Social Bookmarking

So, for class we've been asked to create accounts with Delicious, a social bookmarking Web site. I saved a lot of retail stores' homepages and entertainment sites to my bookmarks. Delicious is useful and interesting because after saving a Web site, I was able to see how many other people had bookmarked the same site. I could browse the bookmarks of people who I shared a common interest with, thus giving me access to Web sites I wouldn't normally have known about.

An account with Delicious is a handy tool to have because it immediately mobilizes all my favorite Web pages, making it superior to traditional bookmarking. For instance, if I forgot the name of a site, I could access my account and discover the link to it almost immediately without needing to use a specific computer. Additionally, the links are well organized and include my own descriptions or comments. I think Delicious will be particularly useful when writing research papers. As an English minor, I am often required to write papers using numerous online sources and articles. I typically bookmark all my sources on my laptop; however, Delicious now enables me to save them and transport the links with me to the library without having to take my computer.

While there are various circumstances in which I will rely on Delicious, I typically don't use bookmarking that often. I don't have a huge variety of Web sites that I frequent, and the ones I do visit, I know the addresses and simply type them.

Check out my Delicious bookmarks here: http://delicious.com/ahalin81