Monday, November 24, 2008

Golden Delicious

This seems like a good idea.

My bookmarks are numerous and in a mess, simply thtough working on two PCs, at work and at home, and by using three browsers on each. I tried to order this by only saving bookmarks on the same browser on each PC, and by exporting and importing bookmarks betwen them.

However, this resulted in vast numbers of bookmarks - rather than merge the bookmarks, the imported bookmarks were appended to the end of the existing list, as a complete new list - even though many of them were identical in each list. I didn't realise that this had occurred, so in due course I exported the bookmarks again; then I realized that they were simply being appended, except now I had four vast lists of bookmarks!

To have one's bookmarks centrally stored clearly makes sense - and as bookmarks might be seen as one's own demarcation of the Web - and as the Web comprises an ever-growing proportion of the material that we read - then one can only assume that Delicious will play an increasingly important role for us.

I'll forgive them the ludicrous statement: "Search the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe..."

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