How To Use Delicious
Upon learning how to use Delicious, the social networking bookmarking service can be a very helpful skill for those that use the Internet for hours each day and cannot remember some of the great websites that a person has visited. Remembering websites really isn't a problem when a person is on his or her own computer. Using the favorite buttons are perfect for recalling any website while using your Mac or pc at home, but what happens when you are at the library or at work and you can't remember that cooking website where that video was showing how to prepare poisonous blowfish? Learning how to use Delicious means learning how to use this website based service that will enable you to check out your favorite bookmarked sites from any computer anywhere that has access to the World Wide Web. Delicious means that despite all of the hundreds and hundreds of websites that a true surfer sees and likes each week , all of them can be kept neatly and in very logical order for quick retrieval.
Delicious is owned by Yahoo, and is, at least for now, a free service for website organization. It has a lengthy disclaimer page which releases it from any accuracy or infringement claims. The owners of the website make it clear that any misuse of Delicious will result in someone being disbarred from using it any further. Since it is a public website, bookmarks by individuals are viewable by all users of Delicious, but specific bookmarks can be made private if so desired by the user. The strength of the website is its public service. This public viewing ability enables like-minded surfers to share newly found websites with others that also might be interested in the same information.
When a person opens up the website, the landing page of Delicious is pretty plain and easy to understand. Home, Bookmarks, People and Tags are the four main choices that a person has to check out. Learning how to use Delicious mean that one can explore the website quite extensively without logging in as a user, but in order to look at other's bookmarks, a person must develop an account. Learning how to use Delicious is quite simple; the home page invites a person to check out a friend's bookmarks by just typing in his or her username. That may be the one drawback: one must already have a buddy list or username list developed to take full advantage of the service. But even without a username, one can click on Tags, which is the heart and soul of the bookmarking system.
In learning how to use Delicious, a person quickly finds out that the term Tag means a word one can use to describe a bookmark. They are more than folders; they are words that can very quickly identify particular types of bookmarks. And there is no end to the number of tags that can be placed on one's own page. In learning how to use Delicious, a person can quickly change the grouping of tags, called a tag cloud, from an alphabetical list to one that is listed by the size of the tag. The more websites in a tag, the more prominent the tag will look in the tag cloud.
Students at the university level would be prime candidates to learn how to use Delicious, particularly if they were in study groups. Each member could do extensive online research and then post their favorites or most helpful sources on their particular page. The others in the group could then visit one another's sites and pick out the information needed to complete a project or the course. This website could also be used by teachers, who may want to share with one another various helpful websites that could help illustrate particular lessons in the unit in which they are working. Any grouping of professionals could profit from the work others have done to mine the five billion or so pages of the Internet.
Of course, if celebrities ever shared their user name for Delicious, a whole new wave of excitement could grip those with celebrity worship syndrome. Who wouldn't want to know the favorite websites of Barak Obama, Sarah Palin or Katie Couric? But the designers of this website didn't have this particular application in mind. This website was meant to spur on the ability to categorize favorites even when away from one's own computer. Many people look to education, knowledge, money, fame or other typical marks of success as a defense against trouble or "bad luck" but Christians have a different defense. "Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved." (Psalm 62: 1, 2)
Being able to explore the bookmarks of other may prove someday to be of help to police in being able to profile certain criminals. It may be of real value in dating, especially with a very astute single guy learning the favorite website haunts of that special woman he wants to impress. Can you imagine the impression factor for a guy looking into the eyes of a woman on a first date and mentioning four or five of her personal favorite bookmarked sites and expounding on their content? Only an entreprenuerial type person can fully recognize fully the power of learning how to use Delicious. With the website only being a few years old, the potential is yet undetermined.
Delicious is owned by Yahoo, and is, at least for now, a free service for website organization. It has a lengthy disclaimer page which releases it from any accuracy or infringement claims. The owners of the website make it clear that any misuse of Delicious will result in someone being disbarred from using it any further. Since it is a public website, bookmarks by individuals are viewable by all users of Delicious, but specific bookmarks can be made private if so desired by the user. The strength of the website is its public service. This public viewing ability enables like-minded surfers to share newly found websites with others that also might be interested in the same information.
When a person opens up the website, the landing page of Delicious is pretty plain and easy to understand. Home, Bookmarks, People and Tags are the four main choices that a person has to check out. Learning how to use Delicious mean that one can explore the website quite extensively without logging in as a user, but in order to look at other's bookmarks, a person must develop an account. Learning how to use Delicious is quite simple; the home page invites a person to check out a friend's bookmarks by just typing in his or her username. That may be the one drawback: one must already have a buddy list or username list developed to take full advantage of the service. But even without a username, one can click on Tags, which is the heart and soul of the bookmarking system.
In learning how to use Delicious, a person quickly finds out that the term Tag means a word one can use to describe a bookmark. They are more than folders; they are words that can very quickly identify particular types of bookmarks. And there is no end to the number of tags that can be placed on one's own page. In learning how to use Delicious, a person can quickly change the grouping of tags, called a tag cloud, from an alphabetical list to one that is listed by the size of the tag. The more websites in a tag, the more prominent the tag will look in the tag cloud.
Students at the university level would be prime candidates to learn how to use Delicious, particularly if they were in study groups. Each member could do extensive online research and then post their favorites or most helpful sources on their particular page. The others in the group could then visit one another's sites and pick out the information needed to complete a project or the course. This website could also be used by teachers, who may want to share with one another various helpful websites that could help illustrate particular lessons in the unit in which they are working. Any grouping of professionals could profit from the work others have done to mine the five billion or so pages of the Internet.
Of course, if celebrities ever shared their user name for Delicious, a whole new wave of excitement could grip those with celebrity worship syndrome. Who wouldn't want to know the favorite websites of Barak Obama, Sarah Palin or Katie Couric? But the designers of this website didn't have this particular application in mind. This website was meant to spur on the ability to categorize favorites even when away from one's own computer. Many people look to education, knowledge, money, fame or other typical marks of success as a defense against trouble or "bad luck" but Christians have a different defense. "Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved." (Psalm 62: 1, 2)
Being able to explore the bookmarks of other may prove someday to be of help to police in being able to profile certain criminals. It may be of real value in dating, especially with a very astute single guy learning the favorite website haunts of that special woman he wants to impress. Can you imagine the impression factor for a guy looking into the eyes of a woman on a first date and mentioning four or five of her personal favorite bookmarked sites and expounding on their content? Only an entreprenuerial type person can fully recognize fully the power of learning how to use Delicious. With the website only being a few years old, the potential is yet undetermined.
How To Use Delicious
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