I was recently introduced to Delicious (del.icio.us) and it was a “eureka!” moment for me. I realize that social bookmarking and tagging has been around for awhile but I didn’t realize it would address a real need for me.
At work I often use computers other than my own and can never remember certain internal work urls, which are often long, opaque and code driven. I have them all bookmarked on my own computer but I was handicapped whenever I went into our other studio and I needed to check something.
I feel a bit ashamed that this was new to me—I realize I couldn’t be the only one going through this and that somewhere the need had been addressed. Of course now I’m able to bookmark all of these sites through my new and now heavily used Delicious account, which I access when traveling back to Denver to visit family or on the road at a conference--bit of a work junkie I guess. Or maybe a control freak?
I wonder what the Firefox/Delicious relationship is? In recent upgrades of Firefox I had to reinstall some of Delicious’ functionality. Other Firefox installs, such as the Google tool bar, automatically make the transition to the new version. Or is this simply a unique situation based on how my computer is set up?
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Phew! Thought I was the only one not too familiar with del.icio.us! I had heard of it, but never used it. I will have to start using it.
If I found a site I liked, I would always bookmark that site on multiple computers, having to email myself the site first so that I would be able to open it up then bookmark it on a different computer. I often found myself looking for a site that I bookmarked on my home computer at work or vice versa. Talk about frustrating!
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