Using delicious better
Delicious has infiltrated my consciousness. Over the past 24 hours I’ve had about 18 conversations about using delicious. And this morning I discovered I can use delicious better too!
Yesterday Cathy and I had a conversation with the boss man about delicious actually being people powered search in addition to being a good repository for your bookmarks. It was the first time I had thought of delicious as an actual search engine. In my opinion it’s actually better then any old search engine because it only indexes sites and links that people have thought enough of to bookmark. Imagine if the search results only gave you things people actually thought enough of to say this is important enough that I want to come back to this site repeatedly. Goodbye useless results, hello good focused results.
If that wasn’t enough N, our friend HK and I went for dinner last night and N and I were shocked to find that HK wasn’t using delicious. He was keeping multiple browsers open with multiple tabs and inviting his computer to crash on him. And when it inevitably did he would scan all the tabs he had open and put them in his long term memory. N and I spend most of the evening going through the benefits (all your bookmarks, indexed the way you want them, easy to find, independent of the computer and the browser, ability to see what things others found important) and the ease of using it (plug ins and extensions galore) and I think we may have convinced him enough to give it a try. I hope, if not, I will enjoy bugging him about being stuck on web browsing 1.0.
Then this morning I discovered that even I wasn’t using delicious well either! Cathy’s been working on a project and I discovered that I had multiple sites on my delicious that would be a real help to her work. I’ve been discussing ideas and coming up with concepts, but didn’t use my delicious tags to help her out! In the words of H. Simpson, DOH!
If you don’t use delicious you should. The world would be a better place… okay maybe that’s taking it to an extreme, at least you’re browsing and searching would be a better experience.
Full disclosure: Delcious is a Y! company, but I’ve been using it since 2004 or something crazy like that!
