Aug
2012
Why I like Delicious
With so many social sites around, for me, Delicious is one that really serves a purpose in my online world. If you haven’t stumbled upon Delicious yet (excuse the geeky pun), let me give you a few reasons as to why you should check it out.
It’s portable. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to compile your favourite bookmarks and store them in one easy to reach location. Rather than having your favourite sites bookmarked on your different computers or devices, Delicious keeps them in one handy location so you can access them from any computer or device, anywhere in the world. As a relief teacher, I have found it ideal for storing online resources and sites that I like to use in class. It’s available to me from any computer with an internet connection which saves me having to lug around my laptop.
It’s simple. Delicious has a really clean interface which makes it quite user friendly. You have probably seen the delicious icon on blogs and websites. Clicking it will allow you to add to your collection of bookmarks. You can also just click the ‘add link’ button or use the bookmarklet to add links to your collections.
It’s organised. If you bookmark as haphazardly as I do, you won’t have put much thought into making your bookmarks organised into folders within your web application. With Delicious, you can organise your bookmarks with tags or into stacks that will make them easy to find. For example, you could have a stack called Kid Friendly Recipes and within the stack you could tag the recipes according to their main ingredients.
Setting up a delicious account is very straight forward. Here’s some things you should do when you first sign up.
Once you have your account, import your favourite book marks from your browser.
Add the bookmarklet tool to your browser’s bookmark bar by simply dragging it up there. A bit like Pinterest, it will allow you to easily add likes to your bookmark collections. The bookmarkets are available for iPad and iPhone too.
Happy bookmarking 
Kaz
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Kylez...aka...Mrs.P
August 10, 2012 at 11:12 am (282 days ago)How did I not know about this??? I have seen the little icon but I never knew what it was for and I pride myself of being fairly web-literate. It’s such a good idea. I use google chrome on my laptops so that all my bookmarks are synced that way but I got an iPad for my birthday in June and it would be good to be able to access my bookmarks on there as well. Thank you so much for sharing! I am off to set u an account now!
Kaz
August 10, 2012 at 12:15 pm (282 days ago)Thanks Kylez. I think it’s under-rated
I’m glad you’ve found a use for it too 
Kaz
Grace
August 10, 2012 at 11:17 pm (281 days ago)Oh what a great idea! I never know what to do with all those fabulous posts I find on FYBF. Thanks for the tip!
Kaz
August 11, 2012 at 11:21 am (281 days ago)You’re welcome Grace. I like that it’s not too fussy an interface so it makes links easy to find. Glad you liked the tips.
kelley @ Miss Information
August 12, 2012 at 7:31 am (280 days ago)This is great to know thanks for sharing it at Miss Information!
Kaz
August 12, 2012 at 8:22 am (280 days ago)Thanks Kelley. Please feel free to link up your parties with us and add them to the linky page
Have a great Sunday!
Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye
August 13, 2012 at 10:06 pm (278 days ago)Good to know! Thanks – and thanks for linking up for Flash Blog Friday
Ang
August 14, 2012 at 12:07 pm (278 days ago)Have started using this now
Took me a bit to figure out, but I think I’ve got it, and I just downloaded the Iphone app too. Yay me!
Kaz
August 14, 2012 at 12:33 pm (278 days ago)Yay Ang. We’ll have to subscribe to each others links