Julie Lichaa 10IST: delicious social bookmarking

Done with Kritka and Hinarshi

Explain what it does and how it might be used

· Delicious is an internet site designed to allow you access to any website that you bookmark, no matter what computer you are using. It is a social bookmarking site and is a way for people to accumulate, categorize, find, and control information from web pages on the Internet. Users save links to their favourite and most useful web pages, in order to remember information.

· Delicious allows you to access your information on all computers; you are able to use a school computer, work computer etc. to find your websites. It is extremely helpful because unlike your memory, you can always rely on Delicious.

· It also offers access to bookmarks made by other people with similar interests as yourself, the ability to view friends bookmarks and add them for your own benefit , the choice to tag specific words to make your search within an article easier.

For school it allows people to bookmark websites in which they believe is useful and that they can use so that they can return to the site and not lose the url. Also if you are in a group assignment you can also share your websites with the other members.

Include a series of screen shots that describe how to use it

Tags
Be sure to use descriptive tags for your bookmarks, as they will be key to finding relevant information again. Tags are space-separated, and if you’re using multiple words, they should be run together, such as socialmedia.

Use tags to organize your Delicious bookmarks.

You can start typing in a tag, and it will bring up a drop-down, or you can select it from the complete list of tags below.

Connecting With Others

Adding people

Add other users to your network.

Unfortunately, the only way that other users will know is if you tell them, or if they notice you’re following them in their network listing.

See whom you're following, and who's following you in your network.

Saving a Bookmark

These are your basic options when saving a bookmark.

Whenever you save a bookmark to Delicious, you have several options to fill in about the bookmark. Delicious will automatically pull in the URL and the title (based on the title tag of the page or post you’re saving). You can edit these as needed.

Notes
Notes are your additional description/information about your bookmark.

Your notes will be displayed with your bookmark.

Send
You can share your latest bookmarks with your fans if you think they might like them. Start typing in the name to get a drop-down or use the Send tab to select the fans you want to share with.

Send your bookmark to fans who have the same interests.

You can also add a personal message (up to 116 characters) to your fans about the bookmark.

Send a message with your bookmark.

When you save your bookmark, it will be sent to the other user and arrive in his or her inbox.

Privacy
Want to keep that bookmark to yourself? Simply check the Mark as Private box. Otherwise your bookmarks are visible to anyone who happens to come across your profile.