Delicious Bookmarking Exercise

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It was interesting to explore the various available functionalities within Delicious.  Delicious not only allows one to create and organize content for themselves, but also share, search, and explore what others have saved.  All of the features of Delicious are intuitive, quick, and easy to utilize.  The added value of this tool lies in the ability to search for bookmarks using tags, view the popularity of particular bookmarks, view who bookmarked something, and access ones bookmarks from any computer with internet connection.  The ability to view bookmarks by popularity or by recent activity is also particularly helpful.  

Finding interesting and useful resources on the web by utilizing Delicious also supports efficiency in many ways.  Unlike a list of search results simply from a search engine, the sources on Delicious have to have already been reviewed and determined to be of value to someone for them to take the effort to tag and bookmark it.  The list of tags for a particular bookmark may also offer other search term options for someone to use in their quest.  The tagging feature does have its strengths and weaknesses though, as mentioned in my earlier posting entitled Tag & Find It with regards to tagging in general.  Although tagging does tend to use more commonly used language, because of the lack of controlled vocabulary and the inability for the system to differentiate the various definitions associated with a term, the task of tagging and searching could potentially be difficult.