We spent a lot of time this fall working on a new site for one of our clients. The site is really fabulous in so many ways -- it takes advantage of many leading social technologies available today, including Flickr, Revver and Google Reader. And that's not the inconvenient part. That's the very convenient part.

The challenge is this: I also use most of these services personally. And in many instances, I have a work account for them, as well. And it's just not convenient yet -- maybe it will never be -- to switch from one account you use on a web-based app to another.

In the course of all this, Rex and I were talking about del.icio.us. We were getting ready to use it on this site, and talking about how to keep it separate from the multiple del.icio.us accounts we both already have.

Me: Let me ask you this. Isn't there some way to --

Rex: No. No there's not.

Hahaha. He already knew what I was going to ask. If you are bookmarking for several different projects, can't you easily switch between your accounts, right there at the point of bookmarking?

No. No you can't.

Ah well. We can do so much now to hook our thoughts, words, images and experiences into those of our friends and colleagues. One day maybe it will be seamless, too.