Don’t Add Your Gmail Inbox to Public Bookmarks. 07 Jun 2010 If you have added your Gmail inbox to your browser bookmarks, make sure that the bookmarks are not getting synched with a public service like Delicious or Google Bookmarks. couch mode print story If you have added the web address (URL) of your Gmail inbox to your browser bookmarks, make sure that the bookmarks are not getting synched with a public service like Delicious or Google Bookmarks. That’s because when you bookmark your Inbox or any other folder in Gmail, your email address is added to the title of the bookmark.
When this bookmark becomes public, your email address automatically gets exposed to spam bots. This may sound like an obvious thing but just search for “mail.google.com” or “Gmail Inbox” on Delicous, Xmarks or even Google Bookmarks and you’ll tons of “working” email addresses in the title of the bookmarks. The same is also true when you are bookmarking individual emails. TwitchBoard. Facette: Organize Your Delicious Bookmarks - ReadWriteWeb. Delicious, Yahoo's online bookmarking tool, only forces a very loose organization upon its users.
While this straightforward method is great for most users, it can often make finding bookmarks harder in the long run, especially when you manage a large collection of bookmarks on the service. Facette, a new MIT project, is trying a different approach. With Facette, you can create a more organized data set on Delicious, as it forces you to be more specific about how you want to categorize each new bookmark. Among other things, Facette puts a stronger emphasis on the type of object you are bookmarking (article, blog post, tool, etc.), the kind of information it contains (tips, photos, videos, audio), and what you are planning to use it for. After installing a small Firefox plugin, Facette adds two icons to your status bar - one for bookmarking new pages and one for accessing your bookmarks. Delicious Toolbox: 80+ Updated Tools and Resources. Delicious, a powerful social bookmarking tool, has been around for what seems like forever, and while it may not get as much press as Digg, it still has an extremely active and loyal group of users.
There are a number of tools out there that cater to these users, some of which still even stick by the old del.icio.us moniker. Here are over 80 tools for everything from your mobile device to your blog, and more, that can help you view your bookmarks in new and unique ways, backup your bookmarks in a secure location, take your bookmarks with you on the go, blog about your most recent saves, and then some. Have a favorite Delicious tool or resource that we missed? Tell us more about it in the comments. Blog Widgets & Tools This collection of blog tools and widgets will give you greater control over placing Delicious tools in blog sidebars.
Del.icio.us custom size - A widget for the Delicious tag cloud that allows you to play around with the dimensions more than the official one does. Oishii! How to Organize Your Web With Delicious - The Essential Toolbox. [NO LONGER WORKS] Delicious was the first site that introduced me to the social bookmarking phenomenon. There have been many clones since then but social bookmarking has always been Delicious to me.
The concept is simple and genius: you can bookmark any page for further reference, quickly find it when you need it using the combination of tags you associated the story with; moreover, you can access your bookmarks from any computer because they are stored online and share your favorite web pages with anyone. It sounds so simple and yet so convenient that it is hard to imagine someone not using it! Of course, like any service, it needs some tricks so that anyone can customize it to match his or her specific needs and personality.
Today I am going to share the set of tools that help me make the most of Delicious bookmarks. Organize and access your bookmarks 1. 2. 3. 4. Analyze your Delicious bookmarks 5. 6. Search Delicious bookmarks 7. Popacular - popular delicious bookmarks.