Still more social bookmarking

Okay, so I’ve been using “Spurl”:http://www.spurl.net and “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us for a few days now, and I’ve got to admit that I really like the sidebar they’ve got for “Firefox”:http://www.getfirefox.com. It’s more handy than the bookmark menu in the browser, and I’ve got access to the same set of stuff at work or home. So far, so good.

I’m not sure what the “social” aspect of this gets me, though. I can see of other people have bookmarked this same item. Okay, that’s fine. All it means is that it’s popular. Is it old or out of date? Popularity lists would seem to do little good, because once an item shows up on a list of “hot” items, chances are it will stay there because it has increased visibility.

Open my eyes! Help me see why this is such cool stuff after all.