Delicious is simply delicious

Let's talk about something other than Twitter this week - let's talk about Delicious (formally del.icio.us*, pronounced "delicious"). Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for sharing, storing and discovering your bookmarks.

I don't know about you, but I don't like how browsers store bookmarks - those great web sites you find that you want to store end up getting lost when you buy a new laptop, or when you use more than one type of browser - so prior to social bookmarking sites, I would store my favorite web sites in a txt document on my hard-drive. Then came along social bookmarking web sites - leading social bookmark is Delicious, where I can not only store bookmarks, I can tag them with my own keywords, discover web sites bookmarked by others and share my bookmarks with the world.

Delicious is also clever enough to track how many times a particular Web site gets tagged or bookmarked and it presents the most popular bookmarks on its homepage, which is a great way to

It's definitely worth giving Delicious a try - visit the site, scroll down the homepage and read the headlines on the most popular bookmarks, click on the "Explore Tags" tab and see what's there, search a keyword from your industry (heck put in your company name), set up an account, add some bookmarks, and add some bookmarks (click on the save a new bookmark tool from the top right of every page).

Social bookmarking is worth exploring and Delicious is a great way to dip your toes into this Web 2.0 feature.

* The "del.icio.us" domain name was a well-known example of a domain hack, an unconventional combination of letters to form a word or phrase. Del.icio.us and delicio.us now redirect to the new domain, delicious.com.