Author: Sharon Housley
Delicious is a social book marking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content
building that is becoming increasingly popular.
In order to ease the burden of producing consistent stream of fresh content,
publishers are turning to users to build, categorize and qualify content. While
this is said to be part of the web 2.0 phenomenon, publishers realize the value
of collaboration.
Social bookmarking allows users to qualify content. With Delicious, each
"bookmark" of a specific webpage is seen as a vote of confidence. The more
people who bookmark a specific webpage, the more credible the webpage is viewed.
In addition to bookmarking a webpage, users "tag" the webpage. The tags are
simply single word keywords that relate to the contents of the webpage. The
tagging associates keywords with the webpage's content, making it easier to
categorize and classify the content of the webpage. If everyone bookmarking a
page uses similar keyword tags, the webpage will be classified as a credible
resource in a specific category.
As a webpage receives more and more bookmarks from different Delicious users,
the listing for the webpage becomes more prominent in the Delicious listings.
Delicious users can bookmark and tag multiple pages within a website. Content
can be tagged with multiple terms. As more users tag the content, it becomes
easier to find similar topics.
How to Use Delicious:
1. Create a Delicious Account
In order to create a Delicious account, you will need to provide a valid e-mail
address, login name and password.
2. Verify an Account
An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address provided when the Delicious account
was created. You will need to click the link in the e-mail in order to fully
activate the Delicious account.
3. Login
Login in to the Delicious account in order to begin bookmarking and tagging
content.
4. Post URL
Enter the URL of a webpage or website that you find to be particularly valuable
or useful.
5. Describe & Tag
Enter a descriptive page title and description that relates to the contents of
the bookmarked webpage. In the final field enter single word keywords that
relate to the webpages content, these will be the "tags".
Why Use Delicious?
Delicious can be used by professionals to share industry resources that are
particularly useful. Delicious users store their favorite websites or resources
online and other users can easily access bookmarks. Often websurfers will use
Delicious to find resources that they consider to be relevant and qualified.
Author: Sharon Housley
Delicious also takes advantage of RSS. RSS feeds can be used to syndicate user
bookmarks or to aggregate content with the same tags. Generating RSS feeds
allows users to syndicate bookmarks or to aggregate content that contains
related tags. Users can also syndicate bookmarks that are created by other users
using RSS feeds.
Bookmarks
Many users generate bookmarks that are all related as in this case of bookmarks
all related to RSS:
http://del.icio.us/rssfeeds or the RSS feed of the same bookmarks at:
http://del.icio.us/rss/rssfeeds
Other user bookmarks don't encompass a single theme as is the case with the
following:
http://del.icio.us/oreck or the RSS feed of the same bookmarks at:
http://del.icio.us/rss/oreck
As publishers struggle to create unique content, they are turning towards web
surfers to qualify and categorize content. As a result social-bookmarking is
becoming more prevalent as users weigh-in.
About the Author »
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll
http://www.feedforall.com
software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition
Sharon manages marketing for NotePage
http://www.notepage.net a
wireless text messaging software company.
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