Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'del.icio.us'
What's Social Bookmarking Again?
In the video below, Lee breaks down the mechanics, how-to, and advantages of social bookmarking over using plain old web browser favorites or bookmarks.
Secret Source Of All Of My Heh Sites
Better than Digg.com, better than the water cooler, better than emails from your friends, better even than Jeremy Zawodny's del.icio.us.
Mulling Over Yahoo's New Bookmarks App
If you've used the new Yahoo Bookmarks yet or it and Del.icio.us both, what do you make of all this? The revamped Yahoo Bookmarks (Beta) rolled into town this week with some serious fanfare...
Framing myFavorites
Ok, so myFavorites. It's no secret on Earthling that I'm a huge fan of Yahoo's social bookmarking site http://del.icio.us. It's become about as indispensable to me as e-mail, for keeping track of all of the stuff I find online and that people point out to me. I also use it to discover other people's finds, but the part I can't do without is the ability to categorize and hold on to URL's and find them again later. EarthLink saw this as a tool that could be helpful to a much wider set of users than even necessarily knows it exists right now. I think once you're exposed to the simplicity and discoverability of a del.icio.us, it's tough to ever want to go back to browser bookmarks again. And in our internal testing, it was clear to me that in addition to individuals, companies can benefit from its use because when you have a pool of like-minded users, the list of bookmarks they create is really valuable. I'd like for us to be able to offer the public a feed of the things we tag as important.
Is This A Feature Or A Product?
I talk a lot about del.icio.us because it has found a real use in my life, it has features that help me connect with other people, and it has a dirt-simple user interface. The other day when someone asked me what I might write about next, I said that I wish I could use del.icio.us to put events on my friends' calendars. That was before I read about Skobee. Here's how it came up.
More Thoughts On Social Bookmarking From The Road
It's your overstuffed, George Costanza wallet of annotated links. But unlike Costanza's wallet, your online bookmarking account can stay pretty organized pretty easily, because each time you add a link you are encouraged to "tag" it with a word that describes what it is. You pick the word or words. And then the tags become like an overlapping folder system. Anytime you want to pull up everything you classified as "heh," you go to your online bookmarks page and click your "heh" tag. There they are. If you tagged some of them "heh" and "serious," they will show up in both "heh" and "serious". I'd be sunk without it.
Del.icio.us Backup Options
I sat down to write a tutorial on how to back up your del.icio.us bookmarks, but a couple of thoughts intervened before it got out the door. First, I haven't had a chance to properly introduce you to del.icio.us, and...
Panic On The Streets Of Blogland
An estimated 300,000 internet junkies were fiending on Wednesday night after the great Del.icio.us outage of 2005 left them without their usual means to create and keep new web bookmarks. It wasn't a full blackout, as you could still access...
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