Delicious

At a glance, here are my thoughts:
A one sentence summary of Delicious: An online bookmark; easy to use, easily organized, downloads current bookmarks, and available from any computer on the web.

Although this is a networking site, and you can add people to your community and view their public bookmarks, the community itself is not very easily navigable. I was able to add people to my network, but could not figure out how to communicate with them.

You can also subscribe to topics, and view what other people are bookmarking. I tried this. I typed in "Brad Pit" (was at a loss, of what to type) I found that you can't use a multiple word tag, so anything bookmarked that mentioned "Brad" came up. This could use a little work.

Although they don't add a must keep tool bar, they do add 2 new buttons to your existing favorites bar. Not so bad, considering, these tools make it very quick and handy to classify and file away websites that interest you.

Delicious has a very simple sign up process, you only have to fill in 4 fields. Then you can import your bookmarks. Since my bookmarks had been lost in Internet haven -or so I thought- I was surprised when 4 pages of them showed up. If you want to use this tool, I suggest the first thing you do is go through and tag all your previous book marks into common categories. Then start adding new ones.

How do I feel about Delicious? It's main bonus, is your bookmarks are now online and you can access them from any computer. A definite plus if you use multiple computers, or are not set up on a network in your home.

You can choose public, or private, for each bookmark; and when you transfer yours, they are all automatically private, so no worries if you have some skeletons in the closet.

As far as the community goes? It definitely could use some work before I would call it a community, currently it's more of a sharing platform.

I will, however, continue to use this website simply because of it's quick and easy filing system, that can be access from anywhere. Find me if you sign up, I'm allsurreal.

Get more info on Delicious here.

Life is All Surreal.

MJB