With yet another very cool example of how the AJAX technology can be used in conjunction with all of the various resources out there, the circle.ch blog has a pointer to the del.icio.us direc.tor.

del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern browsers to deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts with a large number of records.

The main features are: In-browser handling of del.icio.us bookmarks (tested up to 12,000 records), Find-as-you-type searching of all your bookmarks, with basic search operators, Sort by description, tags, or timestamp, and an Ad-hoc tag browser.

This really is a pretty slick little app - borrowing a bit from the Apple Finder interface to style the lists of tags, it provides the categories and acces to the vast information that the del.icio.us resource holds in an easy to use interface...