Dot Tom

In celebration of my 500th bookmark on Delicious.com I wanted to offer a Delicious Top 10 Countdown.  With the average user saving 30 bookmarks I’m somewhat of an extreme – Yet for all those who haven’t discovered Delicious, I want to tell you point blank, your missing out on a huge resource that will benefit you personally and professionally.  For kick’s I’ve added my Delicious Tag Cloud to the navigation above if you’re interested in visiting any of my favorite 500.  Here’s my top 10 Countdown:

The Top 10 Reasons Why YOU should use Delicious.com?

Because it’s Owned by Yahoo!  “That’s not a good reason Tom!  What the #@!* are you thinking.”  It’s a simple fact that if you don’t support the competition you’re going to slip into a dictatorship where Google-bots rule the world.  Do you really want that? Your probably one of those guys how goes on Yahoo Answers and replies with a link to Let me Google that for you!  Don’t let the bad man bother you Mr. Yahoo, I still love you and am eternally devoted to Delicious!

Delicious gives you universal access to your bookmarks from any computer so you can remember all the stuff you can’t remember without wasting your own memory.  No it won’t help you to remember to take out the garbage, but it will lead you to the most interesting content on the Internet on the topic of taking out the garbage!

The non-hierarchical classification system allows you to use as many reminders as it takes to help you remember how you classified your precious link in the first place.  Now I just hope I can remember the tag I used, no worries, I’m bound to remember one of the 20 tags I used… see you really can use 20.

If you don’t trust your own judgment about what’s worth bookmarking you can use Delicious.com to research what others are bookmarking so you can follow the crowd.  Hmmm, “follow the crowd”, “take a note, Tom”, he said rhetorically to himself, “this could be a terrific aggregator of popular opinion, wow and imagine the SEO benefits – This is a really great tool isn’t it”?

With over 5 million users and 150 million bookmarks you aren’t alone in your inability to remember everything that’s available on the Internet off the top of your head.  So you should feel as I do, completely normal in your senility!

“You get what you pay for?”  Well, in this case you get way-more because it’s totally FREE to use.  But that doesn’t mean it didn’t come at a price.  Let’s assume that you invested 10 minutes of your time to qualify something as a worthwhile bookmark to save and share.  Let’s assume your time is worth an average of $25/hr.  That means that I’ve personally invested approximately $2000 in Delicious, for ME and YOU!  With over 150 million bookmarks, people have created a focused Internet resource worth more then $600 million.  When was the last time someone invested that kind of cash for your benefit?

All the links are publicly viewable but you can make links private if you want to!  Ok, ok, I know where your mind is drifting, don’t go there!  Honestly some things are best left private – Do you really want to see my Gastroenterologists’ web site?

Regardless of whether you use Firefox, IE or any other browser for that matter, you can have your bookmark resources at your fingertip with Delicious browser toolbar applications.  NO! This doesn’t cost anything either, but thanks for reminding us all about how cheap you are!

I use to travel a lot on business and you know how it seems that virtually every flight you take these days is delayed, so while I may only fly now a few times a year, I’ll be damned if I’m ever going to sit one second longer in an airport then I have to.  Delicious is just the ticket to quick reference on those obscure but useful resources in situations like that!  Now what was that tag I used for the Flight Tracker site, oh yah, flight_tracker…   What’s more you can access their beta Mobile site from your phone or PDA.

And the #1 reason why you should use Delicious.com is to clear your head of all the minutia filling it so that you can relax, enjoy life and perhaps use all those extra brain cells to be more creative and innovative in your life.  You can rest assured that your treasure of great links is safely ensconced at Delicious.com.