Social bookmarking is a activity that I really enjoy. I have never heard of Delicious before but I have spent an inordinate amount of time browsing Digg before their last redesign. Delicious is a great way to bookmark things and is generally a pleasant experience and feature rich tool. However, I feel that its purpose of managing bookmarks is done much better by RSS readers; but this is just my personal preference. I could see this having some use in the classroom as teachers could make stacks for new units in a sense giving them a large grouping of resources. However, it would need to be heavily moderated and locked down which would ruin the social part of it. This is though, its only real limitation. Outside of the class room teachers could use it to collaborate with other teachers as was shown in one of the videos.
On another note. For anyone who reads this who really likes the idea of social bookmarking and is really wanting to get into it. I would highly suggest a website called Reddit (warning: may contain mature content). It has its own quirks and is essentially the same website as Digg but with around fifty million users.
I had heard of Delicious, but I didn't know what it was used for. I had a harder time with the RSS compared to Delicious. Maybe that is just me!
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