Social Bookmarks

A little slow onto the bandwagon you might think, but I'm not particularly partial to bandwagons.

I started to get frustrated about having no easy way to bookmark things that look usefull when surfing at home or work to look at later. I end up emailing myself links all the time.

In the process I would CC friends with that particular interest if I thought the material was interesting enough.

Well, del.icio.us social bookmarks is the answer. I was already visiting del.icio.us/tag/perl to keep on top of new 'net articles about my favourite programming language so it makes sense to contribute mine and to get a personal global bookmarking system to boot.

I post links to my own del.icio.us/aufflick area using handy shortcuts on my browsers respective toolbar. I can access them on via http://del.icio.us/aufflick or via RSS. The RSS access is super handy, since it means that my bookmarks can appear in my Firefox sidebar using the excellent RSS plugin.

As an added bonus, I have also hacked up a recent links box in the left column of this site where you can see my 5 most recent bookmarks.

Cool eh?