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Delicious

The preciseness of one browser feature through the generations of different browsers has been a cornerstone of the internet.  The bookmark has truly stood the test of time and been a go-to function for many web users everywhere.   The problem is that now days most people use the web everywhere which makes the concept of a set of bookmarks locked into one computer a little dated.  Delicious has been around for several years now and is really one of the most simple and most effective bookmarking utilities out there.

Delicious not only pushes your bookmarks onto a website that you can access from anywhere.  Which is really enough to migrate from the crappy bookmarking functions built into most browsers, but, it adds an exceptionally effective tagging system for organizing your bookmarks.  This allows you to add several descriptors to your bookmarks to make them easy to find later.  For example, you could tag a Newsweek article about Russia as Newsweek, Russia, January,2008, or final report.  This would allow you to find all articles from January 2008 or all Newsweek articles very simply.  This simple organization allows you to bookmark anything that could be interesting because managing hundreds of bookmarks isn’t so cumbersome.

Another great feature of delicious is the ability to search bookmarks that other people have tagged.  This is a cool feature for two reasons.  While Google has a great relevancy indicator there is a gap between what people will click on and what they want to revisit.  If you are looking for a specific website say… wordpress templates it is great to be able to search within the sites that other people felt strongly enough to bookmark.  If for some reason you want to keep a bookmark private you have that option too.

These great features combined with simple to use browser buttons makes delicious a great substitute for a the antiquated browser based bookmark systems.

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