Extreme Bookmarking - Selection From 50 Del.icio.us Add-Ons: WeTaste - Robin Good's Latest News: the success of del.icio.us can be attributed to its ingenious reciprocity, allowing you to wander from one topic of interest to another.
Personalized Adaptive Knowledge Discovery, Mapping And Archival System: It's Delicious
goes much beyond the ability to provide a public knowledge mapping and discovery tool as it extends itself to provide the means to recycle and refuel each and every personal "viewpoint" into a new public resource that can be further shared, syndicated and re-used. You explore, discover, review, filter and share with others while following your own personal interests and goals. Is there a better way to learn while enriching everyone else? Very strongly recommended.
Delicious is the brainchild of Joshua Schachter. A truly brilliant service from the same guy who brought you MemePool (started 1998) and also GeoURL.
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W: Unlike many weblogs, Memepool has neither a commenting system that would turn it into a discussion forum nor any significant element of self-revelation by its authors that would turn it into a journal. It simply consists of links, categorized and dated, with a searchable archive, presented with a degree of wit.
W: A meme pool is the sum total of all memes present in a given population. The term is analogous to gene pool.
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Rands In Repose: A Del.icio.us Interview: Yes, Google indexes 8 billion pages and, yes, it serves up the results of queries to those indicies to, well, The Planet Earth... A monthly Zeitgeist reports tells me what The Planet Earth cares about, but I could pretty much guess that the most popular retail query on Google was Ebay. I was surprised that the #2 male celebrity query was Matt Drudge, but I don't actually care. I do care that Joel on Software is gathering the Best Software Essays of 2004. I'm also oddly interested in how to fold a shirt... free graph paper you say? Well, sure. These are topics I learn about from my anonymous del.icio.us peers.... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
brevity.org -- Links to essays in Best Software Writing: Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I.