del.icio.us cookies
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007So I’m sure everyone knows about this cool social bookmarking tool. Even though most of the people I know don’t actually use it socially. What I mean by that is that we use it to keep track of our own bookmarks across multiple machines and/or locations, but we don’t take advantage of what it can do for sharing those bookmarks. So here are a couple ways I’ve found to do exactly that.
- Links for You: This is where you’ll find links that people in your network, or who have YOU in their network, have tagged for you. When you use the add bookmark dialog, add your tags as normal, but also select from the list of your network contacts and select those that might also like the link.
Then when you view your del.icio.us page you’ll see the “links For You (15)” notice… - To really use this tool to its fullest you need the del.icio.us Firefox plugin. There’s a plugin for I.E. but it’s not as functional. I suggest using the bundles view if you’ve gone through the OCD nightmare of trying to categorize your hundreds of bookmarks.
- If you’re like us, you have more than one profile that you manage on any one social media platform. That’s a headache no matter how you slice it. You can get around some of that by using Firefox AND I.E. for different accounts, but that gets annoying (especially if you use Firefox, I.E., Opera AND Netscape). Cookie Swap is the solution. Use it with del.icio.us or any other web platform to manage multiple profiles/personalities/clients. Once installed you just right click on the icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window and select the next profile.
Then you can transfer links from profile to profile using the “For:”tag and minimize the amount of times you have to swap cookies. - Let me take a minute to pipe dream a bit about these two things and a couple of features that I would use A LOT if they existed. 1) Export bookmarks by bundle for del.icio.us. It would be cool to be able to email an unordered list to a friend based on a bundle or a tag. 2) site specific cookie swapping. I want a plugin that will ask me which cookie set I want to use every time a login page loads. Perhaps not that many people manage as many profiles as I do, but I suspect there are plenty. 3) Support for more profiles from Cookieswap.
- Last: Postalicious lets you post your bookmarks with a short message to your wordpress blog. It’s a good way to post actual content to your blog quickly and easily.
We’re always searching for, and tinkering with new ways to communicate, interact and stay informed here. del.icio.us and cookie swap are pretty indispensable once you get used to them. Please add us to your network and send along some links!
Next up on my bookmarking radar: www.diigo.com. Bookmarking, auto importing/exporting, slideshows, notes and annotations…
-Mike
