Getting Delicious

Social Networking sites have allowed us to connect with people around the world based on our likes and dislikes, our pictures, vids, music, and so on. The cool thing is that the above things can be accessed from any computer anywhere in the world. We find out about people and things we could never have found out about on our own.

When we're surfing the web, we bookmark pages of interest to us, which are stored on our web browser. But when we change computers, we don't have access to those bookmarks. This is the lame way of doing things. Cloud computing and Web 2.0 has given us a website where we can save all our bookmarks and access them from any computer.

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where you save your bookmarks online. When you're doing your research, you can tag the site in your delicious account and access it from any computer, anywhere in the world.

Even better: you can find bookmarks tagged by other people who have similar interests, as part of your social bookmarking network. It's like having millions of users and sites that match your interests, literally a few clicks away.

Your task this week is to:

1. Set up a delicious account. You can access it using your Google, Yahoo, or Facebook account (use your Google account preferably).

2. Create a profile and start connecting with people you socialize with in your class - you should connect with at least 5 other people you hang out with.

3. You must link with my delicious account here: http://www.delicious.com/mrdafos

4. Start adding bookmarks to your delicious account! Make sure to tag the bookmarks as you go along. Bookmark sites that are relevant to your subjects and assignments!

Watch this video that summarizes my lesson very quickly and then get bookmarking!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc&feature=related