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Do you use Del.icio.us? the great new social bookmarking tool that is all the rage on the web? Essentially is a distributed way to bookmark sites you like, add keywords to them, and share them with your online friends and contacts. I use Del.icio.us to power the sidebar of this site called “Links & Memes”. For the more technical folks in the crowd you can slice and dice the whole database of links via tags and keywords, pull data from the site via a web-based API, and aggregate content other places on the web using RSS generated by Del.icio.us.

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There are several reasons you should probably be using del.icio.us.

Social software is developed from social convention rather than software features. Social software facilitates interaction and collaboration and is changing the way that people communicate.

Shadows is a social bookmarking service for discovering, sharing and managing information on the web. Shadows supercharges this information with a "Shadow Page" — a community blog for any web page that includes views, ratings, tags, and comments by you, your friends and the Shadows community. Rediscover parts of the web you may have visited but couldn’t remember. Discover new people with interests and opinions like yours, and places you wouldn’t find with standard search tools. Build the Shadows community as you tag, rate and discuss your favorite websites, and enjoy the information shared by you, your friends and others.

This article looks at the evolving crop of social bookmarking tools, their functionality and examples of use. The goal is to help nonprofits understand the value of using social bookmarking tools and to determine which social bookmarking tool would be serve their needs. This is directed at nonprofit uses of these tools.

is a sleek web-based manager for your bookmarks, RSS feeds / blogs, contacts and memos. Use it to access to your favorite information from any Internet connection!

Gnosh is a meta-search tool. Think dim sum: Gnosh pulls morsels from all over the web and organizes them on one plate for you. You can learn more about Gnosh here.

Combining the power of people, photos, blogs, tagging and storage in a single free and easy to use online-service

Multipost Bookmarklet Tool - one click submit to send sites to places like Furl or del.icio.us and other social bookmarking services at the same time.

With the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), the claim that Shelley Powers makes in a Burningbird blog entry [1] seems apposite: "This is the user's web now, which means it's my web and I can make the rules." Reinvention is revolution – it brings us always back to beginnings.