If you are an Internet Explorer user, you have Favorites. With FireFox, you have Bookmarks. Either way, when you switch computers, there is no way for you to access this list of websites quickly and easily. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone created a place for people to store their bookmarks online, so that they could use them on any computer they happened to be using? And even better, offered useful ways to organize and share these bookmarks with other people? Oh, and while we're dreaming, let's have a button on the toolbar along with our other internet tools to mark these pages quickly. Sound like a dream? Not if you use a social bookmarking site!
Several social bookmarking sites are in use currently, and most offer these tools. Some offer more specified tools, such as Diigo. I have not explored this option yet, but a brief check seem to indicate a high level of usefulness for research and other uses that would be aided by sticky notes and highlighting. Others include Delicious, SocialBookmarker, and Digg. While I am sure there are others out there, these three are the most common, and Delicious is perhaps the most widely used of all.
I use Delicious for work, school, and home. At work, I use many different sites with my students daily. If I want a student to work on a particular site I found and bookmarked, I can bring it up on their computer quickly and they can go from there.
You can also view other people's bookmark list, and see which of your bookmarks have been bookmarked by other people. If someone has one of your favorite spots bookmarked, they might have other useful sites you haven't discovered yet!
For more information, this YouTube video on social bookmarking outlines many more uses for this nifty tool.
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