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Monday, November 30, 2009

Hmmm...that's del.icio.us!

Last year I was impressed with Delicious.  I thought it was a great place to pool all our collected websites and more importantly sort them by topics via tags so they become searchable. Very nice.

But what about now?

The Twitter connection is a great idea, particularly within a workplace.  It would be easy in inform staff of a new site if they were all connected to the libraries Twitter site.  I notice that though the link says its delicious it actually takes you to the bookmarks site.  Very clean and very simple.

For customers, I'm not so sure I how this would be much different from just adding the link to your Twitter site.


I can't say I use any feature beyond bookmarking in Delicious.  As everything is tagged when added I find it simple to search and have no problem finding my old links.  As mentioned above the new Twitter option is cute and for me give more value to Twitter in the workplace.


As for recommendations, I always like clicking on the numbers to the right of each link showing how many times that site as been bookmarked.  It's interested to see what other people tag sites, it can help give inspiration to reference equiries when the site you have is sort of what you want, but not quite there.

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