Cool ways to use Del.icio.us
April 25th, 2008 by admin
Del.icio.us is a wonderful way to share your favorite websites with others, and to see what others are linking to.
Here are a few ideas that you can use to make it more powerful:
1. The Firefox del.icio.us plug-in: This is my favorite thing ever. 2 little buttons at the top of your browser allow you to tag links to your del.icio.us account and give you access to view and search your existing links.
There are so many cool ways to use this, but my favorite is creating custom toolbars of favorite tags. Basically, when you make a tag a “favorite” tag, you can select it as a toolbar in your browser. I have separate tags for “presidio” (school stuff), “bills” (all my financial websites), “radio” (internet streaming audio), and “blog” (blogging tools and ideas). You have no idea how much time this saves me, especially the presidio one and the bills one.
The best thing is having access to all of your bookmarks from any web browser, either through the plugin, or through the del.icio.us website.
2. Receive updates automatically: Combine del.icio.us with an rss newsfeed reader, and you can get newly-tagged links right in your reader.
In del.icio.us, your subscriptions and the feeds from people in your network all have the orange “rss” button on the bottom of their respective pages. If you click on that button, or copy and paste its link into your feed reader, you will automatically get updates to whatever tag that page was referring to. You can use this method to get updates from individual people in your network, or individual tags, or you can subscribe to the combined feeds and receive them all together.
In the subscriptions section of your account, simply click the edit link to search and add tags to your subscriptions. In the network section, you can add your friends’ account names. In both cases, any time a new link is added to that friend’s account or to that tag, it will show up in your feed.
As a side note, I personally enjoy using Google Reader for this, because I can access it from anywhere, it is fast, and I like the way it works.
OK, I guess that’s all for this time…hope you find this useful.
