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In addition to having one of the most clever domain names (why didn't I think of that?), del.icio.us is an excellent and free online bookmarking tool. Why do we need an online bookmarking tool, you ask? For one, you can access your bookmarks anywhere you are, not just at your home computer. Second, now that we get so get so much news, entertainment, and so much more useful or interesting information from the web, managing bookmarks in your browser can become unwieldy. Until I found del.icio.us, I would email myself the links I wanted to keep to my Gmail account. If I wanted to find a link, I could search my Gmail messages, but talk about clunky.
Del.icio.us makes everything so easy. They walk you through adding little buttons to your links bar that make it a one-click affair to bookmark the site you're currently at or access all of your bookmarks. The real power of del.icio.us comes in when you go to bookmark a site. For every link that you bookmark, you can add as many "tags" describing that link as you want. For example, if you were bookmarking GeekyJock.com, you could add tags such as "technology", "advice", "cool", or "useful". Years from now (or tomorrow) you could search your del.icio.us account for those words (or just click one of the tags) and you'd come right to it. This may not seem like much, but if you've got hundreds of bookmarks, it's a lifesaver.
With del.icio.us, you can even share your bookmarks with the world, or with just your friends and family. It's a neat way to see what people are finding out there in cyberspace.
I'd encourage you to head on over to del.icio.us and create an account. You'll never find yourself saying "I wish I could remember that web site" again.
