Week 6 : Exercise 1 : Thing 1 - Del.icio.us

I think I might have posted enough about del.icio.us in my Week 3 post, so I won't go into it more. At that time it related to a mash-up site called deliGoo. In that post, I said... (and I quote)

deliGoo takes [Del.icio.us] one step further. As the name suggests, deliGoo allows you to search through not only your del.icio.us bookmarks, but also the pages which those bookmarks refer to. This is like doing a selective Google search through only the pages that have been important to you.

The significance of this site only really became apparent when I began to work with del.icio.us over a long period of time. The ability to use tags meant that I was saving a lot of sites, with the knowledge that tags would help me to find them. This was all well and good, but often the reason I saved a site wasn't apparent from the tag alone, meaning that I'd look past it when later I searched it out. Using deliGoo I've been able to delve that little bit further than just tags to work out which link is the one I want.

There are other significant aspects to deliGoo that I won't go into, but check out the previous post for more.

As for delicious, I think it's one of the best things since sliced bread, and use it all the time... 374 bookmarked sites and counting!

Links:
My mashups post on delicious and deliGoo
del.icio.us
deliGoo