Delicious.com

Is anyone else using Delicious? It is an online bookmarking site, which means that wherever you have access to the Internet, you can get your saved bookmarks.

When you save a bookmark you tag it with words that describe it, then you can search for your bookmark by tags. You can see what others are tagging and even just see what the most recent or most popular bookmarks have been.

The other cool things about Delicious are that you can add people to your network. For example, my user name is pendinger, so if you search for pendinger you can see my bookmarks, and if you add me because you have similar interests, you will be able to see what new bookmarks I add. You have a choice of viewing all recent bookmarks, your network's bookmarks, or just your own. I catch myself looking to see what the most popular bookmarks of the day are when I have a few spare minutes.

I use Delicious often times as a search engine too. If you type in a query, you will see all of the public bookmarks that have been tagged with that. It narrows a search down a ton!

When I save a bookmark, there is a little box off to the side that tells me how many other people have saved that bookmark in Delicious. If I click on that number, it will show me those users and I can see what else they have bookmarked in the same category.

Anyway, if you want to share your user name for Delicious here, then we can all check out what great resources we find on the Internet. I think it would help a lot of us find useful sites quicker and easier.

Penny

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Permalink Reply by Chris Parker on November 12, 2010 at 9:25am

Penny, I used delicious for years and just migrated to diigo, another online bookmarking site. Our tech integrater suggested it because of the lists and groups though I am still learning how to utilize them!

Permalink Reply by Jane Zawacki on November 12, 2010 at 11:23am

Thanks for the post! I have used Delicious for quite some time, but mainly just to store my own bookmarks. I never really investigated all the other possibilities. I've just done some exploring and will certainly do more when I have more time! I'm not sure mine are well organized or tagged real well, but my user name is jzvme.

Permalink Reply by Kate Hammond on November 12, 2010 at 12:15pm

I love Delicious but I love Diigo even more, especially for the classroom, for the highlighting and sticky notes. The best part is, that you can sync up your Delicious and Diigo accounts so that your bookmarks are shared across both programs. As a librarian, I like using Diigo for classes, not only by setting up a class Group and building a collection of shared resources for a project, but also for teaching the importance of tagging and controlled vocabularies in information access and management.

Permalink Reply by Penny Hildinger on November 12, 2010 at 1:02pm

I have a Diigo too but I haven't used it as much. I can't remember what the frustrations were, but I have heard there are some cool things on there and will give it a try again.
Thanks Chris and Kate for the reminder....

Permalink Reply by Kerry Boyde on November 12, 2010 at 4:08pm

Hi Penny, I'm an avid fan of Diigo nowadays having migrated from delicious. Diigo has a fabulous highlighter for web pages which is really helpful when you find good articles online. You can even post sticky notes on there which you can share with your network or keep private. The one thing I haven't found is how to view all my tags horizontally in a bundle like you can in delicious, so sometimes if I haven't tagged things specific enough it can be hard to locate my saved sites. I'd be interested to hear how you organise your bookmarks and I'm happy to share my bookmarks with you.

Permalink Reply by Penny Hildinger on November 13, 2010 at 5:01pm

I do have a Diigo. If you have the Diigo button in your toolbar, then you choose "My Library (web)" from the drop down, then your tags are listed on the left side. I am not sure that my bookmarks are really well organized. I have 359 tags in my Delicious. I try to be specific when tagging, so I can search my sites easy enough...
My user name in Diigo is Hildinger. I have 101 tags there too, but I haven't used Diigo in probably at least a few years, I always save to Delicious on my toolbar.

Permalink Reply by Teresa Euken on January 24, 2011 at 5:04pm

I think delicious is great!! I have been using it for a couple of months now. I have just started a Web 2.0 class recently and delicious is a great way to "get organized". I have got everything from school curriculum on it to hobbies at home. What a wonderful tool.

Permalink Reply by gabriela on February 4, 2011 at 7:23am

I've been a user of delicious since 2006. My concern is that for Yahoo it is no longer bussines. You can read about it in their blog:

http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html

I don't know what will come next (if someone buys it and keeps on living or not). What I know is that I can't export all. The export file that delicious generates is an html only with bookmarks and their tags. But not my network (which anyways will be rebuit somewhere else) nor my bunddles. As I am a 4-5 years user with ~600 tags, bundles are quite important to me.

So, as I've been I have question and a recommendation.

Reco: Keep an eye on delicious future, and if you are new to it, keep it's use simple so that if you need to change tool, you won't loose work.

¿How are tags managed in other socialbookmarking tools? (i.e. Diigo)

¿Does anyone know of a trick extending the export tool of delicious to more elements?

Permalink Reply by Penny Hildinger on March 24, 2011 at 1:01pm

Delicious is supposed to be able to be imported to Google Bookmarks, but I have been unsuccessful in doing so.

Permalink Reply by gabriela on March 24, 2011 at 3:21pm

thanks Penny! Actually, I don't know much about google bookmarks, I will study it a bit, but it's good to know there are importing issues.

Permalink Reply by Penny Hildinger on March 27, 2011 at 3:46pm

I am just learning it too. I still prefer Delicious just for the fact that you have your own network and you can see what the most recent and most popular bookmarks are at the moment. I catch mysled browsing them for way too long...

Permalink Reply by Colby Holland on February 15, 2011 at 8:30pm