It’s a glorious July 1st here in Canada, also known as Canada Day. The day we celebrate American Independence Day three days early (at least that’s what the Yankee tourists think when the fireworks go off at sunset – honest, I’m not making that up.)
And what am I doing while the rest of the country takes the day off to go to the beach, cottage, park, mountain, forest or other great Canadian outdoor locations? Sitting at my computer messing around with del.icio.us, the not-so-new social bookmarking tool.
Do I like it? Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
Do I understand it? Not really, not yet.
What is it? Here’s how they describe it:
“del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.”
As far as I can tell, it’s an aggregator that not only lets you group your blogs/websites by topic, but it also shows you other blogs that cover the same topics. So far, I’ve discovered Cyberdash.com, Charlie Lowe’s writings on blogging, open source licencing and much more.
I’m going to continue toying with del.icio.us and see where it takes me and I might even post about it. I’m still not sure of its merits or why it is better than a standard aggregator, like Bloglines. If anyone has any tips or advice, feel free to let me know.
Now, I gotta get out and get some sun.
