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It looks like one of my favorite sites, the bookmarking utility Del.icio.us, is getting a new name and an entirely new Web site, built from the ground up. The new site will be called Delicious.com, but don't worry. When it launches in the new location, it's still going to have all your old bookmarks. For now, the new version is available only to invited users, but Mike Arrington of Techcrunch got a sneak peak and he's broken down the new features:

• Navigation The navigation bar is now organized into Bookmarks, People, and Tags. The tags section features a new MyTags page where you can see all of your tags in an expanded cloud. On the bar, you can search bookmarks amongst your own, networks, everyone's, or the set you're currently looking at.
• Tag Bar The tag bar features tagging auto complete and sorting alphabetically, by date, and popularity.
• Bookmarks The bookmark summary can adjust the view detail, so you can either get more or less info with a single click. Also, the popularity of a bookmark can be determined quickly by the width and shade of the blue box around the save count. In addition to a complete history of everyone's bookmarks for that web page, you can now see who in your network has saved the page.
• Side Bar The side bar lets you easily see a person's list of top tags. You can also refine your view of bookmarks to specific categories as well. You can also give members in your network nicknames.
• Action Box Act now! The action box provides you with a list of commonly used actions for the current page.

Along with Gmail, Google Reader, and Facebook, Del.icio.us is easily a top-five web site for me. How do I use it?

• Three years of online research (legal and otherwise) is stored there.
• The Life Partners list in the right-hand column is automatically updated using Del.icio.us.
• I use the Del.icio.us Firefox add on instead of the built-in bookmark manager. Bookmarks are synced with any computer as long as the add on is also installed. See my review on my personal blog.
• I often look there first for items I can post on Life is a Thrill. The del.icio.us homepage is a kind of Zeitgeist for the Interweb. Hundreds of thousands of people use the site to bookmark their favorite pages. It's not a bad idea to see what other people think is worth saving.
• I can share bookmarks with my pals. So far I've only got about a dozen friends on the site, but more of you should join. I'm mrshl.