Social Bookmarking

Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?

Del.icio.us is a really easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere. I am using it to help me remember sites that would be good to recommend to students. I am also using connotea. So far, I have not seen a huge difference in the functionality. Connotea is more academic and following tags to other users tends to give you more academic sources. Del.icio.us is more popular and leads you to a bigger variety of web sites when you follow the tags to another persons library.