I'm considering using Del.icio.us to replace my normal bookmarking habits considering how disorganized they get, how I can't share them easily between my laptop and desktop, and how I usually lose them or just forget about the backups I make when I reformat. But I'm lazy so I doubt I'll actually end up using it. Plus, Del.icio.us is pretty ugly. Like craigslist, it's one of those weird, anacrhonistic looking gross Web 2.0 staples. It's gotten to the point that it's jarring when a web app doesn't have a snazzy and fetching interface like Flickr or Gmail.
Collaborative tagging is cool but I don't like the idea of forcing people to adopt a static, predetermined lexicon for tagging. Trying to shoehorn the vocabulary doesn't at all seem like the proper way to go about solving the search problem. Seems to me that the burden should be placed on the search function itself, not the user. The search engine should work like a thesaurus a little bit and have knowledge of related terms to the one you searched under. So someone searching under "red" could also get stuff tagged with synonyms like burgundy, vermillion, ruby or whatever.
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