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Question: this question is del.icio.us

mhaw — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:12:21 -0800

I'm looking for interesting uses of del.icio.us, how do you use it? what are some cool hacks? how do you organize your links? interesting tags? other uses?

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:20:01 -0800

Google replacement is the obvious one. Search likely tags there before hitting the search engines.

Livemarks is mesmerising.

I think there's a lot of space for integrating del.icio.us into other web apps. Cross-site tagging. Haven't seen anyone do it yet, though.

By: BigBrownBear

BigBrownBear — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:21:36 -0800

Lifehacker just had a post on setting up an rss feed through itunes to find mp3s. I tried the mash-up version and it worked surprisingly well.

By: aebaxter

aebaxter — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:27:11 -0800

IMO, delicious is much more useful for putting together a collection of things you find interesting, funny, or useful for reference than it is for more personal bookmarks you use every day like banking, weather, to do's, etc. Things I've learned from using delicious:
1) Keep a toread tag for things that I'm interested in but don't have time to sort through at the moment.
2) Reading the popular tag is the best way to keep up with the cutting edge.
3) Subscribe via RSS to tags you find yourself checking often.
4) Blummy is a nice little bookmarklet that makes posting to delicious really fast and simple.

By: BigBrownBear

BigBrownBear — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:58:44 -0800

I know some people use it to track movies they want to watch (using the IMDb).

By: sennoma

sennoma — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:09:41 -0800

Here's an attempt at a canonical list of del.icio.us hacks, extensions, tricks, and so on.

By: vkxmai

vkxmai — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:53 -0800

I use del.icio.us in lesson plans (usually for a unit, rather than a single-lesson) for one of my education classes. It is a nice way to direct students to groups of pre-selected links that serve as a starting point for finding similar sites.

By: Capn

Capn — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:21:23 -0800

One neat trick is that you can get an RSS feed for any tag search... so if you hunt up, say, this page, get the RSS link at the bottom, and put it in iTunes as a podcast and have it automatically download all "funny" .mov files.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:42:13 -0800

I search delicious instead of, say, DMOZ or other human-compiled hierarchical directories.

I post to delicious mostly things that I either want to be able to revisit or share with friends--I use a little PHP script on my blog to republish my own delicious posts there.

I use Cocoalicious instead of browser bookmarks, for the most part (I'm on a Mac).

I have several keyword feeds from delicious in my feedreader (and several keyword feeds from flickr, for that matter). This is more for my amusement than edification, but what the hell.

By: Juliet Banana

Juliet Banana — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:31:52 -0800

I use it to track things I want to buy(of which there are many). Books, comics, movies, clothes. That way, if I want to find something on Amazon to bring my order up to $25, I have a list of things I actually want rather than something random(amazon+thingsiwant). If I'm going to the comic book shop, I have a list of things to look for(comics+thingsiwant). Etc.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:43:42 -0800

I use it to track the random comments I leave on blogs all over the place. Not that I couldn't do it with regular bookmarks, but with del.icio.us it's a lot easier to ignore the old ones.

By: easternblot

easternblot — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:13:54 -0800

For a while I used an RSS feed of one category of my del.icio.us links to generate frequently updated links on a website, but then I got bored with it and took it down. It worked great through.

By: mr_benn

mr_benn — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:14:05 -0800

Of course you always have your individual del.icio.us inbox (complete with RSS Feed of course!) where u can make a list of tags you are interested in and the site keeps a list for you of any and every new item tagged with any of them. I find myself spending ages poring over this each day.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:39:10 -0800

You can post any Mefi entry you make and want to track.

You can find out how influential you are as a del.icio.us user here (and see what those who top the list are up to).

By: trez

trez — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:28:36 -0800

Using a combination of Daily Mashup, a brilliant posting bookmarklet, and a tag "search engine", del.icio.us is now the most important web service I have ever used.

A useful hack can be to have meta tags, which explain other tags, such as acronyms. E.g., after tagging a site "ajax" for the first time, I'd also tag the corresponding Wikipedia entry using "meta:ajax".

Generally, some kind of very accurate information, such as ISBN or the author's full name, can be useful for finding related links later.

I also find that lots of tags is always better than a few.