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I’ve seen the cute URL del.icio.us before, but I couldn’t be bothered to check what it’s about. Until I saw Budi Rahardjo’s posting about centralized bookmarks solutions. “Cool! I’ll check it out later,” I said to myself. Then I saw some references to del.icio.us again today when I was browsing, so I thought I give it a try.

It works really well so far. It’s dead simple to add a new bookmark, del.icio.us provides you with a bookmarklet, after you sign-up, that you can click whenever you want to bookmark a page, (optionally) edit the description, add some tags to categorize the bookmark, and that’s it. The bookmarks will show on the main del.icio.us page as well as your own in the order it was added.

So to sum it up, the main advantages:

• “roaming” bookmarks: add anywhere, access anywhere,
• categorize the way you want it (with tags), multiple categories per bookmark,
• searchable,
• RSS feed,
• share your bookmarks,
• Mozilla extension,
• free.

Disadvantages (at least for me for now):

• can’t make bookmarks private, everything is public,
• can’t export the whole bookmarks (well, it’s not easy anyway), but not a big deal,
• the author says that it’s a pre-pre-alpha software so it’s not perfect yet, but I don’t know any tech junkie that would be deterred by that kind of statements.

Overall I give it two thumbs up and would recommend it.