Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where online users may be able to store and share bookmarks on the Web as well as discover other bookmarks worth knowing about around the Internet. The website started at around the late 2003 and has since accumulated about three million users and has over 100 million of web bookmarks stored on its database from online users.

Del.icio.us is a good way to store and archive your favorite sites on the net. By storing and organizing your bookmarks online through the web, you may be able to go through the information that you like on your favorite websites without the need to memorize them all. Through Del.icio.us, you may also be able to track hot topics that you may want to add into your list of bookmarks since the website also displays other sites that were recently bookmarked by other members.

Ease and Convenience

There are many ways in which you can use Del.icio.us to simplify the way that you look for information on the web. Even with your current bookmarks you would still want to look for other related information online. With knowing how to use Del.icio.us, it can even be made more convenient and easier. You can upload your bookmarked sites on Firefox once you set up and register at Del.icio.us. You will need a user name, a password as well as an email account in order to join in.

Useful Del.icio.us Shortcuts

For one, you can use Del.icio.us to look for other bookmarks using a specified keyword that you have in mind. In order to do this, you can type: http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword

On the address box. You can substitute a chosen keyword for the "keyword" text. For bookmarks that contains two or more keywords, you can type in: http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword+keyword. If you are looking for popular sites on Del.icio.us in any category, you can type in: http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/TAGNAME.

Organizing Bookmarks

If you have accumulated a lot of tags in Del.icio.us, it can sometimes come out as a disorganized bunch of tags. Del.icio.us has put up a search feature that can help you find the bookmarks you are looking for. Another way that you can organize the bookmarks is by bundling them. On your Del.icio.us page, you will see a "settings" button that you can click on. Then you can click on the "bundle tags" that you can find under the tags heading in order to organize your bookmarks in bundles.