Got mad web engineer skills? Comfortable with HTML5, CSS3 & PHP? Built any mobile apps? Want to work at Yahoo! and lead the global social bookmarking battle? You might be the perfect fit for the Delicious engineering team.
As you know, Delicious continues to lead the way in Social Bookmarking. And with some exciting new features and opportunities coming soon, we need a new teammate to join the crew and help create new experiences for our users. We’re a small team that still iterates like a start-up – we just happen to do it within a big company. This gives the Delicious team a tight family vibe but access and support from a leading global internet company.
If this sounds like something you want to be a part of, jump on careers.yahoo.com, search for ‘foosball’ (don’t ask) and look for Req# 32524.
Psst! If that sounds like too much effort, feel free to click here instead… ;)
nosivadnomis · nosivadnomis
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We know a number of you are website owners and interested in Web Analytics. We’re hoping that those of you which are interested in web analytics are aware of the excellent Yahoo! Web Analytics service and it’s blog. Today the Yahoo! Web Analytics blog posted an article about their usage of the ‘ywa_support_resources‘ tag.
Check out the ‘Social Bookmarking with Delicious and YWA‘ article to see what they’re doing.
Social Bookmarking with Delicious and YWA
nosivadnomis · nosivadnomis
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If you’re a mom like me, you constantly worry about developing healthy eating habits for your kids. How do you get the little munchkins to eat their vegetables? (And I am not talking about french fries.) Luckily my 9-month-old (who now has two small teeth) simply adores one healthy green: okra or, as many countries refer to it, bamieh, lady fingers, or gumbo. This flowering plant is high in fiber, calcium, and iron. It’s fuzzy on the outside and mucilaginous on the inside!
My introduction to okra was when I visited the exotic city of Ahvaz, Iran. It was in a stew called “koresh bamieh.” I next saw it in North Carolina, where I was told by a K&W Cafeterias hostess:“you gotta try those, honey; everyone around here loves them things. You ain’t a true Southerner if you don’t love Okra.”
It actually took me a year or two to realize that okra and bamieh were the same vegetable!
As you know, there are many people who use Delicious to bookmark recipes – it’s a foodies’ paradise. My fond memories associated with koresh bamieh inspired me to dedicate a tag on Delicious to okra. It’s really easy to do:
- Visit a page you like and click on the Tag button.
- In the tag description enter your tag. (In this case, I used “okra.”)
- Go to your tag and look for the blue action box on the right. Click on ”create tag description link.”
- Enter a title (“Everything you ever wanted to know about Okra”).
- Enter a description (“Find all of my favorite delicious okra recipes here”).
- Click “Save,” and you’ve now defined what other people will see when they visit your tag page.
And here is my own koresh bamieh recipe, just published on our Yahoo! Answers blog, using eggplant instead of the traditional lamb. Check it out and let me know whether you like it.
Bon appétit or, as we say in Iran, “noosh-e jaan.”
laylatarwe · Layla
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Hi, everyone:
As I mentioned in my previous posts, I wanted to feature some of your great user stories on our blog. Congratulations to Gemma Holm, our first Delicious guest blogger. We are always open to your suggestions for topics for future blog posts, so don’t be shy.
A teacher’s Delicious inspiration
By Gemma Holm
Like many of my friends, I use Yahoo! Groups to participate in current conversations about pop culture, healthy relationships, and recipes. As a teacher, I also take pride in posting kind responses to anguished questions posted by teenagers on Yahoo! Answers. Recently, after reading about Delicious on the Yahoo! Groups blog, I decided to check it out. Wow! Parents, teachers, tutors, and librarians take note: Delicious can be a wonderful tool for student learning.
At the start of class, I usually distribute a list of favorite websites to my students, but it is always incomplete. This year, I’m planning to use Delicious with students in my classes to collaboratively select, bookmark, tag, and describe websites that seem especially helpful and relevant.
I’d like my class to explore ways to use a group Delicious account to support student success. In our class discussions, students can critically consider which websites we should add, and which to leave out. Considering what to include provides an authentic opportunity to talk about website credibility and sources. Additionally, it makes more of our class research accessible to students and their families outside of class.
My students already work in groups. This year, these teams will research relevant websites, and nominate them for our class Delicious page. As students conduct research and sift through options, they will be engaged in a learning process. Our class discussions provide opportunity for collaboration and debate. I look forward to the first suggestion that we include Wikipedia.com, so that we can have an in-depth examination of benefits and possible pitfalls of crowdsourced material for research and writing. I eagerly await the day that a group nominates a website of its own making.
Tagging our Delicious websites will help us to form a common vocabulary that can enhance discussions, research, and student writing. Nominating and considering tags can provide a great lead-in to discussing electronic research methods. I aim to help my students gain a new appreciation for tags, keywords, and subject searches.
There are also a few different ways we can use tag descriptions. One would be to include a brief summary of the homework assignment that capitalizes on a group links. Another would be to create enhanced descriptions of our links so that classes from another state or country would understand the focus and limits of our research. Next year, I hope to collaborate with another instructor and class in another state or another country that is studying a similar topic, and to share our Delicious links.
This year, when my students sit down to write, meet with a tutor, or study for a test, they will be able to visit our Delicious page and access our online class resources . Parents, tutors, and other helpers will have one more tool to support student learning. I can’t wait for school to start.
Guest blogger Gemma Holm teaches writing and study skills in Pittsburgh, PA.
laylatarwe · Layla
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Hi, everyone:
We admit it has been a while since our last Delicious product release, and here’s why:
- We’ve been doing some housework and cleared up over 200 issues reported by you and our engineers.
- We’ve spent the last few months making sure that if we suffer a major technical outage, we can rely on a fully operational copy of the site so you’re impacted for as little time as possible.
- There were a few UI changes we needed to make before a larger release launches in a couple of months.
Most of these changes might not be obvious, but you’re bound to notice better-looking buttons, which are the first in a series of improvements we’ll be making to the interface.
We’ve also removed the SHARE link for private bookmarks. Though you can change the privacy setting by clicking EDIT or the Lock icon to the left of the link.
Another change to note is that Tags on the site will be basic rectangles instead of chevrons. We hope this will remove some points of confusion, reduce the code slightly, and limit how much the display fractures, when you increase the browser text size.
As you can see, we’ve been active listeners and tried to incorporate your continuous feedback in making the above changes.
Enjoy!
laylatarwe · Layla
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Greetings, Delicious community:
My name is Layla, and I am the new community manager for Delicious, Groups, and Answers. I came to Yahoo! after taking a one-year maternity leave. I had been enjoying motherhood so much that I figured I would go back to work only if a great opportunity knocked, and then I got offered my absolute dream job. I have been using Answers since its launch in 2005 and I belong to several mom-related Yahoo! Groups, so when I saw the position for a lead community manager for Answers, Groups, and Delicious, my first reaction was ‘Yahooooooooooo’, and my second reaction was, ‘Delicious’? Who actually uses social bookmarking sites now that we can just tweet everything and share links with our friends on Facebook?” The answer I got from those surrounding me was: “Total geeks, college professors, and librarians.”
Fortunately, the Delicious team gave me a chance, despite my lack of experience as a geek or librarian. I started by looking at the forums and was lost in the midst of technical conversations, embarrassed by my inability to get the gist of it all. I visited the blog, only to be faced with more technical knowledge, and spent time on the help pages trying to figure out how to use this product to my fullest advantage.
Embracing three properties all at once was quite overwhelming. I was bombarded with internal sites I needed to bookmark and articles I needed to read. The last thing I had time for was learning how to do social bookmarking on Delicious while I was struggling to figure out how to best organize my own bookmarks on my screen — until a delicious moment hit me.
From the conversations I have seen on the forums, I think most of you know how to save a bookmark on Delicious, how to add the Delicious Add-on to Firefox or Internet Explorer, how to create tags for your bookmarks, etc. (Drop me a line if you don’t and I’ll walk you through it.) But I wonder how many of you actually know that there’s a beautiful way of organizing your bookmarks on your Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbars?
Once you have organized your bookmarks under the correct tags — for instance, if you created a “toread” tag and tagged the articles you want to read under, you can then:
- Click the Delicious button on the left
- Click Manage favorite tags
- Add the tag you like (for instance, “To Read”).
- Click OK
And voilà, your organized favorite tags will appear at the top of your toolbar.
You can continue to build new tags on your toolbar as you see fit, and also delete them anytime you don’t want to clutter your toolbar. I know this discovery has definitely saved me a lot of time at work— it is so much easier to find my needed bookmarks, and I wanted to be sure you benefited from this feature, too.
Would you like to share your Delicious moments with us? Send them to me and I’ll feature them in our next blog.
laylatarwe · Layla
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We’ve got our fingers in a number of pies right now, so the update we’ve just rolled out is mostly limited to some minor UI fixes while we start work on larger projects. The majority of these minor changes you probably won’t notice, however the changes to the BrowserBar you probably will. We’ve added a simple ‘SAVE’ button and supplied a drop down menu so that you can skip forward, backward or avoid the pages you know employ frame busting (WSJ, Twitter etc).
We’ve also added a keyboard shortcut so that you can progress through the bookmarks by using the right and left cursor keys. Perfect for those moments when pushing a mouse pointer around the screen is just toooo much effort.
Enjoy!
nosivadnomis · nosivadnomis
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