del.icio.us and bookmarklets

Ever since Liz wrote about it back in January I've been playing with del.icio.us, which is a "social bookmarking" service, which allows you to save bookmarks, see who else has saved the same bookmarks, what else they're linking to, and feed your bookmarks out as a rss feed.

One of the things that makes it easy and addictive to use is the bookmarklet for posting. A bookmarklet, as I understand it, is a small program (in Javascript) that can be referred to by a bookmark (for instance on the toolbar of your browser), and then clicked on to invoke. In this case, the post-to-del.icio.us bookmarklet allows you to post whatever web page your currently browsing to your del.icio.us list with two clicks and no typing or cutting/pasting of URLs. Very slick and simple, and a great way just to keep saving my list of interesting web things that I mean to look at, as well as sharing them. I find I use it a lot, because it's just so darned easy and convenient.