Bookmarking

You're probably familiar with bookmarking Web sites on your own computer, but are you familiar with **synchronizing your bookmarks in the cloud**? Are you familiar with **social bookmarking**?

Synchronizing bookmarks and social bookmarking are two topics I'll examine here.

First, __**synchronizing bookmarks**__. The benefit of synchronizing the bookmarks you place in your computer's bookmark folder is that synchronized bookmarks are stored in the "cloud" and can be accessed from anywhere, even across browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome & Safari. If your computer crashes or if you turn in your computer to your friendly neighborhood I.T. department for a pre-summer tune-up, you will lose all of your bookmarks. Bummer. I used to use Xmarks, but I found out in **October 2010 that Xmarks would be shut down** in a few months. Whaaaaaa! But wait...after the initial announcement that Xmarks would be shut down, several investors have expressed an interest in the company. Watch this space for further information. It turns out that by January 2011 Xmarks got a very interested investor, LastPass, a password synchronizing service, and Xmarks lives!

 I signed up for another service called delicious. This is a __**social bookmarking**__ service. I haven't fiddled around with it, but I'd better do so soon. I don't want all of my precious bookmarsk to disappear and I want to be able to back them up 24/7 in case the I.T. Department comes to take my laptop away (ha ha). What I know about delicious is that you can save your own bookmarks AND see what bookmarks folks with similar interests have identified. The second part is what makes delicious //social//. **As delicious is a Yahoo company, so you can access you delicious account by signing into your Yahoo account.**

**Update October 14, 2010--Transferring bookmarks is a piece of cake. Just log into delicious. There's a button for importing bookmarks. Click it and wait about 10 minutes. Nada mas.**