OK, Ladies and Gentlemen, time for breaking news regarding delicious.com again. Today I recognized - performancing.com readers may not be surprised - that the delicious.com (classical abbreviation: d.i.u) Firefox plug-in accepts more text. The latest plug-in update from the 9th of August in my FF installation now gives me the power to describe a bookmark with up to 1,000 sign.
Accepting 1,000 signs for the description is a strategic important move esp. for bloggers. Below the line d.i.u now opens blogging capabilities to its users. And not even one blog because of the tags assigned to a collection of bookmarks it is possible now to feed a couple of blogs via nicely focused RSS feeds.
Read more on performancing.com:
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(Britta Gustafson Jul 31 2008 on the blog delicious.com) Yes, we plan to increase the notes field to 1000 characters. This may not be in place right away after launch, but it’s in the works.
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Use the power of RSS subscriptions!
Publish your i.e. 'best of' bookmarks via RSSOn pretty every serious CMS or blog system you can subscribe to RSS feeds to show up in your content. These RSS feeds can come from your own sources (think blog network) or from external sources. If you don't have the RSS subscription possibility then you can still install the powerful SimplePie or MagPie RSS aggregator solutions and add some PHP to your template code.
In our 'best of this blog' scenario we now only have to add a content block at the appropriate places and publish the my:best:pages RSS feed from del.icio.us. The latest list of the i.e. ten best pages will show up automatically.
You can decide to show the title only or add your bookmark notes.
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How to create a mini blog for your site
How to get those snippets? I find it very easy and useful to write mini blogs by using good and short notes for my del.icio.us bookmarks and/or good descriptions on Flickr.
If you use the (tag) feed output of those sites you can have a nice publishing form on your blog. If the produced content is directly in your code and not generated by some JavaScript widget you will gain additional search engine love too!
My workflow for a mini blog
Very often I do a research on a certain subject and during that research publish a lot of useful mini-blog content by bookmarking found pages on del.icio.us. Tag those bookmarks appropriately and you have a great enhancement for your blog.
Note: Clear text links because of the performancing.com spam filter. Just add the paragraph headlines behind performancing.com/.
What are possible negative impacts?
Is this a good or bad new feature at delicious.com?
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