Five Great Delicious Hacks, in Five Minutes, for Delicious's 5th Birthday
Popular social bookmarking service Delicious says today is its 5th birthday. While this author was disappointing several years ago that it was Yahoo and not the Library of Congress that acquired the company, Delicious remains one of the most powerful and useful services on the web.
To mark its big day, we offer below two videos. The first an introduction to the tool for readers still unfamiliar and the second a screencast demonstrating just how easy and useful it is to make 5 changes to your Delicious experience. Those changes took us under 5 minutes.
From collaboration to personal learning to expert source discovery - there are many, many things you can do with a good social bookmarking service. Delicious is the only such service with millions of users (the company said today that 5.3 million users have saved 180 million URLs to date) and that scale makes it what it is.
We also want to take this opportunity to thank the Delicious team and especially now post-Yahoo founder Joshua Schachter, for making this awesome service what it is. We really appreciate it.
First, an Introduction
Thanks to CommonCraft for another great video.
And Now for Something New
The following video demonstrated five of our favorite ways to use Firefox plug-in Greasemonkey to radically change the Delicious experience. This is really easy to do, as you'll see, and we've included all the links below the video. With just a handful of clicks you can integrate Delicious into sites like Google Reader and Digg, you can sort and view Delicious in brand new ways, and make a number of other changes.
Note that there's no audio in this video, we just went through the steps. We hope that's ok for readers but if you'd prefer it be narrated, let us know.
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Am I the only one who is not getting any audio with the second video?
No, Mike, there's no audio recorded - I'm sitting in a conference hall and muted it, just went through the steps. Is that too distracting? I may need to re-record and talk through steps too.
Thanks, Marshall. I think it's easy enough to get through without audio.
Cool, glad, thanks.
That was awesome. I'd really love to see walk-throughs of each of your personal RWW setups, by writer. Any maybe even sponsor a "tech makeover" for one of your readers, done via remote access: http://budurl.com/nxah
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November 6, 2008 1:03 PM
Narration would be helpful, por favor.
Cool tips. Definitely could have used sound, but still good stuff.
Thanks
I've learned many new tricks from your screencasts, and this one shows actually all those scripts that i have installed and have favorited in userscripts.org :)
One suggestion:
There's a better script for Google Reader, that integrates much smoothly with the Reader interface and no pop-up windows shown.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34043
But still, I'm more than amazed by your creative and productive use of delicious.
I really need the audio please!
You can celebrate with lots of delicious tools too.
Thanks. It is easy to get thry without the audio still.
That was good stuff. Even without the audio..thanks
This is a good move and I am happy to see that happen