Monday, November 12, 2007

17. Play with del.icio.us

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Categorise and share your bookmarks online!

Social bookmarking


de.icio.us is an online bookmarking manager. It allows you to add bookmarks and share them with others. It's great if you want access to your bookmarks from multiple locations, eg home and office.

Just like Flickr where you can organise your photos using tags, using del.icio.us you can also organise your bookmarks with tags any way you want to.

What makes del.icio.us attractive to its users is the social aspect. You may think you have found some great web sites and then you tag them, but you are also able to see what other people have bookmarked and see what else they have tagged that may be of interest to you. It's a great way of sharing interesting links with colleagues or friends.

Your Task

For this exercise, you need to visit del.icio.us and type something of interest to yourself into the search bar. Find another user's trail and you may just discover a new wealth of information. Let us know what you find and what you think of social bookmarking on your blog.

If you are really keen, sign up and become a del.icio.us user. It's a great way of keeping track of interesting websites, especially if you are someone that works from a few different locations or you want to share links with others.

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This task was written by Andrea Scott, Swinburne University

1 comment:

Durga said...

I am doing it without anyone's help so it is taking bit of time because we don't get lot of extra time to do this. I haven't done much after last Nov.