Wednesday 17 August 2011

Delicious

With thanks to Clare Sutton for image used under CC licence

I had never used Delicious before, so had no idea what to expect.  After playing about with it, my main conclusion is that it's ok.  It's not that there's really anything wrong with it, and I can see why it's useful, but I just don't feel that excited.  Maybe it's just because the website itself looks a bit dated, and I like things to be pretty!  I'm glad there are tools available that enable you to share bookmarks, as I can see that it is very useful for some individuals and companies to be able to do this, but I don't think I'll use it much.  Like Twinset & purls, I would be concerned about what would happen to all of my bookmarks if the site broke or was closed down or something.  If there is a website I really like, I'm very old fashioned and I write it down in my diary!


3 comments:

  1. Diigo looks prettier, but because delicious got there first, we have stuff on it so tend to promote it a bit more.
    Info from both tools is downloadable, so yes, if things cease you have got a backup.
    They are great tools to promote to researchers though, as finally they have a good way of organizing and accessing stuff, whether on campus, at home or on the hoof.

    Love your chocolate image! Yum Yum!

    Rownea 23 Things Team

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  2. Grr typo in above comment. I do know my name really...

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  3. I know what you mean about sites disappearing without trace. I spent a *long* time (you do, don't you?) inputting a load of carefully-chosed bookmarks into a social bookmarking service (the old "FURL" site) only for it to close down a few months later..

    Happily it's now reappeared as Diigo and my bookmarks with it. If you think del.icio.us is old-fashioned looking, check out the 90s-tastic Diigo site! :-)

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