Never should have gotten started with this today... it's totally addictive. Click on this link http://del.icio.us/wordbiz and you'll see the beginnings of my social bookmarking (which is part of the social networking phenomenon). Sarah Lewis turned me on to this (thanks Sarah!) and now I can't stop. In a nutshell, del.icio.us lets you do three things:
1. Quickly tag, annotate and save links you want to refer to later.
Rather than sending emails to yourself (am I the only one who does this??) or struggling with an endlessly long bookmarks folder in your browser, you can use del.icio.us to organize your links. Normally, you can only find your browser bookmarks on your own computer, of course. With del.icio.us, you can log in from anywhere and see your own bookmarked pages. You tag (i.e. assign keywords) and annotate them so you (and anyone else) can see why you bookmarked them. It's totally cool.
2. Enable others to see what links you find significant and how you've tagged them.
I.e. see http://del.icio.us/wordbiz Note the tiny pink highlighted link under "Blogs Will Change Your Business." As I write, 161 other people have linked to this Business Week (May 3, 2005) cover story. That number will probably be higher by the time you read this.
3. Search on tags (think of them as keywords) you're seeking information about.
For example, click on http://del.icio.us/tag/corporate+blogging Now you see what everyone else interested in this topic has linked to.
BONUS: Subscribe via RSS
Of course, you can subscribe via RSS to anyone else's list of tags... or your own for that matter. Or on a category (like business+blogging) that you're interested in.
Just set up a free del.icio.us account and you're ready to rip... but beware if you have a deadline for something else.
And whence the name del.icio.us?
Oh, and do you get it about the name "delicious"? The folks behind this service wanted a URL that spells out an easy-to-remember (and fun, like google) word. So... they chose a .us domain extension. And set up "del." as the subdomain. Clever branding, huh?!
Addendum
Forgot to mention. Flickr (acquired in March 2005 by Yahoo) does the same thing for photos that del.icio.us does for links.
Previous Comments
MyCapitalWeb.com LLC said on April 28, 2005 at 06:22 PM
Social bookmarking explained clearly
Debbie Weil, a business blogging consultant and one of the pathfinders in the whole blogosphere, and the publisher of an extremely useful and helpful newsletter, provides a great explanation of social book marking as exercised by the software del.icio….
How To Blog For Fun & Profit! said on May 6, 2005 at 12:28 AM
Debbie Weil gets delirious with Delicious
Here’s a great, quick and clear overview of tagging with Delicious from Debbie Weil. Debbie shares 3 ways that tagging is a powerful of extension ...
Lucky Balaraman said on May 6, 2005 at 04:02 AM
Debbie, isn’t Delicious very similar to Furl??
Cheers
Lucky
Online Business Journal said on May 6, 2005 at 11:12 AM
Everybody gets delirious with Delicious
Adding one neat trick to Debbie’s list of things to do with del.icio.us, this post by Oleg Kourapov on 43things shows how he is integrating items posted to del.icio.us into a sidebar, using a tweaked PHP script (original Integrating del.icio.us with ...
Walt Campbell said on May 7, 2005 at 07:19 PM
Regarding the question about Del.icio.us being similar to Furl, they seem to me very different, albeit equally useful, creatures. Furl lets you archive Web pages; instead of downloading a copy of the page to your computer, your store it in your Furl account.
In one sense, Furl is similar to del.icio.us; both make use of tags/keywords when storing content. The difference is in the type of content stored: with Furl, you store Web pages; with del.icio.us, bookmarks.
At least that’s been my experience. I’d be interested to know whether there are further similarities that I haven’t discovered yet.
Walt
PS: I, too, have a blogger to thank for turning me onto both services. They were mentioned in a recent post on Amy Gahran’s blog Contentious (http://blog.contentious.com/).
Connected Internet - Broadband, Mobile and Gaming said on May 11, 2005 at 06:19 PM
Delirious with del.icio.us
Funny how things work sometimes isn’t it? I was trying to
configure my PCs so that I could synchronise bookmarks across them and
then i stuumbled onto this <a href=“http://blogwrite.blogs.com/blogwrite/2005/04/delirious_with_.html” rel=“nofollow”>post by ...
TomorrowConnecting.biz said on September 9, 2005 at 05:44 AM
A del.icio.us Flickr
Links (bookmarks) and photos. Weve all got the, we all use them, but we dont all necessarily share them. Probably because we didnt know we could. But, as were realising, in the Connection Economy, the more you share the ...
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