Week no. 6 - Del.icio.us

This internet tool allows people to bookmark webpages they find useful and organise them with tags (multiple tags allowed too) so that you can know which websites you have bookmarked for a particular area of interest. You can also write comments on these websites so that at a glance other users can decide whether they want to click on the link and read on.

This is certainly more useful than the usual favorites list in IE, where the list is all jumbled up, in no particular category. Also, you can gain access to websites bookmarked by others by typing in a tag or do a search by typing in key words. Now with Deliciou, you won't need to have your own computer to access your favourite bookmarks, but you just need to sign in to your Delicious account and access them from anywhere.

I have created a Delicious account and saved a few bookmarks (a couple of popular ones which with camera reviews, courtesy of busband) and tagged them with "cameras" and "photography". Funny thing is that when I tried to do search of the Nikon D3 camera by selecting "My bookmarks", nothing was thrown up. Hmmmm...... not sure what went wrong, but lots of information was available under "Everybody's bookmarks". Any comments, anyone?

Here's the link to the website:
http://delicious.com/

To see how other people have tagged a particular website, clikc on Bookmark tab, and the "go to URL". Once URL is keyed in, you will see the nol of times it has been taqgged. Then you can decide to "Save a new bookmark"

If you are already certain that you want to tag a website, then go straight to "Save a new bookmark"

Also, you could subscribe to a tag, say on hamsters, and what people have taqged wil be provided in a listing for your reference.

Ah, one more interesting bit, you can also send these bookmarked pages to other users,(you must add them to your network/group first; will need their user name to do this) or other people can send you something too. You will need to retrieve the bookmarks from an inbox, much like email.