A link to the past
Ah, the humble hyperlink. Can you imagine life without them? The web would certainly be a very strange place without them, and would probably never have taken off if it weren't for them.
Some people have even tried to claim they own them, some have tried to stop people using them and of course many still try to make lots of money from them. Thankfully, common sense has [mostly] prevailed and we tend to not think twice about them, [when sometimes we should], save them, and some [more so nowadays in this social web world], like to share them.
Simply delicious
At the most very basic level delicious is a social book marking web site. It's main use is to store your favourite sites online in one place, to allow you to access/edit and update them from any web browser worldwide. You categorise your links by using tags to organise and keep track of them, which is a much more flexible and simple system than using folders. Most of us in days gone by have probably at some point lost all our favourite sites when a computer has crashed or stopped working. Not fun.
So, not only is it simpler to store and organise all your links, but because it's online, you can share them, find and see other links from people you like. You can even make any link you wish private, and therefore only visible to you.
If your using a modern browser such as FireFox and I strongly recommend you do. Then you can also integrate and search through your bookmarks inside your browser, a major development and time saver. Another great tool is simply just the you way you tag your links. Try saving items you like on the web with the tag 'wishlist' meaning you, friends & family can see what you like and can maybe avoid getting you some of those less thoughtful gifts...
All you can eat...
At this point you may think I'm a shareholder, with all this plugging. Nope. I just really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of it all. The design of it is simple, easy to use, with great features, and above all, costs nothing. You can even subscribe to RSS feeds and see what your friends are saving as bookmarks. Feel free to click on the link below, or to the top right of this page, and you can begin to browse through some of the sites on the web I've felt worth sharing.