw that there were about 14,000 other people that had those sites on their lists. So then I started clicking around in there lists and it wasn't long before my favorites had doubled. Basically, my resources had doubled.
The possibilities are obviously endless and definitely worth checking out. If you would like to see my del.icio.us links I've added a links TypeList in the right column.
Get set up with your own del.icio.us links at the del.icio.us site.
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