Solution: Access all your bookmarks from anywhere with Deli.icio.us
We'd all be pretty much lost on the Web without bookmarks. I access 30-50 different sites on a regular basis and it's impossible to simply remember the urls of all my favorites. In addition, many sites don't exactly have web addresses that are easy to re-call......especially the Swedish and Dutch ones ;)
Social bookmarking attempts to solve this problem by allowing users to access their bookmarks from any computer at any time. Social bookmarking isn't new but has hit the mainstream over the last 18 months with services such as Del.ico.us (the subject of this post), DIGG, Reddit and Stumbleupon making the headlines.
The concept is quite simple. Users create an account with Del.icio.us and as they're browsing the Web they can add bookmarks to their account in the same way that you add bookmarks to your browser. All the bookmarks you add are stored centrally on the Del.icio.us servers, so you can log-in at any time from any computer and gain access to your bookmarks. Very convenient if you travel a lot, or use multiple computers in the course of your day.
But what about the social aspect? Well when you log-in to your account you can add friends (just like Facebook) and share all your bookmarks with your friends - so it's easy to check out some of the favorite sites that people in your social circle have been browsing. You can also see which bookmarks are the most popular amongst the entire community of Del.icio.us users - so think of it almost as a user generated top-ten list of web sites that's constantly changing.
Check out the video above for a walk-through of some of the features of Del.icio.us - and happy bookmarking!
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