http://delicious.com/JanyXu
I’ve finally created a del.icio.us page.
When I first found out about del.icio.us, I was checking out my friend’s profile way back in the early days (a whole 5 years ago). He and I had gotten really close at the end of high school, but since we lost touch in college (and I thought for sure he was dead from a drug overdose or something), I was relieved to find him online. I mean the fact that he could change his profiles on Facebook and add bookmarks to del.icio.us means that he’s all right, right?
But I didn’t join in. There’s a particularly OCD side of me that likes everything in folders and subfolders (you should see my Outlook at work), so a sight of seemingly random links with no organization whatsoever really irked me. I just couldn’t do it. Yes, you could click on tags, but that’s still doesn’t change the homepage from looking like what it really was: a gigantic mess.
New tools were coming out all the time, and after a while, I just forgot about del.icio.us… until two things happened: 1) I read Amanda Gravel’s post on using del.icio.us as an online portfolio and 2) I started seriously compiling all my RSS feeds with Google Reader and discovered so many cool trinkets, posts, sites, etc. and Google Reader/ Twitter favorites just didn’t do bookmarking justice. …That was months ago, maybe even half a year.
Something just didn’t sit right with del.icio.us… it looked so 1.0… so Craigslist without a chance of finding an apartment, job or evil nemesis.
So I kept waiting… until tonight. I’m casually browsing through my RSS feeds, when I see a TechCrunch article on the new del.icio.us. I’d been meaning to check it out anyways, I need somewhere to put all my bookmarks and here’s another profile to ‘prove’ that I’m ‘with it’ or ‘in the know.’ Sure, why the hell not?
As I click through all the set up, I realize, it’s pretty user-friendly. I can definitely (and will) create tags for all the cool web developer types and art sites that I’ve run across. I haven’t quite figured out how to keep my LinkedIn resume and WordPress/Tumblr blogs on top, but I’m sure in the coming week, I’ll keep making update and tweaks.
Yup, ladies and gents… there you have it. My del.icio.us page. Boo-yah!
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