I’m currently using 5 different websites to bookmark stuff.  They are:

• Delicious (me) - been using since April 2006 (Note: I changed from iciskaye to isallcaps and deleted my iciskaye account)
• Tumblr (me) - been using since December 2007
• Zooltool (me) - joined April 2009
• Pinterest (me) - joined October 2011
• Pinboard (me) - joined December 2011

So how the hell did this happen?  How did I end up with 5?

I was introduced to Delicious during Graduate school (from Elizabeth Lawley).  It was a good way at that time to keep track of my bookmarks.  Later on, I started to use Tumblr as a way to post things that I found amusing but didn’t necessarily wanted to bookmark.  In addition, the visual layout was much more appealing to me than a straight up list with a bunch of text.  (I’m a visual person).

Eventually, I stumbled upon Zooltool and Pinterest and signed up (once I got my invite).  These two are very similar to each other…although Zooltool is more of a Pinterest + Pinboard.

Delicious has changed.  It’s now starting to look a little like Zooltool.

I signed up for Pinboard because of the whole hoopla with Delicious.

My head hurts.  I need to cut down and stick with one or two.  So I’ve come up with a set of things that I need and will be doing some investigative work.  They are:

1. UI
2. Easy to bookmark – I don’t like to click a lot
3. Easy to search
4. Visual appeal  (I find things a lot quicker by looking at images)
5. Export
6. How it works with any other apps that I use
7. Link back to the original

The one thing I need to pin down for myself is how I use/view bookmarking (ex the Tumblr blog).  Are there things I want to keep so I can remember? I don’t know.

I currently have two online identities that I go by on the internet: isallcaps and iciskaye.  iciskaye was the first name that I came up with and registed a domain under.  isallcaps came later and stemmed from a nickname (all caps).  When signing up for various social accounts, I would float back and forth between those two names. But it's getting tiring to remember and which is what. <sigh>