Help for the bookmark retarded: Doing more with del.icio.us
The truth is most people still aren't all that Internet savvy. Many of my friends barely email, google search, myspace and youtube. That's all most people need or expect of the Internet and that's fine really. All those cool things like rss feeds, digg, and social bookmarking are really for the elite if we are truly talking vs. the Average Joe. The more beautiful and social the friend and the more retarded they are online.
One thing even n00bs should use is del.icio.us though it isn't perfect for 100% neophyte or the extremely lazy. Even with my Firefox plugin it's not so hot with pulling up appropriate keywords for sites. It always requires a lot of manual keyword additions. Ultimately it's time well spent when you can have an endlessly growing encyclopedia of your favorite sites on the Internet that is easy to sort though-----unlike the mess you'll see in most people's browsers when you go to "bookmarks."
The old browser bookmark system is horribly obsolete. Probably has been for 10 years, but now at least we have alternatives. I myself just wish more people would use them. I tried to teach my sister to use them so that her bookmarks could be accessed from any computer, in any browser, she was ever on.
This article has some good tips and he says it better than I do. I reprinted the tips that helped me the most. Visit the link below for them all.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/top-10-ways-to-use-delicious.html/trackback
1. Del.icio.us Firefox Extension
Del.icio.us Firefox Extension should be the number-one del.icio.us tool on your list. It allows you to quickly and easily add sites you like to del.icio.us with a bookmarklet. This tool puts a “My del.icio.us” button at the top of your browser, allowing you to view your save pages at the click of a button.
It also adds a “Tag this” button to the top of your browser, which allows you to bookmark websites while you’re browsing the Web.
If you use Internet Explorer, download this Internet Explorer Extension.
This Firefox Extension has saved me tons of keyboard time.
2. Increase Your Search Powers.
There are a variety of ways to search del.icio.us.
To view bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, type in:
http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword
To view bookmarks tagged with two or more keywords, type in:
http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword+keyword
3. A variety of del.icio.us Uses
You can use del.icio.us in a number of exciting and interesting ways. Here are a few examples
to get you started:
- Bookmark movies you want to see
- Travel planning
- Bookmark books you want to read
- Bookmark things you want to blog about
- Research
4. Publish Your del.icio.us Bookmarks on Your Website.
In addition to all that, you can also share your latest del.icio.us bookmarks on your websites for all of your readers to enjoy. You can do this using Linkrolls and Tagrolls.
Linkrolls display your latest del.icio.us bookmarks while tagrolls display all of your del.icio.us tags in a tag cloud.
You can see these unique features in action at this blog . His bookmarks are on the left and his tags are on the right.
5. Creative Tagging
My final tip is based on a bit of creative tagging. For my most important tags, I place an “@” in front of them. This moves them up to the very top of my tag list. So, for example, for books that I want to read in the future, I have a tag labeled @books. This simple trick allows me to place my most important tags at the very top of the tag list.
xoxoxoxo,
Izabael
p.s. practice del.icio.us by bookmarking my sites on it!
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