Online tools

The Internet rocks, no doubt about that, but it can be a bit difficult to find the information you need, without spending most of your day doing it. I have lately discovered a few online tools, that have really helped me manage all the information I either get or come across. First tools is del.icio.us. Before I found this, I had a small bookmark application installed on my server, where I could place links to interesting sites in different categories. The application was ok, but not that easy to work with, and I ended up with having links thrown arround the place. The main problem was, that I had to put a link into a category. But how do you know which category to but it in? is Appleinsider "news", "rumors" or "apple"? That wasn't the problem that kind of "killed" the application for me though. The final blow came when I moved to my new server, because I for some reason coudn't log in. Whithout being able to log in, I couldn't approve new links, and then the app became quite useless. Del.icio.us solved all of these problems, since it doesn't use categories but tags, and since it's managed by someone else (who would actually do something about a login problem :). The way del.icio.us handles tags is brilliant; when I add a new link, I simply choose which tags I find relevant for this link e.g. "news rumors apple" for Appleinsider. When I want to find a link, I can simply just browse my list of tags, and that way find all links that I find has something to do with Apple. The second app is Bloglines. This has releaved me of trying to handle two or more lists of RSS feeds that I follow, as well as making sure that I don't read the same news again. Before I found bloglines, I would have a list of RSS feeds in Thunderbird at work and in Safari at home. Some feeds would be in both lists, with the result that I looked at the same news at least twice when going through both lists, and other feeds would only exist in one of the lists. Now all my feeds are centralised, and since it's a web based app, it remembers which feeds I've allready read.