delicious

Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks. This site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! In 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs.  Delicious uses a non-hierarchical classification system in which users can [|tag] each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms(generating a kind of folksonomy). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL " [] " displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users. (dowloaded from []) Pros It's free. Registration is quick to do. Easy to find information The instructions on how to add a blog are very detailed and explicit. When you register, there are directions on how to share, save, import a bookmark. A centralized place to share on the Internet Great source of information For example, one can find directions on how to use an IPhone. There is a social networking aspect to it. They make frequent improvements to the site. Each bookmark shows related tweets. Cons It was confusing to navigate at first. One has to get used to using tags. Tara Lynch 