Thursday, September 21, 2006

Del.icio.us -- Do You use an Online Bookmarking Service?

Ok, so, does anyone use an online bookmarking services like Del.icio.us? It is a great tool that allows you to post all your bookmarks or "favorites" as they say in the dark world of ie.

Here are some useful things that you can do:

1. Import all of your existing bookmarks instantly
2. Create a a free account so that you can login from any computer to access your bookmarks
3. Share your bookmarks with other people through your "network", and through a customized URL given when you start your account: del.icio.us/hismove
4. Tag your sites with keywords for easy future lookup
5. Give all of your bookmarks descriptions.
6. Browse popular subjects and topics and discover sites that are popular to other users.
7. Bookmark your own site to see how many other people have it saved.
8. There is evidence to show that Google may look at sites like del.icio.us in the future to see what sites are popular and it may become a part of their search results.
9. Intall the Del.icio.us button on your browser so you can easily add your bookmarks.
10. Send private messages to other users with these 2 tricks: 1, 2
11. Create an RSS feed of your bookmars to let others know when it has been updated.


Here are a few tips on how to best search through del.cio.us:
  • Tags: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/TAGNAME
  • Combined tags: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/TAGNAME+TAGNAME
  • Popular: http://del.icio.us/rss/popular
  • Popular tags: http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/TAGNAME
  • Users: http://del.icio.us/rss/USERNAME
  • Someone’s inbox: http://del.icio.us/rss/inbox/USERNAME (hint: use YOUR inbox)
  • Media: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:MTYPE+TAGNAME (where MTYPE can be AUDIO, VIDEO, IMAGE and DOCUMENT (caps are not needed, just for example))
  • Filetype: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:FTYPE+TAGNAME (where FTYPE can be any audio or video file types (mp3, mov, etc…))
Have fun...

And, oh, don't forget your anniversary...

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