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Social bookmarks and internet memory
Although not new, two web tools are now available that solve problems and change the way that we think about the internet. Del.icio.us is a free web service that now has a broad following and good support from 3rd party software and services. Its purpose is very simple: social bookmarking. The basics is that your bookmarks or favorites (internet addresses) are saved to the web site and available to the rest of the world. You categorize them as you wish with tags. Tags are similar to folders except that they are not hierarchical, so a bookmark can have multiple tags and tags have no specific relation to one another.
Furl by Looksmart and Yahoo's My Web add/change this idea a bit by actually saving a copy of the page rather than just a bookmark. One way to look at this is that the bookmark is now a snapshot of a web page at a certain point in time. The underlying page might change, but your snapshot stays as it was.
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