For years, there has been a site on the web called del.icio.us where anyone could get an account and save their bookmarks.

The advantages of this are huge. Many people have two or three computers at their family's houes. The old one, the new one, and perhaps a laptop.

Some workers need to have 2 computers to do their job. Different operating system or different application requirements is a common reason.

Whenever such folks are on a different computer than the one they regularly use, they are posed with two problems. The bulk of their bookmars are not available in their browser and any new bookmarks they save on their alternate computer will not be avaiable when they switch back to their regular one.

One solution would be to save them to the web. That is where the pages are coming from 99% of the time anyway.

Some people did not like the idea of all their web page URLs being publiically available. They could include account infomration in the URL itself. The pages themselves could contain personal information they did not want to disclose or be associated with.

When Yahoo bought the service they added the option to make any bookmark private. They made a few other changes. For the most part, they left the service alone.

Some new features were added but not not a huge number. In the past year, very few nwe features were added.

This week a couple of changes were rolled out.

The URL for the site has gone from http://del.icio.us/ to the far easier to remember http://www.delicious.com/ - no weird period positions to remember anymore. Yay!

Also, the appearance of the site has dramatically changed.

Another welcome change is performance. The site seemed pretty fast this past year. However, according to Yahoo, it was creaking under the strain of so many users and needed an overhaul to make it more efficient. That change too has been included in this new rollout.

Go to the site yourself and read more about What's New !