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What is del.icio.us?
del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's.
You can use del.icio.us to:
* Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes,
and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
* Share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us
community.
* Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite
-- they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full
of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more.
Explore and enjoy.
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the main
use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows
you to see the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks
from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize
and remember your bookmarks, which is a much easier way to save them
than folders.
You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting
links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can
even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks
that everyone else has saved -- which is made easy with tags.
All you need is a browser like Safari or Firefox and an internet connection.
Here's how to get started.
Here are examples of things you can do with saving bookmarks on del.icio.us:
* Research - Writing an article? Researching an industry? Slaving away
on your dissertation? Use del.icio.us to keep track of all the source materials
and commentary that you find online.
* Wishlist - Go to any commerce site, find what you like, save it
to del.icio.us and tag it as wishlist. Then you can tell people to check
out your wishlist bookmarks by giving them a link to http://del.icio.us/leebaber/wishlist
.
* Podcast - Want to hear some great podcasts? Visit the mp3+podcast
tag combination and start listening. Are you a podcaster? Start posting
your mp3 files to del.icio.us and we will create an RSS feed for you.
* Vacation - Planning a trip? Save links to hotels, activities, and
transportation and use tags like "travel", "vacation",
and "to-visit". Collaborate with friends and family by using
the "for:username" tag.
* Linklog - Save bookmarks to interesting websites and add a bit
of commentary to create a lightweight linklog. Then, use linkrolls or the
daily blog posting feature to include your del.icio.us bookmarks on your
blog or website.
* Cookbook - Whenever you find a great recipe on a website, save
it to del.icio.us. Tag it with the recipe's ingredients or style of cooking,
and then when you're wondering what to make for dinner, you can use your
saved bookmarks to help you remember the perfect recipe.
* Collaboration - Friends, coworkers, and other groups can use a
shared account, special tag, or their del.icio.us networks to collect and
organize bookmarks that are relevant -- and useful -- to the entire group.
What is social bookmarking?
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website, which means it is designed
to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside
your browser. This has several advantages.
First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether
you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.
Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers,
and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration,
or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on del.icio.us
as private -- only viewable by you -- if you like.)
Third, you can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks
and add their links to your own collection. Everyone on del.icio.us chooses
to save their bookmarks for a reason. You have access to the links that
everyone wants to remember. You can see whether two people have chosen
to remember a link, or whether it was useful enough for a thousand people
to remember -- which may help you find things that are useful for you,
too.
What are tags?
Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on
del.icio.us. They're a little bit like keywords but non-hierarchical. You
can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and easily rename or
delete them later. Tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting
your information into preconceived categories or folders.
Find out more about tags, including some examples and ideas about how
you can use them.
OK, now that you know about delicious, go see the delicious site
I have for our Computer Literacy class. Click on the right hand side
to see my bookmarks for different things. For example,if you click
on the Moodle link to see all the favorites or bookmarks I have saved
for you about Moodle, there will be a list of links...just click
on any one of them. Just go see the link below called CompTech8 Delicious
and you will get a feel for this tool.
CompTech8 Delicious
CLICK HERE
to get started with del.icio.us if you want your own delicious account.
CLICK HERE to get to the Delicious homepage
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