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Here's an idea.
I'm a fan of delicious and tagging in general but unfortunately a lot of content I'm interesting in doesn't find me while I'm surfing the web - I actually still read books, magazines, billboards, watch TV and listen to the radio. The following happens to me a lot - I see an interesting book review; make a mental note to buy it then forget about it - ditto for tunes, films and virtually any product you can imagine. I'm sure I'm not the only person with the short term memory problem. But the people that really have the problem are the companies that are trying to sell those products - every time the above scenario plays out (and I'm sure it does a million times a day) - a potential lead turns cold and a sale is lost or at least delayed.
Imagine a service where all you had to do was remember a short word or alpha-numeric identifier and you could use mail, SMS, the web, the phone to register the things you're interested in. The identifiers could be categorized (ie. radio, print, tv, billboard, etc.) to keep the namespaces smaller and therefore restrict the size of the identifiers easier to remember; avoid errors, etc.. Those identifiers then appear in you delicious queue of tagged items so you can re-categorize them or research them further.
For example - I see a film poster on a billboard - I remember the Identifier ZZG238 for as long as it takes to send an SMS mesage - and I add the context / categories "billboard" "film". When I get home - I connect to the tagging service and see the identifier has been found and resolved and it gives me further options - buy, search, queue, etc. Very simple. There's margin for error - sometimes I'll get the identifier wrong but the context should allow for error correction or allow me to resolve the ambiguity - ie. ZZ?238 - did you mean song or hairspray ? The SMS route can also provide additional context - ie. when and where.
I did see a demo from (HP I think) that used a camera phone to scan a kind of barcode - but that limits you to thing you can see and a fairly close for long enough to take a picture - so it's pretty limited.
Or I could carry a notebook and pen with me at all times 
What do you think - is anyone working on this ? I'd happily be a beta customer
