Social Bookmarking : del.ico.us

What the heck is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is basically a web based bookmarking service on steroids. It gives users the ability to access bookmarks from anywhere and share web pages that has been deemed "bookmarkable" by its network of users.

What kind of name is del.icio.us?

Pronounced "delicious," del.icio.us is both the company name and domain name (http://del.icio.us) of a service that allows people to bookmark web sites to an online account rather than to a favorites folder in their web browser.

What does del.icio.us do?

1. Online Bookmarking:
Saving bookmarks online allows users to access them from any computer and from any browser. Bookmark syncing is a big challenge for people who use more than one computer or browser. However, rather than attempting to sync bookmarks between multiple computers and browsers, users simply work from a single repository of bookmarks accessible from any internet connection.

2. Bookmark Tagging:
Have you ever started reading something really interesting, run out of time, decided to bookmark it, but then couldn't remember what you called it or what folder you saved it in? del.icio.us addresses this common challenge by using bookmark tags. Every time you bookmark a site to del.icio.us, you can add keywords (tags) to the bookmarked web page to help you categorize that page in your del.icio.us account. Tagging is far superior to folders because it allows users to bookmark the same web page to many "folders." For example, a person adding this blog post to del.icio.us might tag it with terms like [del.icio.us yahoo bookmarking acquisition]. That person could later retrieve this post within their del.icio.us account by clicking on any of those four tags.

3. Bookmark Sharing:
Bookmarks posted to del.icio.us become part of the del.icio.us community. The bookmarked web pages are ranked based on how many times a page is bookmarked by del.icio.us users. This helps address one of the toughest questions faced by web users today: "What's worth reading?" Searching del.icio.us by a tag that interests them, or clicking del.icio.us' "Popular" link will guide people to interesting content fast using the power of deli.icio.us' network. Once one person ads this blog post to del.icio.us, other users of del.icio.us may also stumble upon it, read it, and decide it's bookmark worthy, thus increasing the popularity of this post for the terms it has been tagged with.