del.icio.us - Wow!
Written on June 13, 2006 – 1:56 am | by Ed Warkentin
I’ve been learning about del.icio.us lately, and am totally excited about it!!
http://del.icio.us/wark
I plan to use it for presentations, in my classroom, and for personal organization and convenience.
For presentations: I won’t have to rely on PowerPoint presentations with links…. I’ll be able to give out my del.icio.us URL, and give a website out to people that will be updated constantly, because it is so incredibly convenient to update!
In my classroom: I will be able to point my students to a group of resources that I think would be helpful for particular unit or lesson. Again, easily updated as more resources are discovered.
Personal organization and convenience: Bookmarks can be placed in more than one category. This is more than any browser can claim. I can send friends my URL, adn tell them to click on “fun” to see some funny videos, or whatever, that I think they might enjoy.
I don’t have to bother with which computer I’m at when I add a bookmark. As long as I have the “post to delicious” URL bookmarked conveniently on the computer, I’m all set!
Next is Bundles. As you see from my tags on the right side of my delicious page, you can put tags into categories. To get started with this, click on “arrange tags” at the very bottom (when you’re logged in to your own delicious page, of course - you won’t be able to manipulate someone else’s)
Please comment and let me know of anything that I haven’t discovered! I want to learn about this web 2.0 technology a lot more this summer!
One Response to “del.icio.us - Wow!”
I forgot to mention another very popular tool that is similar to delicious:
Furl (http://www.furl.net/). If I understand correctly, the main benefit of this tool is that it also saves an archive of the page itself, not just the URL.
I’ll need to explore this one, too…