Deliciousing

by on February 2, 2006

I’ve mostly caught up with my email. 177 answered today.

But now I have hundreds of interesting things to blog. While I’m listening to Bruce Sterling talk about spimes.

Anyway, I have a folder with hundreds of interesting things in it. How do I get those things to you? I’m playing with Del.icio.us. It’s a little faster and keeps my blog cleaner. Anyway, you might watch my Del.icio.us feed over the next day. By the way, I’m using Flock because it has Del.icio.us built in. So, I go to a site that someone emailed me. If I think it’s interesting enough to share with you I just click on the star button in Flock, fill in a description, and post.

Anyone got a better way to quickly share URLs with others?

  • Mo
    There's an official del.icio.us plug-in for Firefox which you may find preferable to using Flock just for its del.icio.us support. del.icio.us has some nice JavaScript bookmarks bar buttons for other browsers.

    blinklist.com seems to be new competitor to del.icio.us—it has some nice features, but isn't nearly as established (and doesn't, as far as I know, provide a migration route from del.icio.us)
  • Darn, had exactly the same to say :-)
    How about this then: I love this blog and I think blinklist is much prettier.
  • Oh yes, sorry, just checked: blinklist allows importing bookmarks from del.icio.us and furl, and from your browser (well, it detected Firefox as my default at least).
  • larry
    Robert,

    Check out this summary of new Apple Tablet patents.

    http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/
  • LoicLF
    Hi Robert,

    You may not have had time yet but you should tag your bookmarks on del.ico.us, it will be easier for people (and you) to go through it when the number of bookmark reaches 100s (which should be soon for you)

    Regarding the del.ico.us plugin to post bookmarks, there is one available for most browsers (http://del.icio.us/help/buttons) and the IE one is also working on IE 7 beta 2. I personnaly use this convenient plugin all the time
  • Delicious is the way to go. (IMHO). Now that you're flocking, start tagging! Or Kevin and the Big Bad Bunny will getcha.
  • Richard
    An independent researcher needed just 15 minutes to find the first bug in the Beta 2 preview release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060202/tc_pcw...
  • I have a "make it del.icio.us" link right next to the comment and trackback links for each post. So all you have to do is click it and you are tken to the del.icio.us UI with URL and Title of the post already filled in.

    Since I put that link up, more of my posts have been showing up on del.icio.us.

    Something simple that works with all browsers.
  • Rmenon
    Add to Windows Live favorites in IE7 context menu
  • del-icio.us will do nicely thanks.
  • HvI
    You can post your daily links directly to this blog. Configure your del.icio.us settings at http://del.icio.us/settings/scobleizer/daily (See this WP support thread for the right configuration http://wordpress.org/support/topic/30774)
  • David
    Flock is an interesting little browser. Will be fun to watch it's growth just like Firefox's.
  • I've enjoyed using del.icio.us to create a mini-blog on the sidebar of my blog by posting the RSS feed from one of my tags on del.icio.us. It's a nice way of highlighting interesting articles/websites onto your site without needing a full blown blog on each entry. I call it my "worth noting" column and I've noticed a few other bloggers doing something similar.

    I'm not sure how you would set it up with a wordpress.com account, but with the regular wordpress, it was no problem at all...
  • Yep, I keep a great running commentary about notable Web 2.0 material on my del.icio.us feed.

    They also provides a nice badge to add down the left side of my site, which actally ends up being pretty popular. I spread more attention around and save personal time. Great stuff.

    Feed: http://del.icio.us/dhinchcliffe

    Site: http://web2.wsj2.com
  • Aymeric
    I prefer the myweb2.search.yahoo.com over del.ici.us, mainly because del.icio.us is too slow, and the search is bad because it takes time to index your new added url. myweb2 from yahoo is really great, I would like to see the same with Windows Live Favorites.
  • LJ Whorfin
    Software Humor

    Why don’t we see any Seahawk fans in Detroit?
    Seattleites don’t want to spend any more time in Detroit than they have to.

    Why do we see Steeler fans in Detroit?
    Coming from Pittsburgh, they think that Detroit is an Upgrade.
  • Nice tag for chuquet.com - memetracker. I like it! Now when people ask me what chuquet.com is, I can tell them: it's a memetracker. Obviously! :)
  • I hate Flock - and I don't see why it is necessary when you can have Firefox customised exactly how you want it. Flock seems to me to be trying to fil a gap in the market that just isn't there.

    I really struggled with finding a point to del.icio.us for a while - I just didn't have the necessary amount of stuff to put in it. Anything I wanted to bring to people's attention, or fix in my memory, I just blogged. Then, as I got more stuff to mention, I started having lists of links in a single blog post. Now, I have that for the more interesting stuff and the rest gets shunted to del.icio.us.

    In a way, del.icio.us is the way weblogs are meant to be: just a list of the sites one visits, with maybe a brief description. Perhaps by making our content more and more lengthy and personal we are making blogging something else - and 'social bookmarking' fills the gap it left behind.
  • Oh, and needless to say (so why I am?!) - your del.icio.us feed was an automatic subscription. Didn't even have to think about it.

    Oh, and while I am here - FeedDemon 2 Beta has a del.icio.us button, very handy.
  • Robert, combine the 'daily blog posting' setting in del.icio.us (as mentioned in comment #11), with some notes (not only tags) when tagging a site, and you have 'ez-posting' enabled :) .

    You'll get a post everyday automatically with all links, tags and notes (think of notes in this context as the 'body' of the post).

    I use it daily, feel free to drop by and check how it looks (I believe Steve Rubel does the same thing).
  • I use the daily post option too. It's pretty simple and my readers say they dig it.
  • Talking about sharing, today my father posted about blogs (something he has been doing for some time already...2001?!) and linked to your book!
    The page is in Portuguese but I thought that you would like to have a look...
    http://www.mariopersona.com.br/blog/archives/00...

    and no...the google translation isn't good enough for this :)
  • Christopher Coulter
    Yep, I keep a great running commentary about notable Web 2.0 material on my del.icio.us feed.

    Wow. All in little own world, del.icio.us is only something a buzzworded-juiced-out geek could ever much use, or appreciate. Share your bookmarks, weee, poin.t.le.ss. Now with some Yahoo editors, taking a gander at something like that, and ranking it more than just social-softwareish and blogger-popularity games, ok, you might have something, something that was lost once Google and the automational noise-generator kicked in, like the web in 1998.
  • I have found something better than delicious a few weeks ago. It's called ClipMarks http://www.clipmarks.com and it is my prime tool for storing bookmarks, commentary, etc. It does ALOT...
  • It's great. A little world of it's own, del.icio.us is only something a buzzworded-juiced-out geek could ever much use, or appreciate. Distributed your bookmarks, point. With Yahoo editors, taking a gander at something like that, more than just social-softwareish and blogger-popularity.
  • Gisli
    You should check out spurl.net - it is a pretty cool tool for doing what you are looking for...
  • makc
    irc. ctrl+c, ctrl+v =)
  • "Wow. All in little own world, del.icio.us is only something a buzzworded-juiced-out geek could ever much use, or appreciate. Share your bookmarks, weee, poin.t.le.ss."

    What do you think bloggers have been doing, when not actually writing new essays and such? Sharing bookmarks maybe? Either way, if you don't like it, it's less effort to just steer clear of it than to grouse about it to the rest of us.
  • john
    Here is a del.icio.us plugin for Internet Explorer: http://www.bhelpuri.net/mischievous
  • Delicious is the way to go. (IMHO). Now that you’re flocking, start tagging! Or Kevin and the Big Bad Bunny will getcha.

    bye
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