Bookmarks, Shmookmarks!
I have always wondered why bother using bookmark sites like del.icio.us when you could just bookmark a web site in your browser. However, now that I have an iPhone, I’ve started to use del.icio.us. It’s not because iPhone and del.icio.us works awesomely together, but it’s rather because I’m using the iPhone to browse and read web sites a lot more than I have with my other cellphone/smartphone devices in the past. So having my bookmarks floating in the web makes it super easy to get access to them whether I’m on my iPhone or MacBook.
Why not just sync them? I could do that, but with the clutter of my web apps for my iPhone, I’d lose my “reading” bookmarks easily.
Haven’t you heard of folders? Yes, I have and am using the default ones that were created in my Safari browser. It’s just nice having my bookmarks accessible from anywhere at virtually at any time. If they were only residing on my iPhone or MacBook, then there might be some instances where I can’t share my bookmarks or access them.
Now, I’m not dumping all of my bookmarks from my MacBook to del.icio.us, but what I am doing is saving bookmarks on things I’d like to write about here. And this works especially well with my iPhone and when I’m just lounging about web surfing with it. And right now, it’s actually pretty darn cool.
It’s too bad the Safari browser for the Iphone doesn’t support the Google tool bar yet. That’s how I keep everything in the same place. You can still use the Google bookmarking feature and have the bookmarks displayed on your iGoogle personalized home page, via a home page widget. You can also export your Firefox bookmarks to Google. You just can’t bookmark items with a single click when using the iPhone.
July 22, 2007 at 3:14 pmHey Dave, thanks for commenting.
While you can tap on the “+” sign to bookmark the page you’re on (with the iPhone), you’re right that it’s not integrated with a lot of other/3rd party bookmarking sites. However, I wouldn’t put it past people to have developed, or will develop, a bookmarklet that could be imported into the iPhone (via Safari on a desktop/laptop). Actually, here’s one for del.icio.us! Something I’ll be trying out later.
I’m ashamed to admit, I don’t use iGoogle all that often and even rarely use Google Calendar.
July 23, 2007 at 9:37 amI like del.icio.us, as well as other social bookmarking services. I feel like I should use them more, at least. I guess an iPhone user will help with that! What is your del.icio.us username? Mine is ‘ryanozawa’ (hardly imaginative, I know). I like to subscribe to other users’ feeds to see what they find worth saving.
July 23, 2007 at 3:44 pmHowdy Ryan, thanks for commenting!
My del.icio.us username is “daferret”. Though what you’ll find in there won’t be all that exciting. heheh
July 23, 2007 at 7:15 pm