Finally something in this web 2.0 that I can find imminently useful with nary a reservation (i.e. I may not complain in this entry). The idea of del.icio.us seems really cool to me. I know there have been lots of times when I wanted to access a site that I'd bookmarked on my home laptop from a different computer and couldn't manage to dredge up a clue what the url was. In the past, I tried to find it with Google, but even when that worked, it generally took longer than I wanted to devote to the task. This technology reminds me of Meebo in the idea that it enables you to access "stuff" - be they IM friends lists or bookmarks - from any Internet-connected computer. Since, however, I use bookmarks much more than IM, del.icio.us is far more useful.
If I could only remember where the periods go without looking it up.
Of course there is another aspect to del.icio.us. That whole "social" thing. As someone who tends to research rather esoteric subjects, I can see how it would be very handy to be able to enter a tag and see other sites that had been thus labled. It might also be useful when trying to answer a reference question. Instead of trying to slog through a bunch of useless search-engine-generated websites to find a couple good ones, you could use the tags from del.icio.us to zero in on (supposedly) proven pages. Even if not all tags were useful, they would definately provide a better place to start.
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