Originally posted to the EchoDitto Weblog.

Ladies and Gentleman, meet del.icio.us, the new social bookmarks manager.

The idea is that you put all your favorite bookmarks into one big list. They are organized at first chronologically, but the simple interface also asks you to punch in a few keywords. Then you get a list of keywords along the side which essentially replace the folders you might keep your bookmarks in now.

These keywords also help create interesting relationships among your bookmarks. For example The Washington Post, The 9:30 Club, and Tonight's TV Listings live in three separate folders on my iBook - News, Music, and "Useful". But in My Delicious, they are also collected in a new "DC" category. Pretty spiffy.

Once we all put our bookmarks online, suddenly we can arrange them all in a bunch of neat ways like Newest or Most Popular. Additionally, I can find all the folks who are linking to Detroit Tigers Baseball websites. Or I can discover new indie rock websites linked to by fans of Pitchfork.

I think the best way to describe this is Gmail for your bookmarks, with a dash of Friendster thrown in. I think. If you've got a batter way to describe it, I'd love to hear it.