I’ve been bookmarking and tagging various sites and articles I encounter on del.icio.us. You can view my at delicious page, and even pull the rss feed.

Delicious is a social bookmarking manager. It’s basically a place to bookmark webpages online. This has the advantage of comfortably marking and referring to webpages from anywhere. No need to rely on one local machine, or to sync multiple local machines so that all resources are kept the same.

Delicious takes things one step further. With each bookmark, you can apply a number of tags (keywords). Tagging is a recent phenomenon in providing meta-information to objects. Just like how Gmail works with labels, tagging frees you from the static placement of an object in a given category. For example, his post is tagged with Hints and Tools (Note: WordPress calls them categories, however, tags would be more proper).

Delicious still takes things even further. It not only shows which sites are most popular (based on how many people have bookmarked it), but it also shows sites grouped by tags. For instance, if you want to find sites that contain cooking recipes, you can view all sites that have been tagged with “recipe”. This alternate approach to Google is somewhat more personal, as the human element in the filtering process is clearly visible.

There are rss feeds for every tag. So I can keep working here while my news aggregator quietly keeps collecting new sites or articles from delicious tagged with “php” or “ajax”.

There are other sites that make use of the del.icio.us API. One of them is populicious. Populicious aggregates recently bookmarked sites within the last day (or two), and organizes them by popularity, allowing you to easily see where the latest trends. Many of the sites/articles I’ve bookmarked I’ve found using populicious and trendalicious.

This stuff is all very worth checking out. I keep finding new interesting artciles every day, and a lot of them pertain to what we are doing here: ontologies, interfaces, css, php, etc.

Some of my recent items include:

If any of you who reads this is intrigued by any of these articles, please browse through my delicious collection, because I have tons of them! Perhaps you may want to start your own account. It’s free!