DEL.ICIO.US and Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking in Plain English with Lee Lefever:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

del.icio.us

1. delicious-quickstart.pdf

1. Most basic uses of the web: Locate and share information on websites
2. "Traditional" (if we can use that term to describe something just a few years old) methods for saving websites included saving bookmarks or favorites to a local computer's hard drive using a web browser. This was great but inherently limited, since those saved websites could ONLY be accessed on ONE COMPUTER with the ONE WEB BROWSER in which they were saved.
3. In contrast, social bookmarking involves the use of web-based services to save and share Internet bookmarks. Social bookmarks are MUCH MORE POWERFUL because they allow MULTIPLE COMPUTERS to access them, MULTIPLE PEOPLE to access them, and through tagging (adding metadata) lead to the organic creation of folksonomies of web links.
4. Collections of web links organized by their tags are sometimes called tag clouds. Examples include:
   1. The current del.icio.us tag cloud: 
   2. The current Flickr tag cloud:
   3. My del.icio.us links shown as a cloud

1. WikiPedia's updated list of social software has a list of over 20 different social bookmarking services.
2. My favorite (and the tool I've invested in, with over 2800 saved and shared bookmarks to date) is del.icio.us. I like del.icio.us' ease of use, the large user base which makes social sharing / networking / discovery of similar links very powerful, and its support of RSS standards. My del.icio.us network is a dynamic list of links shared by others whose interests are close to mine. It's always easy to find great, new, web resources in my del.icio.us network! :-)
3. To get started using del.icio.us, register for a free account.
4. Add the del.icio.us browser buttons to the web browser(s) you use most often to make it easy to add new URLs to your account. This page describes other options for bookmarking with del.icio.us (including a FireFox extension.)

ILOGIN to be able to add additional bookmarks

the password is mother1

select YOUR FAVORITES

You will see all the sites that have been added to the account so far.

TWO WAYS TO ADD SITES:

1) click on POST, add the URL link, hit SAVE, complete the additional information requested, PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR TAGS

2) put a KEYWORD in the SEARCH space to search DELICIOUS itself, and click on SAVE THIS if you like the link, you may add additional information and TAGS

Be sure to SAVE your selections.

http://del.icio.us/help/bookmarks

http://del.icio.us/help/saving

http://del.icio.us/help/sharing

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