Excercise #13 - Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us advertises itself as a social bookmarking place. Ok, that's what Rollyo does as well. So we have services competing out there in cyber space offering to give folks access to their bookmarks as long as they have an internet connection. You thought your minutes on your cell phone went quickly, just wait until your surfing the web on your phone looking at your Del.icio.us and Rollyo bookmarks. For some reason, to me, Del.icio.us is more eye appealing. Both services let you tag your bookmarks. Tags sound like free form subject headings, no controlled vocabulary. Hummmm. Are these tools useful for library work?? I think pathfinders created that point patrons to available library resources (those in the library and those on the web) are more useful. Since Del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo! I guess it will be around for a while, however to me these tools look like an easy way to create bookmarks and access them from anywhere.