Have you heard of this new browser called Flock? It’s supposedly a “social web browser” meaning in non-geek terms that it’s like Flickr, Firefox, and Blogger combined into one. Whenever it gets released, you’ll be able to create and reference blog posts in one click and drag, and hold conversations between blogs with ease, all right through your web browser. Seems like pretty interesting stuff, if they pull it off, and I’m sure they will.

But the other neat thing about this Flock dealy is that it uses del.icio.us for its bookmarks. There are no actual bookmark folders in the browser, it’s all run through this site called del.icio.us.

I’m not the last person to have heard of del.icio.us, but I’m probably the last person to actually have signed up for it. It’s basically a list of links online that you can use as bookmarks or share with friends, or use in a blog (mikeschramm.com has that bloggin’ sidebar over there, but it’s run differently than del.icio.us). This is good news, then, that Flock will be using an online site to keep bookmarks, because that means that if my computer dies, as it did a little while ago, I won’t lose my bookmarks, because they’ll be kept online. So it’s got that going for it. Which is nice.

Anyway, I was creating my del.icio.us links page today, and I notice that it shows you how many other people have linked to the site that you’re linking to. Slashdot.org, for example, is a very popular site, and so 6,735 (as of presstime) people besides me have linked to it. Boing Boing (who has linked to the me in the past, wink wink) has 1,840 other people who have linked to it. Signal vs. Noise: 184. Chicago Craigslist: 79.

And then I entered mikeschramm.com into my del.icio.us bookmarks.

And no one else had linked to it.

Which seems, admittedly, accurate. But even so.

If its any consolation (and it is), no one else has linked to Zulkey.com either, and Claire Zulkey deserves many more links than I do.

So I have a new goal. By the end of the year, my goal is to get at least 10 people to link to me within del.icio.us. Then, and only then, my life will be complete!

Oh, and I can’t wait to see that Flock browser thing. Sounds cool.