Delicious.com – Social Bookmarking

The delicious.com site is basically a social bookmarking service, which permits the users to tag, save, administer and share web pages through a centralized source. The site lays stress on the power of the community, and thus helps to improve how people ascertain, remember and share on the Internet. Those who use this site can avail facilities like book-marking any site on the Internet and can also get it from anywhere. Thus users don’t have to bother with the hassles of having different bookmarks on every computer, but they can have a solitary set of bookmarks, which would be kept in sync between all their computers. The user does not have to be on his or her computer to access these bookmarks and can get their bookmarks through the Delicious website. Users also have the options to share their bookmarks and get bookmarks in return. The provision of sending bookmarks to friends can be done and these are accessible every time a user logs in. There are other facilities like Subscriptions and Network features for keeping track of tags.

This social bookmarks manager also allows the users to easily add sites to their personal collection of links. The user can add descriptive terms to group similar links together and amend the heading or label of the page along with extended notes. The site is a social system that has the ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting. The site enables users to view bookmarks through tags, alphabetically and frequency wise also. The user can also save these with one word descriptions and create groupings of bookmarks.