Social Bookmarking

I’ve been playing around with a couple online bookmarking sites these past couple days. “Spurl.net”:http://www.spurl.net/ and “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us/ appear to be two of the more popular.

These sites basically let you move your browser favorites online so you can access them anywhere. You can also categorize things a bit, too. So far, so good. What I think is really cool, conceptually, is that your bookmarks can also be made available for others to “see”:http://del.icio.us/ckagy. They can also be cross-referenced with the “categories”:http://del.icio.us/tag/astronomy others have set up.

You end up with a nice dynamic web of information. From this you can extrapolate which topics or pages are getting a lot of “attention”:http://www.spurl.net/discover/hot.php, or see what other people have bookmarked in your same topic “area”:http://del.icio.us/tag/tutorials+photoshop.

Very cool, but it strikes me as a solution in search of a problem. What can I do with this other than move from computer to computer and still have all my bookmarks?