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del.icio.us. Bill G. Kelm IDS 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.

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  1. del.icio.us Bill G. Kelm IDS 150: Research in the Information Age April 3, 2007

  2. What is del.icio.us? • Social Software • Store your bookmarks online • Tag your bookmarks • Share your bookmarks with others • Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

  3. Creating an account

  4. Adding new bookmarks

  5. 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)

  6. Tagging example

  7. Importance of tagging • “Ask yourself: What words would people use to find this item? • del.icio.us will provide suggested tags • Tags are searchable!

  8. “Folksonomy” • A practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. Refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. (Wikipedia)

  9. Flickr popularity • Photo sharing web site with an online community • Photos are tagged and browsed by “folksonomic” means • http://www.flickr.com/

  10. My booksmarks

  11. Importing your boomarks

  12. Editing a bookmark

  13. Tag Bundles • Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used. • Create them viasettings | bundle tags

  14. Bundle tags

  15. Rename & delete tags • Settings rename tags • Settings delete tags

  16. 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.

  17. your network

  18. 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.

  19. links for you

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

  21. Searching

  22. 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.

  23. Firefox addons • del.icio.us classic • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532 • del.icio.us Bookmarks • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

  24. del.icio.us classic • Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.

  25. del.icio.us bookmarks • Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account.

  26. RSS in del.icio.us • All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)

  27. Reading a del.icio.us feed • RSS: Short for RDFSite Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. (webopedia.com) • RSS readers both web-based and desktop clients

  28. Bloglines

  29. Credits • Michael Sauers, OCLC

  30. Thank You Comments or questions? Bill Kelm bkelm@willamette.edu

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