Everyone Should be Using Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is a great online resource with a catchy name.  Del.icio.us is an online, taggable, social bookmark manager.  This means basically you can bookmark a page in del.icio.us, and then get to it from any other computer later on.

Lets say that you were researching a school paper and you were doing it both at home and at school.  Well, instead of emailing yourself all the links back and forth (which would be very painful to do with anything but gmail), you just add them to your del.icio.us account and your done.  When you switch computers, you just log into del.icio.us and they are all there.

Better still, you can "tag" each link and provide a description so you can find it later.  Tags are keywords that you group content under.  They are similar to folders, except an object could have several tags, but could only be in one folder.  So, you could tag each link you find with "school", "paper", and then the specific topic you are looking at.  Then when you wanted to find them again they would all be under the proper tags.  Excellent!

Even better still, del.icio.us is a social system, meaning you share your bookmarks with others and can see other peoples bookmarks.  This is particularly nice, as you can search for similar tags from other people.  For example, the science tag will give you links to such sites as the Nobel Prize Internet Archive .
My favorite tags: website, apple, css, security, and freebsd.
Check out my del.icio.us account here

And if you want to see whats cool on the Internet at this very moment, then check out the popular section.  Its delicious.