Browsing through Wired.com tonight, I found this article (worth checking out) which lead
me to del.icio.us. Already, we have our online wordprocessor (Writely) and our online picture editor (Snipshot). Enter our online bookmark manager.
del.icio.us describes itself as a “social bookmarking website.” What is social bookmarking, you ask? It’s a fancy, somewhat pompous-sounding way of saying what I said before: it’s an online bookmark manager. With del.icio.us (ooh, typing that irritates me), you can also publish your bookmarks for others. Handy!
To use del.icio.us, you must first register. The log-in page says, “Don’t have an account? Get one!” Crisis diverted. Sigh of relief.
Upon registering, del.icio.us tries to convince you to download an extension for firefox so that you may update de.icio.us with the click of a button. You don’t need to do this. The website itself does everything you need it to.
This is what your main area looks like:
Watch as I add a URL:
And this is your bookmark manager. Clicky, clicky.
Now, many of you might point out that this is similar to Blogrolling, and it is. It’s easier to use, however – AND it has a nifty feature called Tagging. I’m sure you’re familiar with the concept – basically, you’re allowed to assign a keyword (or multiple keywords) to a link for easy searching.
Viola! It’s pretty basic. I intend to use del.icio.us to bookmark the blogs of my wonderful CIS111 classmates so that I may read them from work. BRILLIANT!
Thank you, and tune in next week.
I’ve seen that Del.icio.us mark around, but never knew what it was, and never bothered to look into it. Thank you. And I enjoy reading your writing style.
Comment by Joelle — September 25, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
Well written and it seems like a handy program to use if you have need of tracking your bookmarks. Some how I think I would start pilling up more accounts then I could ever use. Hmmmm..maybe someone can merge this program, Writely, and Snipshot into one easily accessed account.
Comment by Steve Wade — September 26, 2006 @ 11:09 pm
Wow thats pretty sweet, i bookmark stuff all the time. But i dont know if that would really be making it easier. having to sign into the site to add a bookmark or something im not sure. looks helpful though, maybe i’ll try it.
Comment by TheBlueOne — September 28, 2006 @ 2:35 am
It doesn’t seem like something I’d be interested in, but then again I don’t have a whole lot of bookmarks. I generally know what sites I need to get to by name and if I do visit it a lot, I will bookmark it, or add it at the top part of my Firefox browers. Still, it sounds like it could be useful to people who have more sites to visit then they can handle.
Comment by Nachiket — September 28, 2006 @ 3:10 am
Might have been useful last year when Joelle updated the browser and decided we didn’t need any files from the old browser.
Comment by Zicoxite — September 28, 2006 @ 12:51 pm