Social Networking: Delicious.

Delicious is a way to be able to bookmark all of your websites and keep them grouped together. This way you don't have to continue to type in URL'S which is great time saver. The creators describe it "as social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share webpages from a centralized source". This is a great time saver and something that I would have used if I had of known about it earlier. Just think about all that free time and organization skills I would gained from using this site during year 12 and my uni days. It is a great way to get all of your information and references in the one place. It isn't like endnote where you can actually transfer the references into the actual document but it is a way to keep them together. So I guess that is what the differences and similarities are between them. Endnote you are able to create the bibliography and then move them into your document. But with Delicious you can only have the references in the one place and you still need to make your bibliography separately. The other thing is that it is only for websites. You can't actually put your book references in Delicious.

I think that Catherine said that you can only use it in Firefox, but I am on Safari for Macs and it seems that you are able to use it ok although I haven't had a look at all of the features yet.I think that Delicious is a much better way of organizing your websites than Favourites. I used to use Favourites because I didn't know of anything else and I don't feel that there is much organization at all with this program. You can add folders and keep them all together but with Delicious you can access them any where you are no matter what computer and you can't do that with Favourites. 

It seems to have a lot of features: you can send them to friends by creating a network. Which is a great way to sharing all your sites and information. You can tag your bookmarks which I am now learning a lot about and starting to benefit by using them. You can also find out what other people are bookmarking who might have the same interests as you.    

It is a free service and all you need to is subscribe like most things these days. Thankful they don't really take that long to do otherwise we will be subscribing all day.

So those are my thoughts on Delicious and I will be using them in the future.

candy.