On Thursday, Delicious celebrated its 5th birthday. Delicious is one of my favorite web applications and a major part of how I discover, manage, and organize web-based information both for my work and at home. My personal experience with Delicious is relatively new given its age – I only started using it over the last few months, however it has rapidly become a permanent fixture on my desktop. I love how you can leverage the site to discover and organize all types of information and cannot imagine going back to a typical “browser-based” system to manage my bookmarks.
With that in mind, I wanted to do my part to spread the Delicious gospel, but instead of writing yet another post about how to use Delicious (there are quite a few on the web already…), I thought a good way to do it would be to pass along a recent post about Delicious that I really enjoyed.
Five Great Delicious Hacks, in Five Minutes, for Delicious’s 5th Birthday, by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, should have appeal to both the Delicious newbie as well as the power user. It provides a good intro video on the service as well as a second video demonstrating five “power user” techniques to improve the Delicious experience using GreaseMonkey for Firefox.
The intro video was created last year by Common Craft and provides a really nice introduction to social bookmarking and Delicious in particular. I have embedded it below:
In the upcoming weeks, I plan to write up some tips and other posts about my experiences with Delicious, so look for those soon. Happy Birthday Delicious!