Of course I have heard of Del.icio.us for about as long as I've been in the 21st Century. It's about time I started keeping my bookmarks there. Many is the time I have been on someone else's computer and wondered, what was that cool site I discovered that day about [something or other]. I have finally created my own Del.icio.us account. Down with procrastination! Yay for 23 Things!
Beyond the bookmarking usefulness of this website, the only way I can envision Del.icio.us becoming useful as a research tool is for people with really bizarre vocabularies discovering sites they were looking for because someone else out there also had the same bizarre vocabulary and tagged that particular site with the bizarre search term. I've heard Tim Spalding talk about how LibraryThing's social bookmarking actually works better than the LOC's subject headings in some cases, and I love tag clouds, but I feel like social bookmarking can only be a secondary research tool at best.
Check out my Del.icio.us network badge:
Aren't I fancy-schmancy.
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