What’s the utility of a site like it? Why would I share something in Delicious (where I have no friends) when I can share it with my friends in Facebook (where I have many)?
I don’t personally have many bookmarks at all, so it’s not terribly important to me to organize the hell out of them. I also have Foxmarks to keep 'em synched between home and work, so that’s cool.
On a totally different track, is there a social utility to tagging and taxonomy? Is there some social use to Delicious that transcends personal organization and peer-group socializing?
A friend recommended it to me when I told him that I keep a bunch of yet-to-be-visited URLs in a file. You can consider it a way of sharing them with yourself, if you use different browsers, multiple systems, etc.
(But then I got lazy about keeping the plugin around or logging into the site, so I went back to using my file since I usually have an SSH session open to my server anyway…)
I don’t personally have many bookmarks at all, so it’s not terribly important to me to organize the hell out of them. I also have Foxmarks to keep 'em synched between home and work, so that’s cool.
You might have more if you could use them more easily. The utility of it for me is that by being able to search through my own tags I’m always pretty sure that I’ll be able to find what I’m looking for if I need to find it ever again.
I found that with regular bookmarking there was strong incentive to not bookmark something as it would make everything else slightly harder to find.
With a tiny bit of forethought on Delicious I’m actually increasing the utility of it every time I use it.
On a totally different track, is there a social utility to tagging and taxonomy? Is there some social use to Delicious that transcends personal organization and peer-group socializing?
Quality of search results.
Delicious is useful for searching because the information is developed by a small(er) group of like-minded peers.
It’s also useful for tracking trends, or finding sites that wouldn’t normally come up in google searches, but are probably what I’m looking for.
Anytime I’m trying to find info on coding or technology I’ll usually take a dip into delicious to see what the nerdarati have been looking at.
I have well over 100 bookmarks in my delicious profile for a variety of things I feel I might need to look at again at some point in time in the future. They range from stuff for work, goofing off (qt3), to web utility (guerillamail). I like having them all in one place and tagged so I can just search for them quickly. Something like Foxmarks takes care of Home/Work but I travel a good bit and like that I can access my bookmarks from any computer. Barring those two reasons, and Andrew’s above, there’s probably not a good reason to use the service.
right. Which is essentially how delicious works but I don’t even need to enter my name or password. Delicious already already has all of my bookmarks, so there is no real impetus to change.
I don’t use it as a subscriber, I just visit the front page now and again for a list of possibly interesting links. Same thing for reddit. I can’t imagine actually wanting to participate in the community.
