Delicious is a site to store your bookmarks. Great. I thought that was a job for browsers. Well I suppose it is, but when you use more than one computer regularly keeping synched copies of all your favourite sites becomes a real pain. Especially if using a single-profile shared PC where making bookmarks cannot be done. Also when you make bookmarks only you can see them. You don’t get to share your wonderful finds with the other millions of web surfers. That is why we have delicious.

It has obviously got a really cool web address (del.icio.us) and it is a really cool site. You post your bookmarks, and then you can access them anywhere. The other perk is that you can see what other people are bookmarking, and you can share your bookmarks with others. The sites also allows for the tagging of your bookmarks (translates to: labels in Gmail, tags in flickr) and the bundling of tags into larger catergories. All of this means your bookmarks can be organised and accessible. Get a better idea of what del.icio.us is about on the site.

The great thing is using your Firefox browser you can add a bookmark with this address as the link location and say “deli” as the keyword or even “d”. Then when you find a site you like you just need to go to the address bar (CTRL + L) and type “deli” or “d” and press return. The site you were viewing will be bookmarked, and you will get the chance to add tags, notes etc. You can alternatively make it a button in your browser but I personally value the screen space too highly. At the moment I am using del.icio.us to keep track of sites that I may want to later blog about on here. I anticipate that in the future del.icio.us will act as a full archive of those sites that I have discussed and some that I never got round to chatting about.