In the time since my presentation, I started using an additional bookmarking site, called Radbox. Radbox is a site that combines some features of the sites I've been using, but it focuses on videos. It's designed so that you have an "Add to Radbox" icon on your bookmarks bar, and then you click it when you stumble across a video you want to bookmark. This is useful for when you're in a place where you can't use the audio on your computer, like the library or class, because it takes the video link and saves it on a main page for later. Then, you can watch all of your bookmarked videos consecutively at a later date.
I thought this was an interesting spin on the idea of these online bookmarking sites, since it takes the recently developing YouTube culture and allows users to personalize their own video channels. It capitalizes on the ideas of sites like Digg and Delicious by allowing visitors to the site to participate in developing a stream of what they want to watch, not what has been produced for them. Although Radbox is just starting off, I think that a site like this has a huge amount of potential and I think it (or other sites like it) will be popular in the future.
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