As you can see at the bottom right of this page, I added a ” My Del.icio.us ” section. I have been convinced by reading Todd and Slacker to add it. What’s del.icio.us? It’s a social bookmark. You create an account and you add your bookmark when you find interesting stuff on the Internet. It’s just this. All bookmark entries are joining with tags. Tags can be seeing as folders; it’s a word in relation with the bookmark’s content. What is interesting is the definition you write with your bookmark entries.
This is a social bookmark. Who says social, say community and also say sharing. No bookmarks are private in the system. Everybody can see your bookmarks and they are automatically added to each tags’ pages. Then, they are rapidly viewable by thousands of people. It’s why the definition you’ll write about your bookmarks entries is important: it’ll help other users to figure out what it talk about. By correctly entering it you’ll participate to increase the quality of the product, then, the quality community.
Another cool feature is the ability to subscribe to other users entries. It’s called an inbox. Each time one of your subscribed users posts a new entry, it’ll immediately appear in your inbox. It’s a kind of bookmark aggregator. It’s really efficient and interesting when you subscribe to users that post interesting stuffs.
How to use it? Todd and Slacker are suggesting using Splur on internet explorer. Splur is the same type of system but you have an add-in software available on IE, Mozilla and Firefox to help you to bookmark your pages. One of the system’s options is to synchronize your Splur and del.icio.us account together; it’s what make it interesting. But I found that the best tool for del.icio.us available is a small Firefox add-in called delicious. It’s easy to use, small, fast and full of features.
Why I had added this feed content on my blog? Because I found really useful stuff each days on the Internet. The problem is that I’ll not do a post for each of them. I don’t want to make this blog a link repository; I want to make this blog a repository of my written thoughts. So, the del.icio.us feed broadcast on my blog is the best tool to archive these two goals: write my thoughts and share my findings. So, I wish that you?ll enjoy this addition!