Rating: 3/5

I was a latecomer to the whole Del.icio.us tagging phenomena to handle web bookmarking. I’d been looking for something to get away from bogging down Safari with random bookmarks I might want to go back to, or send on to someone, versus the few bookmarked pages I use really regularly (those I still keep in my bookmarks bar).

Socialist is a good way to access all those pages you’ve tagged in Del.icio.us. In addition to having your own available to stroll through, you can also subscribe to friends Del.icio.us lists to sift through at your leisure.

You can also add URL’s manually within Socialist if there’s stuff you haven’t tagged on Del.icio.us. It also functions as an RSS reader. Unfortunately some of the UI and functionality isn’t quite as good as other programs, specifically other RSS aggregators. It seems to not like Atom feeds, new Blogger, etc. I’m finding it’s hit and miss as to which RSS actually will show up, so I won’t be ditching my RSS reader for this one yet.

It would be nice if you could somehow pull in existing bookmarks from your current browsers as well. Perhaps that will come in future versions. Also, the ?¢‚Ǩ?ìEmail?¢‚Ǩ¬ù button on mine used to give an ?¢‚Ǩ?ìUnhandled Action?¢‚Ǩ¬ù dialogue (v1.0) and now it just does nothing at all.

There are no help files and on their the website you are referred to forums that are empty. For now it’s a good choice for access to Del.icio.us with room for improvement.

Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

Price: $18.00

Site: http://getsocialist.com/

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