Delicious+by+Barbara

What is Delicious?
The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale California.

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web bookmarks from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

Delicious will help you save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.

**//Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere //**
Delicious keeps all your bookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of your bookmarks again. Since your bookmarks are stored online, you can get to them from any computer, whether you're at home, at work or on the road.

//Tag your bookmarks. Collections will naturally emerge //
Folders were the old way to organize your bookmarks. They were great if you only had a few bookmarksand a few folders, but as your collection grew, it became harder and harder to decide what goes where. Delicious has a new and better way: tags.

Tags are simply words you use to describe a bookmark. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. This means, for example, that all of the bookmarks you tag with funny and video will automatically be placed in the "funny" collection and the "video" collection. Since tags work the same way for everyone, you can also check out other people's "funny" or "video" bookmarks. You can even combine tags to see bookmarks with funny and video.

For instance, if you find a recipe online that is both French and vegetarian, simply tag it with "french" and "vegetarian". As your collection of bookmarks grows, you'll see this bookmark on your 'vegetarian' tag page as well as your 'french' tag page. This is also a great way to share your knowledge with friends- as every tag page has an easy to remember URL that you can send on to interested parties.

**//Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return //**
If your friends use Delicious, you can send them interesting bookmarks that they can check out the next time they log in. Of course, they can do the same for you. As you explore the site and find interesting users, you can use the Subscriptions and Network features to keep track of the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.

**//Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web //**
By looking at popular bookmarks for a tag, you'll be able to discover the most interesting bookmarks on the topics you're most interested in. Browse bookmarks on just about anything from the best programming tips to the most popular travel sites, all in an easy to read format. ** //Explore this video to learn more about social bookmarking// __VIDEO__ ** //Social Bookmarking in Plain English // []

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!!!
__Pros__ · Automates the collection and management of your favorite bookmarks · You can access your own bookmarks from any computer · You can share links to websites you like · Tool for research · Free method of advertising · Wide range of people exposed to your website · One click bookmarking · Easy to use · Strong community ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Plenty of content to search
 * I could connect to Flickr through Delicious (KM)
 * There is blogging available (KM)
 * I could add Delicious to my RSS Feed on Google Reader (KM)

__Cons__ ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Standard bookmarking button takes you away from website and then brings you back ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Sites are not necessarily always current or trusted ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Not fancy ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Key words are subject to ambiguity ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Possible mistagging due to spelling errors ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Tags with multiple meanings ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Susceptible to corruption – users may bookmark a page several times or tag it with irrelevant tags in order to influence search engine rankings
 * When using firefox it prompts you to add software in order to add buttons (KM)
 * There were not a lot of privacy options when deciding if your bookmarks would be public or not (KM)