Wednesday, July 2, 2008

17. Play with delicious

Watch this video introduction to social bookmarking


Categorise and share your bookmarks online!

is an online bookmarking manager. It allows you to add bookmarks and share them with others. It's great if you want access to your bookmarks from multiple locations, eg. home and office.
Just like Flickr where you can organise your photos using tags, using 'delicious' you can also organise your bookmarks with tags any way you want to.

What makes 'delicious' attractive to its users is the social aspect. You may think you have found some great web sites and then you tag them, but you are also able to see what other people have bookmarked and see what else they have tagged that may be of interest to you. It's a great way of sharing interesting links with colleagues or friends.

Your task

For this exercise, you need to visit 'delicious' and type something of interest to yourself into the search bar. Find another user's trail and you may just discover a new wealth of information. Let us know what you find and what you think of social bookmarking on your blog.

If you are really keen, sign up and become a 'delicious' user. It's a great way of keeping track of interesting websites, especially if you are someone that works from a few different locations or you want to share links with others.

Also, for those who have your own delicious account, you may wish to create a tagroll to display, like the example here on this blog.

How to create a Tagroll for your blog

  • Log into delicious
  • Click on the 'settings' link in the top right corner
  • Under the heading 'Blogging' you will see a link to 'Tagrolls'
  • The Display options and Preview are handily side by side so you can tinker and see the outcome
  • Copy the html script provided
  • Log into Blogger
  • Click on Dashboard
  • Click on Layout
  • Click 'Add a Gadget'
  • Find 'HTML/Javascript' and click the 'Add' button (which looks like a plus sign)
  • Give the element a title
  • Paste in the html code provided by the online app
  • Click on Save


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