
Storing information - Delicious
What is Delicious?
Delicious is what is known as a social bookmarking tool. It functions similarly to regular bookmarks, but there are three main differences.
- Delicious can be accessed from any computer with access to the internet.
- Delicious can be shared with other people but also allows you to keep chosen sites private.
- Delicious allows you to tag pages. Tagging is a key feature of 'Social bookmarking'. By assigning a keyword to web sites, documents etc, you are able to label pieces of information. You classify things in a way that makes sense to you and allows you to find things easily.
Other features/advantages of Delicious include:
- Team bookmarking - a group of people contribute to a collection of bookmarks.
- Network so that you can view what your contacts have on their lists and vice-versa.
- Enables the setting up of an RSS feed – so your feed reader tells you when someone has added a link of relevance to you.
TASK
Now create your own account in Delicious, add some of your favourite websites and tag them.
Click here to access Delicious.