Delicious is… well… delicious

I’m sure that you have used the Favorites feature in IE. Whenever you find a website that is interesting and you want to remember the location, click the Favorites button and a link is created for future use.

However if you save hundreds of website links, it can be difficult to remember where a specific website link might be hiding. Enter delicious.com.

Delicious.com is a social bookmarking website. Saving your links in Delicious allows you to create categories and tags for easy retrieval later.

The best feature of Delicious is the ability to share your bookmark selections with others. And of course you can review bookmarks from other users. This social networking feature is great because you can find links to websites that are highly rated by the Delicious network.

Can you digg it?

I’m sitting on the beach near Charleston, SC listening to the Cars on my iPod Touch. I am also writing this article from the same iPod. While that’s pretty cool in my book, that’s not what I’m writing about today.

I have used a website service called Digg.com for over a year now. Digg is an aggregate service for blogs and other RSS enabled websites. Users of Digg send links of articles that they think are interesting.

If that were the end of the story, Digg wouldn’t provide any value. But once someone posts a link to an interesting article, other users vote and comment on the selected article. If users like the article they will cast a positive vote called a Digg. If users don’t like the article then they cast a Bury vote or they don’t vote on it at all.

The amazing thing is if an article becomes popular with positive votes, the original website will be flooded with thousands of visitors in a very short period of time. Maybe your next blog article could become popular via a Digg submission.

Social Networking on the Fly

Today I am writing this article on an iPod touch which is really a mini-computer. I am also listening to Elvis, A Little Less Conversation, while writing this article as well.

Many companies are hard at work on Social Networking applications for networking and sharing with friends. All of the popular applications can be used on any computer with Internet connection. However an amazing transition is taking place.

Websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Digg are building apps for mobile devices such as cell phones. Or in my case, the iPod touch. The Internet along with SMS just got a whole lot more interesting.

Social Networking is the Next Big Thing

To the uninitiated, social networking is changing the landscape of the Internet. Social networking is a place where people develop networks of friends and associates. Websites that use social networking allow you to connect with people of similar interests or hobbies. Popular websites such as Facebook and MySpace let you create profiles where you can post photos and information about yourself such as location, interests, etc. And other users can link to you and share information.

Think of social networking websites as highways connecting people of similar interests. The users of these websites generate content by communicating with each other. And networks are formed quickly by users linking together. There many different types (from aggregate to bookmarking) of social networking websites.