Most people might not know what del.icio.us is or how it works. For ease of typing, I’ll refer to it as ‘delicious’ since when you type in the word ‘delicious’ in Google, the first result is del.icio.us anyway.
This is delicious.So what is delicious? Chocolates? No, delicious is a social bookmarks manager that allows you to bookmark any webpage using your choice of keywords to remind you of what that page was. You can access delicious from any internet browser, hence having access to your bookmarks from anywhere in the world.
The old way of keeping bookmarks of useful pages was to create a new folder in Mozilla/ IE/ Netscape etc and add bookmarks one by one to your bookmarks list. To retrieve them back you would have to 1) have access to the same computer you bookmarked with and 2) search through the bookmarks based on the website name alone.
Both are quite cumbersome things to do just to search for a website you thought would help for your article/ project as 1) you don’t have access to the same computer all the time and 2) searching through bookmarks by website name may lead you to not finding the specific page you wanted. If you did, it probably took some time.
The Delicious toolbar.Personally, I have the Mozilla Del.icio.us toolbar installed on the computers that I use regularly for research. At a click of a button, you can add a bookmark, along with all the tags you need to help you find that website again at a future date. The toolbar will automatically update your online account (which is FREE) and update your bookmark database.
You can then access you bookmarks from any other computer with the toolbar installed, or just go to the del.icio.us website.
Hope this tip saves you time and effort when you are doing you future business research. It sure helped me.
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