May 15, 2007

Del.icio.us is really delicious

Folks, today we've got another impressive feature used by bloggers: Del.icio.us. This stuff helps you store ,share and discover bookmarks on the net. Any stuff posted on del.icio.us can be viewed publicly by default but you can still bookmark it as private, bookmarks that are imported are set to private by default. This feature is pretty cool because i can display my favorites links on my blog.
Let's talk briefly on how this stuff works:

You need to create an account with del.icio.us to start, during the process you'll install a set of command buttons (one has a TAG on it)that'll help you add new stuff to del.icio.us. click on the "tag" button or "post to del.icio.us" and save your bookmark, but there's another way to do that (which i learnt the hard way since i didn't have any administrator authority on the machines in the lab to install the del.icio.us toolbar); all you've got do is click on "your favorites" and in the search bar, you specify what you're looking for either in del.icio.us, or on the web; then you click on "save this" at the end of the link you wanna save.
Adding a couple of your buddies to your network isn't a big deal, click on "your network", fill in your friend's del.icio.us username and add him/her; his/her name will appear at the bottom of the search bar.
Using del.icio.us you could also subscribe to a bunch of newsletters or webpublication, what you've gotta do is click on " subscriptions", do a search and once again "save this". You can also send a particular link to your fellow who's on your network by clicking on "for:his/her username" in the process of saving the bookmark.
Finally you could also post your favorite bookmarks on your blog simply by copying some ugly and freaky line of codes from your linkrolls onto your blog.