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See: http://delicious.com/louismg/coverage
I wrote about these and a couple of other ways you can "fall in love with tagging again" in this post http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/love-taggi...
If I like something in Google Reader, I'll share it. If I really like it, I'll share it and StumbleUpon it (though I just started using StumbleUpon this week). Then, if I *really* like something, I'll share it, StumbleUpon it, and post it to del.icio.us (and sometimes Facebook if I want my friends to see it).
What I find most useful about delicious isn't so much the individual bookmarks, but rather the sort of "streams" that are created. For example, I can link to http://del.icio.us/balleyne/copyright or http://del.icio.us/balleyne/music (or http://del.icio.us/balleyne/copyright+music) in order to share bookmarks with people, and I can grab the RSS from those streams to embed on my website, etc... I find I use that sort of functionality much more than I ever go back in search of any particular bookmark (the FF3 awesome bar is great for that).
So, *shrugs* to the redesign.
For work, I keep a schedule of future earnings releases, so I have been using an "earnings" tag for purely utilitarian purposes, tagging releases that announce future earnings dates of public companies. It's so narrow and most of the time I'd have no purpose for it.
Having never visited the site itself, I can't remember... did the old Del.icio.us have a similar frontpage leaderboard, like the new one has?
It's kind of Digg-like looking and it confirms that the site really isn't mainstream at all. Like Digg and FriendFeed, it seems like another place to share links about technology.
It seems like a lot of people are sharing links on twitter which seems subpar to sharing them on delicious.
to have done is to integrate it with anything, which seems like kind
of a missed opportunity.
Sure you could do this in your browser by if you don't have access to your PC/laptop and you need to find something, you're pouched. It's better than scouring disparate sites!
Delicious does what it does and it does it well. Anyway, to each their own.
thing? And it's based on a larger sample as well.
I'm a relative newcomer to delicious, but have also never gone back to actually use whatever links I saved - I always end up doing a Google search. However, I think delicious is a great place for keeping hard-to-find-again links that you're saving up for future work like an article/book/project, etc.
I actually experience this more on YouTube (as recent as last night)... I'll see a 'related video' and it might use terms I've never thought to search for... or some newsworthy item that isn't something I'd normally read.
Someone out there was talking about the evolution of newspapers to mobile-- a topic I found quite interesting, and I proceeded to explore it further, but the thing is-- I'd never have thought to put those two things together. Even though I understand mobile and I understand the evolution of print, the value for me was in the 'discovery' of those two topics combined.
That`s pretty much what I´m waiting for for a long time!
nda
I bookmark everything. Need a tshirt: "I'm bookmarking this". But I only revisit very 'specific needs' pages - restaurant listings, that kind of thing - info that generally would be hard to surface in a search without some time spent digging.
I still bookmark the rest but I have no idea why. OCD? Perhaps there's a little Rainman in all of us.
In any event, between restaurant reviews, books I want to read, and the like I actually return to delicious a lot. This probably sez more about Google than it does about Delicious.
I was primary using Delicious (via the FF plugin) to keep my bookmarks in sync between multiple computers, not for its social aspect. And by keeping my bookmarks in Delicious, I wasn't able to use the Firefox Awesomebar as much as I wanted to.
I found a tool that lets me import my Delicious bookmarks into firefox and am now using Foxmarks to sync between computers. I haven't looked back since.
The new del.icio.us redesign doesn't really impact upon either task so I'm happy insofar as they didn't break anything.
The way I personally bookmark:
1 - a site: Stumbleupon
2 - an article, more specifically: Diigo (with our without addition of a sticky)
3 - a content I want to retrieve and won't be certain to retrieve whenever I'll need it: Google notebook
4 - an article I don't care to keep but want to share with others: Facebook this, Friendfeed this, Twine this, Tumblr this, etc. depending on whom it may best/most concern (friends, colleagues, business partners, people you only know from have friended them via various platforms, ...)
5 - anything else (and sometimes redundant with a/m bookmarking facilities): del.icio.us. A word concerning the latter: Many a time I've found better quality infos (and faster too) using del.icio.us than merely googling for them.
Many ways of bookmarking because what is ... bookmark-able is also very diverse.
My 2 cts.
and it's something I wish I had spent more time on in my post -- but
now of course I don't have to :-)
The word 'bookmark' used to mean just one type of activity, but now it
can refer to dozens of different things, which we do for a host of
different reasons.
and browsing history turned on. Very handy.
Found via Dwight Silverman
Websites I visit often for content that changes daily, I remember the URL, or at worst I remember the keywords I use in Google to re-find that search. For stuff I have never looked up before, I Google. When I find something I want to keep, I cut and paste the entire page into Lotus Notes (or if it has linked files, I add them as attachments). This way I can categorize and tag the documents as I see fit, create links between them, and add my own addenda to the saved documents. Sometimes I don't remember how I categorized something, but since Notes has full-text indexing, I can find anything in a couple of seconds.
I have a 4gb Notes database with local copies on my laptops, and they are replicated with my server. That way if a site ever goes away (and they do, and even www.archive.org doesn't necessarily have a copy), I have my own copy of the data. I've been doing it this way for about 7 years now. People might think this whole setup costs a lot - not at all. One can buy a Notes server license for a one-off cost of circa. $150 per user, and I host the server on linode.com ($20/month) - but since my interent connection costs me $40 a month, and my time is a lot more valuable I think my setup cannot be bettered. Since a Notes database can be rendered as HTML using its internal webserver, I can also make sure I have access to all that information from anywhere with a browser.
Notes is a greatly under-rated tool.
Whenever I need to return a site, I go to delicious first, search my bookmarks and find what I was looking for instantly. Why wouldn't you bookmark?
Typing in the keywords into Google is great, but many times the page where I found that really interesting bit of information is buried within the 3rd or 4th page.
Lately I've been using a mix of Evernote (because of iPhone coolness) and Delcious. Anything private, or research material for a story I'm writing, etc. is saved to Evernote - clipping out the important parts. If I find an interesting link or page that I want to share with everyone I tag it in Delicious with a special tag that my blog reads in through an RSS feed.
Like you, I tag, tag, tag on del.ico.us. And I regularly use Search to find things I vaguely remember.
However, I frequently use del.icio.us to find specific posts that were meaningful to me - even though they didn't rate high on Google.
Del.icio.us let's us put the "I' in Search. Google is good for the "We."
That's the only reason i tend to use them to go anywhere, though i do occasionally search them for stuff i've forgotten
How can you remember things in this age, where content is exploding every second?
Bookmarking had been around for a long time, not only in digital form, but in books and other items, and it will stay around for a long time.
Now I can't wait for the new open source federated magnolia :)
When I am researching, I can collect articles and websites without having to thoroughly analyze them. I simply tag them appropriately then after I've collected my sources, I can easily return to them in Delicious to more closely examine them and write my conclusion.
I have asked the same questions. Of the 8785 bookmarks, many of the older ones are dead links (I wish Delicious would hide those. I don't want them removed because I can use them as a way to find the information in the wayback machine). Of the 8785 in all honesty, most of them I never return to give another look. But those few that I do, make the service and the habit well worth while to me.