del.icio.us

Bill G. KelmIDS 150: Research in the Information Age

April 3, 2007

What is del.icio.us?• Social Software

• Store your bookmarks online• Tag your bookmarks• Share your bookmarks with others• Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Creating an account

Adding new bookmarks

Tagging• Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term

associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)

Tagging example

Importance of tagging• “Ask yourself: What words would people

use to find this item?• del.icio.us will provide suggested tags• Tags are searchable!

“Folksonomy”• A practice of collaborative categorization

using freely chosen keywords. Refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. (Wikipedia)

Flickr popularity• Photo sharing web site with an online community• Photos are tagged and browsed by

“folksonomic” means• http://www.flickr.com/

My booksmarks

Importing your boomarks

Editing a bookmark

Tag Bundles• Logical groupings of

related tags you’ve used.

• Create them viasettings | bundle tags

Bundle tags

Rename & delete tags• Settings rename tags

• Settings delete tags

Your network• Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list.

• Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking.

your network

for:• Add the tag for:username to send a

bookmark to another del.icio.us user.

• Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark.

links for you

subscriptions• Like your network but for tags.• Can be limited to a tag when used by a specific

user.

Searching

Privacy• It is possible to mark bookmarks as private,

i.e. not seen by others.

• You must first turn this option on in settings | private saving.

Firefox addons• del.icio.us classic

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532

• del.icio.us Bookmarks• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

del.icio.us classic• Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your

del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.

del.icio.us bookmarks• Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system

with the content of your del.icio.us account.

RSS in del.icio.us• All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS

feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)

Reading a del.icio.us feed • RSS: Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. (webopedia.com)

• RSS readers both web-based and desktop clients

Bloglines

Credits• Michael Sauers, OCLC

Thank You

Comments or questions?Bill Kelmbkelm@willamette.edu