Delicious

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What is Delicious?

It's all about Bookmarks. Delicious is a social bookmarking site designed to help internet surfers bookmark website urls. These bookmarks are retrievable from any computer with an internet connection so you can access your bookmarks from anywhere. Delicious makes it easy to organize, tag, and share your bookmarks. Delicious also makes it easy to search and discover other user's bookmarks.

Why you should bookmark your sites

Have you ever had the problem of having a large collection of bookmarks on your computer, but then while using a friend's computer none of your bookmarks are on their computer. Delicious solves this problem by enabling you to access your bookmarks from anywhere. As long as you have access to an internet connection, you can login and access your bookmarks.

Delicious as a tool for website popularity

Each time a URL is saved to delicious, a # is displayed representing the number of people who have also saved that url. The higher the number, the more popular the site. From personal experience, websites with a high people count link to sites with high quality content.

Delicious as a social network

Delicious allows you to add other users to your network. Why would you want to add other users to your network? simple, to see their bookmarks. Some users are active in adding quality sites to their list of bookmarks. You may want to add friends to your bookmarking network, or random users who have a collection of bookmarks that you're interested in.

Delicious Tips and Tricks

Clicking the number next to a bookmark displays the names of other users who have also saved that url. This is a great way to discover other users with quality bookmarks to discover.

popacular is a great resource that lists the most popular bookmarks from Delicious. You can filter popularity by hour, day, week, month, and all time.

Another great resource is the delicious browser extension found on http://userscript.org The extension lets you filter delicious lists by title, url, popularity, and freshness. The extension is called "Delicious.com sort with freshness"