If you’re like me, you’ve probably accumulated an unwieldy number of bookmarks in your browser’s folder, and it becomes ever harder to find that one site on alien abduction that you bookmarked a year ago.
If you don’t mind remembering one more very cool web page, it’s here and it’s called Delicious.
Delicious keeps track of all your bookmarks categorized with tags, subject headings that relate to the web page’s topic. Want to bookmark that site on alien abductions? Create a Delicious account and add a nifty little button to your browser’s tool bar “Add to Delicious.” It even sounds delicious, doesn’t it? Create a few tags: alien, abduction, UFOs, etc. Delicious will even suggest tags for you. Next year, when you want to find that page again, click on one of your related tags, and, voila, a list appears of just those relevant pages.
One of the best and perhaps most underutilized of Delicious’s deliciousness is as a search tool. Interested in alien abductions? Search Delicious and find out what other abduction fans bookmark the most. Rather than using hit counts to create relevance (like Google), Delicious makes most relevant what others have saved most often.
It really is Delicious!
And, if you design web pages, you can add your Delicious tags to your web page, instead of adding links to each site.
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I did not know that. Thanks, Sheryl.
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