Bookmark Conundrum
My Web 2.0 vs. Del.icio.us
I have been using del.icio.us for quite some time now and it has made my life so much easier for quickly adding bookmarks that I can easily find without having to worry about a lot of bookmark management. It has some nice bookmarklets you can add to your toolbar so that any Web page you are on, you can quickly add. My adoption of del.icio.us was pretty fast. I tried it out and became an avid user right away.
Yahoo’s beta release of My Web 2.0 directly competes with del.icio.us as well as having added features, like searching the pages you’ve bookmarked — which is definitely an added bonus. Also, you can specify the level of access to a bookmark, a step above del.icio.us’s current offerings. For job-related bookmarks, this is key as it allows you to keep some bookmarks private. To me, some of the features are still in question, like My Community. Where would I build my supposed community from? Also, based on the direction of the feature set, My Web 2.0 will only be as good as the number of people who adopt it.
I want to try it out and see if it is more compelling than del.icio.us, but I am left in a conundrum. Now when I want to bookmark a page, do I bookmark it to del.icio.us, My Web or both? Any suggestions?
One thing that rubs me the wrong way is that Yahoo tries to get you to install the Yahoo bar to be able to add bookmarks to My Web. This is a tricky ploy in my opinion as I don’t want to have that huge honking bar taking up valuable screen real estate. You can add a bookmarklet to your toolbar, but they’ve certainly hidden this in their FAQ, of course.
Anyways, the jury is still out. But My Web could be a major setback for del.icio.us, unless it moves faster to add new features. Too bad Google didn’t buy up del.icio.us. For me, that would be the perfect synergy since I use both constantly.
