Slashdot does social bookmarking

Well, this is unexpected. Slashdot has launched a new social bookmarking feature a la del.icio.us. The new system has the requisite tagging, bookmarklet and Popular Bookmarks page, but beyond that it's very rudimentary—there's no way to browse by tags, for instance. Slashdot doesn't seem to be trying to take on del.icio.us, though. According to CmdrTaco, Slashdot Bookmarks "is primarily an extension of our submission bin ... our intent is that this system eventually be used to help us find content for the mainpage." He also says RSS feeds are coming, but just browsing the popular page I've already come upon some interesting links. It will be interesting to see whether Slashdot Bookmarks will take Slashdot in a similar direction to Digg, or if the editorial process will remain more or less unchanged.

Tags: bookmarks, del.icio.us, delicious, digg, slashdot, social, tagging, tags