Bookmark Baloney

I have a lot of Bookmarks or Favourites for you IE Users – poor sad souls that you are and I own a few computers and use two different ones at work, so it is a right pain trying to keep the Bookmarks on them all synchronised with each other. I heard a lot about a service called del.ico.us so a few months back I decided to give it a try. I downloaded the Firefox add-in and imported all the Boomarks from my main Windows Vista PC, my initial impression was not favourable but I decided to give it a try all the same.

I tried to learn to love Delicious as everyone else seemed to be raving about it (although “everyone else” is one of those nebulous phrases that obviously encompasses a lot of intellectually challenged “IT Users”). However I could not develop an affinity for Delicious, my main problem with it is the way it is structured and uses the comcept of Tags and an emphasis on sharing Boomarks. I don’t particularly want to share my Bookmarks with every numpty with a Delicious account, I want to share them between the computers that I use! My main gripe with Delicios though is the way it stores my Bookmarks; imho Bookmarks lend themselves to a hierarchical structure, for example a group (nee folder) called Photography has a sub-group called Software which also has a sub-group called Editors and within here is a link to Picnik. I do not want to have to type the Tags everytime I make a sodding Bookmark, nor do I want a list of Tags that some other pillock has used for the same Boomark, I can do my own filing/organising I neither need or want his … !

I looked around a little more and found Foxmarks, it is early days yet, but so far it looks much more delicious than Delicious.

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