Del.icio.us, The Web’s Most Tasty Word!

Del.icio.us is a great site that I had no idea about until my grad class.  It basically works like your “Favorites” on your web browser, however it does a more and doesn’t confine you into a list, but works for you.  The site is considered a “Social Bookmarking” site that allows friends, family, or even strangers to share websites that interest them.  You can bookmark articles, music, blogs, anything that has a web address on your del.icio.us account.

Tags” are used to label your webpages that you assign to your account.  As you share your tags” with the community they become bold, highlighted, and change in size as more people share the same site.  This shows the user how important a site may be or how often it is visited which may indicate it is a popular site. 

You can use your del.icio.us account to help with research for a project.  You can use it to bookmark your favorite podcasts.  You can turn it into your personalized cookbook if that interests you.  It really has a lot of possibilities depending how much you like to surf the net and find the next best website. 

The best part of del.icio.us is that the site is non-hierarchical as the tags just fall into place as you add them.  You can add as many as you like as you go, or delete them as you need to.  There are no restrictions and the best part us that the site is completely free.  So take some time and explore del.icio.us and see what the tasty talk is all about.