After months of work, the new Delicious is almost ready to come out of the oven. When we release it, you'll be automatically logged out of your account and will have to log in again, due to some changes we're making behind the scenes. That means now is a good time to make sure you know your username and password . Your username is what you see in the address bar when you visit your bookmarks ) http://del.icio.us/your_username, soon to become http://delicious.

Over the past year or two, I've been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I'd love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates. I don't know who first realized the potential of Delicious for education,

Do you want some del.icio.us stickers? Or a few del.icio.us bookmarks - the kind you put inside books? We have a surplus of dots here at the tag mines, and we'd like to distribute them more evenly around the world. To get some schwag, mail a self-addressed stamped envelope to the following address: Yahoo! Inc. c/o del.icio.us 2821 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054-1838 We'll fill it with goodies and send it back to you. If you want to,