Thing 17 -

Okay. So I completely understood tagging and folksonomy. . . I've utilized tagging quite a bit already on Flickr. . . but I was a little unsure about the benefits of social bookmarking. Why in the world would I want to share my bookmarks with others?
After exploring it, however, I love it!
For one thing, we share desks here at work and never know which workstation we'll be on at any given time, so I had pretty much abandoned bookmarking. But with del.icio.us, not only can I access my bookmarks from any computer at work, but from home as well.
But that's not all! I can check out the other folks who bookmarked something I'm interested in and then check out their bookmarks and possibly find new sites that will interest me. This, of course, would benefit not only personal interests, but research for work as well.
I'm looking forward to playing around a little more with this one.