Delicious - Social Bookmarking

Slide 1: Social Bookmark Sites- Helpful for Daily Work By Sopan Shewale

Slide 2: What is Social Bookmarking? Social Bookmarking is the practice of  Saving bookmarks to a public web site  Tagging them with keywords

Slide 3: Example Sites

Slide 4: How these sites Work?  User can Bookmark Resource (Website URL) of his interest-while browsing website  User can Assign Tags to each Resource while saving  Sites help to show particular users  All Resources,  Resources according to a Tag/Tags  Users can see  how many people have used a tag  search for all resources with same tag/tags  Site helps to show  List of users have bookmarked the resource  List of tags are used by users to bookmark the resource

Slide 5: My Favorite Bookmark site My Favorite is Why?  Features  Good UI/API (Firefox Plugin)  Good Number of Users  RSS Support

Slide 6: I use del.icio.us for…  Saving Bookmarks  Access them from any computer anywhere in the world  Sharing Bookmarks with Friends/Colleagues  Tracking Interest Areas  Technology  Places  Colleagues, People who inspire you  Search Resources (Websites) on particular topic/area  Bookmarking Private URLs/Resources from Intranet/Client Working Location  Don’t waste brain to remember items like  Product Specification/Manuals  Bug List, Test Case details

Slide 7: Demo First Time Users-Registration is Required Your Username will appear in URL of your Use proper username/password, remember Bookmarks – e.g. my username is sopan_shewale that because you will be using that all the So the Bookmark URL is: time http://del.icio.us/sopan_shewale

Slide 8: Demo (Cont…) You need to install the Firefox Extension/Plugin To easily bookmark any URL.

Slide 9: Demo (cont…) Resource-To be Bookmarked Use Button to Save Bookmark

Slide 10: Demo (Cont…) Private Bookmark-check this box Notes about Bookmark Space Separated Tags

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Slide 12: Demo (Cont…) I love “popular” feature most. I avoid googling maximum time – for any new Term/word-I use del.icio.us E.g. I want to Learn more on Javascript – I visit URL http://del.icio.us/popular/javasctipt - i definitely get best Resources to Learn/know more on Javascript.

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Slide 17: Demo (Cont…) Firefox Plugin gives good UI to Browse/navigate your bookmarks/display details on URLS (You need to be logged into http://del.icio.us site)

Slide 18: Thank You