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Watch this video from [|CommonCraft] for an introduction to [|Social Bookmarking]

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How to del.icio.us wiki Another great source how to wiki [|From: John Pederson] Del.icio.us is a free service that lets you bookmark websites directly to the web, allowing your bookmarks to travel with you between computers, independent of the computer and/or browser you are currently using.

Setting Up del.icio.us
1. Start by registering an free account with the service. https://secure.del.icio.us/register. Yahoo backs del.icio.us, your information is safe. 2. Del.icio.us will ask you to install some toolbar icons. I highly recommend following these instructions. They make things much nicer. 3. You are now ready to roll!

Adding a Website to del.icio.us
The buttons you installed during the registration process are the main way to add new items to del.icio.us. When you're visiting a page that you'd like to save to del.icio.us, click the button at the top of your browser labeled TAG. This will pop up a screen that asks you to enter a bit of information regarding the site you are tagging. There are three basics here. Click Save when finished. You rock. Do this to a bunch of your favorite websites.
 * Name** - It's automatically filled in based on the website you are visiting. Change it if you'd like.
 * Notes** - Annotate your website. Make a note about why you are bookmarking it.
 * Tags** - Drive the librarians nuts. Categorize your website. You have free reign to do what you want. Whatever makes sense to you.

Viewing Your Bookmarks
You see button. Yeah button in the toolbar of your browser? Click it. At the top are your Tags. At the bottom are you bookmarks. Handy, eh?

Playing Back at del.icio.us Headquarters
Remember how these are all web-based bookmarks? Open your browser and visit http://del.icio.us/your_username_here. 1. The web address of your bookmarks is simply http://del.icio.us/your_username_here. Of course, no _ and insert your username. 2. See that blank square looking for information? Type a Tag name there and you narrow your search of your bookmarks to that tag. 3. Hey, here are your bookmarks. You can edit/delete them right from here if you choose. 4. If it's pink, others have bookmarked it too! See how popular it is and who else bookmarked it. 5. Once you start getting crazy with del.icio.us, your tags show up in "cloud" form.

**That covers the basics of How To Use del.icio.us. Turn away if...**
1. You are overwhelmed. 2. This is new to you. 3. You have had enough for now. Once you have mastered the basics, come back for a bit of advanced play with del.icio.us.

So, you feeling curious? Here is where things get a bit more complicated. Del.icio.us is a "social bookmarking" service. Sharing is caring and caring is sharing. By default, you are sharing each of the sites that you bookmark and tag with the rest of the world. That's cool.

1. You can look at others' bookmarks by entering their del.icio.us username in the URL. Let's say you want to see David Jakes' bookmarks. His username is djakes. His bookmarks are therefore at http://del.icio.us/djakes. Hey, that's easy!

2. If we are interested in David Jakes' bookmarks, we are likely going to be interested in the people whom he is watching. Click "view djakes's network". Whoo hooo!!! We are starting to get collaborative here.

1. We are now looking at the Network of David Jakes. http://del.icio.us/network/djakes. 2. Here's a list of the bookmarks of everybody inside of David Jakes's network. 3. These are the people that David Jakes is watching. 4. These are the people that are watching David Jakes.

Building Out Your Network
If you click on a del.icio.us username of somebody that isn't in your network, you will get a prompt to add them. In this case, I could click "add csessums" to your network and begin viewing the bookmark of Christopher Sessums.

You Have an Aggregator?
Let's say you have an rss aggregator such as Google Reader, Bloglines, NetNewsWire, etc. You can subscribe to just about anything within del.icio.us and have the bookmarks delivered straight to your aggregator. At the bottom of every page is the "RSS feed for this page" button. Think of the possibilities.