del.icio.us

I am really excited about this site, which I just started using yesterday. This is an intro from the site's about page:

What is del.icio.us?

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to:

• Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
• Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
• Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.

I've started collecting links for this class. You can see them here. My user name is biancaGLS so add me to your network if you do sign up (you could also post your name in the comment section for this post). I hope that you all will sign up and start sharing sites. This is a great way to keep all of your research in one place so that you can use on different computers. I also think it is easier than a usb key or other storage device.

The site is very intuitive and it is really easy to get started.

If you use Firefox as your browser (it's much better than I.E.) there is a cool extension that you can download. It puts del.icio.us buttons ("My del.icio.us" and "tag this") right on your navigation bar.

-bianca

P.S. There are a few catalog records that I tried to save. The links are expired because ALADIN uses session numbers. You can still copy and paste the titles right into the Gelman homepage and do a search for the books from there.