Entries tagged with bookmarks - Channel 10

Are You Running The Latest Version of Delicious?

sarahintampa — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:00 GMT

According to a post on the Delicious blog, the company has been working on their Internet Explorer add-in quite a bit since its recent launch. The plugin works on IE versions 6 through 8 beta 2, although they point out that the plugin won’t be official on IE8 until the browser is out of beta itself. The blog post mentioned that many people submitted feedback about the plugin and they have been listening and responding. Last week, Delicious released a a major update that fixed a number of the reported bugs. If you have already installed the IE add-on, you may want to make sure that it’s up-to-date. If you haven’t yet installed it, you can do so from here, assuming you have a Delicious account. With the plugin installed, you can save and tag links, search delicious, and even sync your IE favorites to the Delicious service. As far as bookmarking services go, Delicious is one of the best and the site’s makeover only makes them that much better.

If you are using Delicious now, you can join the conversation on the forum where you can share your own thoughts and suggestions.

Mesh Your Bookmarks!

sarahintampa — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:11:00 GMT

One of the most useful things you can do with Live Mesh, beyond just syncing files and folders, is syncing your bookmarks. This is as simple as right-clicking on your Favorites folder and adding it to the Mesh. (Doug has more detailed instructions on this here). When you do this on all your machines, you’ll end up with a merged directory of all your Favorites so you can manage your bookmarks from in one location, no matter how many machines you have. How handy is that? You can even access them from any other computer that has internet access just by logging into your Live Desktop. And don’t forget that Live Mesh lets you invite others to share a folder, so, if you wanted to share your bookmarks, for example, with a team at work so everyone could contribute, you could that, too.

Social Bookmarking for the Tech Community

sarahintampa — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:14:00 GMT

To help members of the technical community bookmark useful pages and share them with others, both the MSDN and the TechNet teams recently released a preview of a new social bookmarking tool designed just for their sites. With this tool, you can browse, filter, tag, and manage your bookmarks in a way that’s very much like using the social sharing site del.icio.us or any other online bookmarking service. You can click to see what the most popular bookmarks have been over the past 7 days and you can filter the list of links to display the bookmarks that came from forums versus those that are just from regular web pages.

To get started using the social bookmarking service, you can visit any of these sites:

MSDN for Developers http://msdnbookmarks.com
TechNet for IT Professionals http://technetbookmarks.com
Expression for Designers http://expressionbookmarks.com

After signing into the service, you can use a browser bookmarklet like the one from TechNet available here to begin tagging and saving your links.

There’s also a crazy Silverlight-powered app called TICKER that offers a way to visualize the bookmarks that others are tagging via the social bookmarking system. The links float by on the screen, color-coded as to whether they originated from TechNet or MSDN. If you hover your mouse over the bookmark, it will pause and allow you to save it for yourself.