Thing 14 - Good, but Not Sure About Delicious

There is a lot to explore with the Delicious  site, and I am still in the exploring process.  I hate to judge before I've seen or used all the things it has to offer. Check out my page: www.delicious.com/ybates

Here's what I've liked, so far: 

•  Delicious has an easy way for capturing sites to put in favorites page.  The ability to have a designated spot in the tool bar so you can just drag and drop is very user friendly. 
•  The ability to search by subject for topics is great and then being able to immediately save the suggestions to your page is fast and easy too.
• The tag system makes is a good "filing" system to find sites later and relate them to eachother.
• The "social" part of the site allows you to follow the favorites of others that might relate to you and your interests, which gives you access to more sites without all the searching work on your own.
• Being able to have a web address that I can give out for others to use would make a good way for students and parents to use access sites easily from home.

Here's what I don't like, so far:

• I'm not a huge fan of the way the page is laid out.  I'm not sure exactly what it was, but something seemed off.  Again, I'm still evaluating and exploring, so it could just take some getting used to. 
• Even though I like the social aspect of following someone else's sites, I felt somewhat overwhelmed.  There were so many sites that I tired of looking at other sites. 

I have used a bookmarking site before called I Keep Bookmarks.  I like the layout of the site with my categories and folders housing my sites where I can find them easily.  It is appealing and easy for me to find things on this site, but that could just be ease of use due to my familiarity with the site.  It is not a site that is as easily accessible for other people to get to like Delicious.  It requires a username and password.  Also, you have to copy the sites you want to add and then edit your page to add them, instead of the simple drag and drop method of Delicious. 

As part of my field experience hours, I am teaching some college After School Programworkers at our school how to use some of these Web 2.0 "things" with the kids in ASP.  When developing a bookmarking site for ASP use, I will ask their opinions about Delicious vs. I Keep Bookmarks.  I'll be interested to hear their oppinions and feedback. The jury is still out for me.