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April 12, 2007
Del.Icio.Us ... Oh my
del.icio.us!
Before this semester, if someone had told me to "delicious it," I would have given them a weird look. Delicious is an adjective not a verb and why would I ever have to "delicious" anything? Well, thanks to BIT 200, I have had the pleasure of discovering that delicious isn't just a word, but one of my newest favorite internet tools, the social bookmarking website del.icio.us.
What makes the site so great is its ease of use and convenience. If I find a site that I like while I'm randomly searching the web in some random location, I can just post it onto del.icio.us, knowing that I'll be able to find it with the click of a mouse button, since it's virtually stored all in one place.
Not to mention you can organize your links by the tags you assign to each post. You can take this organization further by clustering similar tags into a Tag Bundle. I really liked this feature and utilized it well as evidenced by numerous bundles including "Entertainment", "Fun Stuff", and "Search,Tools,and Tips". It facilitates the process of finding the specific bookmark you're looking for.
What's even better is that you can del.icio.us stalk your friends who have accounts or other people who have really interesting links and see what new sites they've found, thus the "social" aspect of the site. That way, you can find all these links you never knew existed without really trying (making search and discovery that much easier). You can even send links to your friends who are part of your del.ici.ous network. In fact, Tommy, Grayson, and I have are all part of each other's networks.
Since Tommy, Grayson, and I decided to blog about the entertainment industry from movies to music to celebrities, we bookmarked a lot of sites pertaining to that topic on del.icio.us. For example, Tommy liked to surf the internet for official movie websites that he thought were intriguing or stumbled upon through imdb.com. He also looked at Rotten Tomatoes to see what critics thought of certain movies. Since Grayson looooves music, he usually kept abreast with hot artists through their myspace accounts or official websites. As for me, I have a very long list of my favorite entertainment websites that I tracked, which I have mentioned throughout my blogs, my absolute favorites being Pink is the new blog and Just Jared. Those two blogs always have new information everyday on my favorite and not so favorite celebrities complete with hot pictures.
Other interesting things to note about our del.icio.us bookmarks:
Links to our individual del.icio.us accounts:
Posted by paulinad at April 12, 2007 10:21 PM