Power surfers (or online junkies) have always had to deal with bookmarks. How I've come to keep up with them has changed over time. From personal bookmarks on a single machine, I migrated to Yahoo! Bookmarks a long time ago. It lets you access your links from anywhere and if you had the Yahoo! Toolbar installed, made it even simpler to add and retrieve. Problem is that Yahoo! Toolbar was never implemented correctly for the Phoenix/Mozilla Firefox browsers.. so I eventually stopped using it.

With the advent of blogs, I've started using bloglines a lot. That is mad tizzah when a site uses rss feeds. Among one of the newer features, I love being able to clip entries of interest so I can peruse in the future

I've heard of del.icio.us for about a month and while being skeptical and slow to adopt, this link manager seems to get it right, I especially like the use of tags, much like flickr (or gmail for that matter), it makes for easier retrieval/search, and you can share it with your friends (nifty rss feed also provided).. anyway, sounds kinda obscure, but just start using it. The fact that it is an online service (free) lets you access it from any computer on the net as well

Firefox has also changed how I browse the web. I've started putting all my non-rss sites into a bookmark folder, put that folder on my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder for easy access and use the option to open in tabs, which will open each link into a separate tab.. I do that when I get into work and I'm about done

Firefox has reached 1.0, even as a preview release, that shit kinda rocks. If you're stuck on Internet Explorer and are not digging the popups and other spyware, check it out, I've extolled this browser's virtues many a time, but as a recap: tabbed browsing (so only one browser window is opened), search engine drop down menu shortcut, find as you type, popup blocker.. and much more

If you're in the market for a new email reader, Firefox sister app Thunderderbird is not bad either. Using the same programming platform, the folks at the Mozilla foundation have won me over, at least at work (otherwise, my Yahoo! Mail account still rocks, sorta)

Finally, search mastermind John Battelle alerted me to improvements made to A9, Amazon's search engine, and the fine folks over there might finally have something new to offer int the search space. Keep an eye on that for sure, his article on the subject at Business 2.0 is a good read