I finally tried del.icio.us after seeing site after site declaring the social bookmark site’s greatness to the world. While it is a great idea, storing bookmarks in a database to allow you to access them from any browser, anywhere, I don’t think del.icio.us is right for me. I’ve got plenty of bookmarks that would be fine to post publicly and share, as this seems to be the purpose of the site. However, I also have plenty of bookmarks that go to private and protected sites that I would rather not share with the world. Even though the sites are password protected, having the address out there on a site as popular as del.icio.us is just one less step for a h4×0r to compromise the system. Call me paranoid, but I just don’t like having those bookmarks out there.
To satisfy my programming heart and personal desire for an online bookmarking site, I’m just going to make my own. I’ve been doing so much PHP/MySQL and C#/ODBC programming lately, I might as well just add another project to my list of things to do.
yeah, i read an article on del.icio.us, and i don’t really see the appeal. I went to the site, and again, meh.