Del.icio.us Bookmarks

First of all, have you checked out del.icio.us? Simply put:

"del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others. You can access your list of links from any web browser."About Del.icio.us

What this boils down to for me is I get to see what sites are getting good word of mouth on the Web, what's most popular, what's interesting, or what's just fun. I check my del.icio.us bookmarks every day, and I constantly am bookmarking new sites as I come across them with the handy toolbar bookmarklet tool.

1. Sign up, give it a try. Think of a good user name that you won't forget, like HappySquirrel or BananaPhone. Be creative.
2. Install the bookmarklet (it's a popup).
3. "Tag" sites. How do you tag sites? Simply put in a series of keywords that you feel best describes the site that you're at. For instance, some good tags that would describe this site would be:

   web searchengine searchengineoptimization technology internet

4. How do you get back to your bookmarks? Simple. Go to "http://del.icio.us/username", and replace "username" with the name you've chosen.