Finally... del.icio.us

Assignment #13 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I've been ignoring del.icio.us for quite some time now...it just didn't look like something I'd need. In these days of good search engines and Google search form in my Firefox toolbar, I just don't have a lot of bookmarks (unlike 10 years ago). Also, the sites that I use most everyday I have saved in my Firefox tabs so they open everytime I boot up Firefox. Plus I'm not on a lot of computers--just my office PCs and my laptop at home. (The same reason I don't need an iPod--I stream my favorite music where I sit.)

But now I've bitten the bullet and set up my del.icio.us account. It was quite simple to register, export my bookmarks from Firefox from my work desktop, then import them to del.icio.us. It was also very simple to add the del.icio.us functionality to Firefox. It took me a bit to figure out that I shouldn't put commas between the tags, but other than that I imported and tagged just under 200 bookmarks in an hour or so. Now that I've done it, I think it will be quite useful. :)