I have always wondered what "del.icio.us" was. Now I know! It's a great ways for people to: 1. Save their bookmarks on the web so that, even if their PC crashes, they are still accessible on another PC connected to the world wide web and 2. It is a great way for people to share their bookmarks. Hmm.... I'm beginning to see a pattern here. A lot of the new technologies that I have looked at on this blog so far involve sharing and "del.icio.us" is no exception.
Tagging is a very useful way of pointing people towards information on a certain topic and I must admit that I haven't taken much notice of tags before. But on web sites such as "del.icio.us" and "Flickr" tags have become a powerful tool. For me, however, the concept of a "Tag cloud" is the coolest thing. Just having a whole list of different words in alphabetical order on the page may appear pretty intimidating at first, but once you look more closely at the list and see that it's not an ordinary list, then the real beauty of the system becomes apparent. And that beauty is that the most popular tags are the biggest words! So at a very short glance, you can tell what are the most popular topics. And because all of the words are bunched together, you don't have to scroll down a long list.
Going back to del.icio.us, it is the little things about how it operates that I like so much. For example, if you click on one of the upside down triangles that is next to one of the major headings on the right hand side, you will automatically hide all of the smaller subject headings underneath it. So if you do that on the suthlib del.icio.us page, you will be able to look at all of the major headings on screen at once, without having to scroll down.
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