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[prof beard]

Feel free to repost this on any other vaping forum

Delicious.com lets you manage you own bookmarks, share bookmarks with the rest of the world, and search everyone else’s bookmarks for ones you are interested in.


I have set up for myself a “core” set of bookmark tags which should enable us all to find bookmarks from around the world related to vaping. (NOTE these are not exhaustive – from my research I’ve worked out this set will throw up vaping/e-cig stuff without extraneous “noise” from unrelated sites - you can add others to your own version of this if you want but you will probably get noise).

The set is called “vaping” and is made up of the following tags:

e-cigarette e-cigs e-juice e-liquid E-NI ecigarette ecigs ejuice eliquid personal-vaporiser personal-vaporizer vapers vaping

How to use delicious:

Register at delicious.com You can use delicious by installing an add-on on your browser OR by just visiting the delicious site and logging in.

(You need to play with it to get the basics but it is easy).

Using the “vaping” tag bundle:

You need to do two sets of things:

First go to the “tags” menu and having clicked that click on “manage tag bundles”


Click “create new bundle” – call the new bundle “vaping” and then paste the list of tags above into the tag box. Save your bundle.


Secondly, click the “bookmarks” menu and then click “subscriptions”

Over on right of screen click “add subscriptions”. One by one, enter each of the tags in my list and save them.

Nearly there: (phew)

Over on the right hand side of the page click “subscription options” followed by “subscription bundles” and “create new bundle”. Call the bundle “vaping”, click all the tags listed and save it.


To use the bundle to find everyone’s vaping bookmarks:

Click “Bookmarks” in the main menu, followed by “Subscriptions".


Over at the right it will list your subscription bundle “vaping” – click on that word and all bookmarks on delicious worldwide that include any of the tags will be listed.

[BadSeed]

Nice one Prof. I haven't used that before. Got my tags set up. :)

[Jackie]

I'll do the same. Will sticky this thread for future reference too. :)

[S3AB1SCU1T]

Errrr it's like reading french to me what does it do and what is it for?
there are far too many things around that make life complicated.
how would this make my life less complex?

[Jackie]

In essence, Delicious is a social bookmarking service. If you don't use bookmarks or share links on a regular basis then it's probably of little use to you. If you do though, it's fantastic. :)

[prof beard]

Basically, if you set up the subscription to that group of tags, delicious shows you all the vaping web sites that everyone else around the world (that uses delicious) though worthy of bookmarking

[S3AB1SCU1T]

thanks guys. sometimes i need the simple aproach to things.

[intaview]

prof beard said:

Basically, if you set up the subscription to that group of tags, delicious shows you all the vaping web sites that everyone else around the world (that uses delicious) though worthy of bookmarking

Out of curiosity, how many people does it take for a bookmark to register in the delicious vaping group, or any group? If it was just one, wouldn't every person who set up a site, blog, whatever, just tag their own site and then every site, even if it was a one-product blog, would be listed?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking it. I just wondered if there was a minimum "vote" rating before they were included as bookmarks. Or does it show the number of people that have "voted" for that site and then you can see which ones are most likely worth visiting?

I've heard of the bookmarking sites (hard not to really) but I've never used them before. They sound as if they could be very useful.

[prof beard]

delicious doesn't work on popularity, it's just about sharing tags with people you know.

It WILL show you the generally popular sites (about anything), or, if you search using a tag, how many people have bookmarked a given tag. The advantage of subscriptions is that you can choose the tags you are interested in and get it to show you new sites people have bookmarked using the same tags...

[intaview]

Thanks. I'm going to give it a go and then I'll understand it a better. The way I imagined it was delicious would have a list of bookmarks on a web page for anyone to choose from. That's why I posted my original question.

I've just re-read your OP and saw things I didn't see the first time. I'm going to go and have a look at their site now.

[Craigo]

Useful and time saving, thanks Prof!