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Del.icio.us New Look!

Did everyone see the slick new look for Del.icio.us? They have a totally revamped layout thatdelicious indeed! displays thumbnail pics of all your bookmarked pages and “Digg-style” tallys for how many other people bookmarked the same sites. For those new to Del.icio.us, it is a social bookmarking service where you can store your bookmarks for access on any computer as well as share them with other users and groups. One of the really nice things about the site is the ability to add links to your account using their bookmarklet. Whenever you are surfing the web and come upon a site that you like, you just click a button in your browser’s toolbar and that site will be added to your Del.icio.us account along with whatever tags you would like to associate with it. It is one of the first (that I remember) truly web 2.0 sites that completely embraced the collaborative powers of the net.

Financial Blogs

I’ve recently decided to start taking a hard look at my budget and where my money is going each month. That’s why I was glad to find, through the all-knowing beings over at Lifehacker, some great blogs about personal finance.

Get Rich Slowly is the result of one blogger’s study of multiple personal finance books.Pennies from heaven After reading all these books, he attempted to get his thoughts down in writing with a post called “Get Rich Slowly!” and his blog was born. I found some really helpful articles here including How to Give Yourself a Raise and Make Some Noise to Save Some Money. J.D.’s posts are insightful and concise and his advice is very easy to implement into your own life.

I Will Teach You to be Rich is the brainchild of Ramit Sethi, a recent Stanford graduate and entrepreneur. Ramit mixes some humor into his extremely thorough articles, making for some nice light reading that packs in a lot of great ideas and advice about personal finance. Check out How I Got My Credit Scores and Credit Report for Free and his excellent What’s Easier Now Than Later? series. Ramit has also sends out a newsletter and has various other occupations.

For the geek in all of us…ok, the geek in me, there is Getting Finances Done. This is a mixture of a personal finance blog and David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology which basically makes it the geek equivalent of a speedball. Getting Finances Done has been immensely helpful in the development of my personal budget. I highly recommend 3 Reasons Why Most Budgets Don’t Work (and How to Fix Them) and the excellent follow-up piece, How to Create a Zero-Based Budget.

Whether you are an old pro at managing your finances or just getting started, these blogs are full of great advice and useful information!

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