Social bookmarks

Delicious is another resource that I've been using for over a year. I was drawn towards it because I wanted to escape the rigidity of a favourites list, which is tied to one machine and is very structured in its filing. I do have most websites I use occasionally on it, and it works well; I particularly like being able to add several tags for websites which don't fit into a neat category.

However, I don't use it on a daily basis. The work-related websites I visit a lot are in my favourites and that works better for me than having to sign in to Delicious. At home I use Firefox and so I just need to begin typing a website's name for the URL to appear and again, that's easier than signing in to Delicious. It's the occasional and niche websites where it works for me.

I haven't investigated networks before; I use Delicious and its tags as a convenient storage place for bookmarks rather than for discovery. I can see how it's useful for libraries to have lists of recommended websites for users that are in one place and I really like the flexibility of tagging of them.