Del.icio.us

From Regional Knowledge Resource Kit

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Social bookmarking website. The primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks from web references online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can use tags to search del.icio.us to discover useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved.

First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on del.icio.us as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)

Third, you can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection.

• You can use del.icio.us to:

   * Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
   * Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
   * Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.