Aug 7 2009
Sharing Made Easier: Email and Tweet Your Bookmarks
Earlier this week Delicious released a series of significant improvements and each day this week we spent some time exploring each of these improvements. This post concludes our series of deep dives.
A part of the fun of discovering something new on the Web is sharing it with friends. We’ve made it easier to share your bookmarks on Delicious when you use our Firefox extension or bookmarklets. Instead of copying and pasting an URL, you can now email or tweet your bookmark directly from Delicious.
How it Works
Previously, sharing a bookmark with another Delicious user required using a particular syntax or copying and pasting the URL into an email or tweet. Now, you can share it directly when you save or edit the bookmark. To share a bookmark, simply add recipients in the new Send field when you save or edit the bookmark. Click the Send field and you will see the Send tab with social network options.
If you don’t want to share a bookmark when you save it, you can simply click Save (after entering a few tags) or hit the Return/Enter key on the Delicious Firefox add-on.
Sending a Bookmark
You can add any of the following types of recipients in the Send field:
Email address. Enter any valid email address. We’ve included an auto-complete feature for email addresses you’ve previously entered to make sending emails easier.
Delicious user name Enter any valid user name. We’ve include an auto-complete feature for Delicious users in your network.
Twitter. Type Twitter to share the bookmark on your Twitter feed. Associate a Twitter account by logging into Twitter under the Twitter panel in the Send tab.
For Twitter Users
If you use Twitter and want to send bookmarks to your Twitter feed, associate a Twitter account (only a single Twitter account can be associated at one time) by logging into Twitter under the Twitter panel. You have the option to send all your saved bookmarks to Twitter by selecting the “Tweet all bookmarks unless private” checkbox when you add the Twitter account. If you’ve selected this option, your Twitter account will appear by default in the Send field.
Add a Short Message
By short, we mean 116 characters or less. For messages sent to Twitter, Delicious will generate a shortened URL (which looks like this: icio.us/1293uf). See notes below about the shortened URL.
How Recipients Receive Your Shared Bookmarks
When you share a bookmark, the recipients will see the following:
Delicious User Recipients: When you share a bookmark with another Delicious user, the bookmark will continue to appear in the user’s Delicious Inbox with any message you might have added when you shared the bookmark.
Email Recipients: When you email a bookmark to share with a friend, your friend will receive a short email with the share URL in its full and original form, any message you might have added, and a link to your bookmarks.
Twitter: Your message and a shortened URL of the site you bookmarked will appear in your Twitter feed as you see below.
Some Notes about Delicious Shortened URLs
When you tweet a bookmark with Delicious, we shorten the URL to leave more space for your message. We’ve dusted off our old icio.us domain to make links shorter for this purpose. When a user clicks on an icio.us shortened URL in a tweet, they are directed to the bookmarked site without any framing. Delicious forwards search engines to the site you bookmarked by using the recommended “301 Permanently Moved” redirection code. Any search engines that find your tweeted URLs will properly credit the shared site.
We hope this helps you to share the things you discover on the Web more easily with friends, colleagues, and family.
Rocco Caputo | delicious.com/braino
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delicious adds Twitter an&hellip | Aug 7 2009 at 11:26 am
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Delicious Shows Off New S&hellip | Aug 7 2009 at 12:40 pm
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Jorge Sanz (xurxosanz) 's&hellip | Aug 7 2009 at 3:41 pm
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Why Hire Me > Blog &ra&hellip | Aug 8 2009 at 2:59 am
[…] micro-blogging (Twitter) and Social Bookmarketing (Digg, Delicious). I was happy to discover that Delicious has added Twitter integration directly into the bookmarking […]
Andy Church | Aug 8 2009 at 3:10 am
Very cool integration! I do hope people continue to bookmark stories and vote with their mouse. What better way to see how popular a story is, then seeing how many times its been Bookmarked. Twitter leaves me scratching my head as it relates to sourcing meaningful news I should read first.
http://blog.whyhire.me/2009/08/social-bookmarking-goes-mainstream/
Jeffrey T. Guterman | Aug 8 2009 at 5:24 am
Excellent! Here is a tweet I posted: http://twitter.com/guterman/status/3192314823
gabo | Aug 8 2009 at 11:05 am
Back when it was released the send to twitter feature failed if the twitter password contained symbols (non alphanumeric characters), was this issue resolved?
Delicious Shows Off New S&hellip | Aug 8 2009 at 6:39 pm
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tuxracer69 | Aug 8 2009 at 11:52 pm
is there a way to disable this new feature?
I will never use it and I find it confusing, from the usability point of view:
several times I added my tags in the “send” field.
How to remove this HTML field?
I want to go back to the old HTML form…
Thanks
Alex
Delicious Shows Off New S&hellip | Aug 10 2009 at 9:59 am
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Jeremy | Aug 10 2009 at 7:44 pm
My favourite feature in this is the 301 redirect. Absolutely no other URL shortening service that I’ve come across supports it — they all do 302 redirects, which are, to put it bluntly, braindead for the application.
links for 2009-08-10 | Ip&hellip | Aug 11 2009 at 5:08 am
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Lizzie | Aug 12 2009 at 9:19 am
I agree with Alex. It would be great to have a way to turn this off.
Thanks.
Draco | Aug 12 2009 at 11:55 am
I can’t believe you are making me scroll through my 20 person network to tag them all. PLEASE ALLOW A SHOW ALL VIEW FOR MY SEND CONTACTS. I BEG YOU.
schuessler | Aug 12 2009 at 1:32 pm
That is a great way for communication. Sharing made easy!
Lunes | Aug 13 2009 at 4:22 am
The “send” feature is quite nice but I miss my network bundles in the list. Will you add this again?
Social Media as a Dynamic&hellip | Aug 13 2009 at 5:22 am
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La selección de IA: 8 &hellip | Aug 14 2009 at 2:03 am
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Zane Selvans | Aug 14 2009 at 3:48 am
I would also like to be able to disable this feature. I would much prefer the larger textarea (and less confusion) of the prior version. I bookmark far more things than I want to tweet or otherwise broadcast to those who have not specifically indicated interest in my bookmarks.
Reading Around on August &hellip | Aug 14 2009 at 1:35 pm
[…] delicious blog » Sharing Made Easier: Email and Tweet Your Bookmarks – “If you use Twitter and want to send bookmarks to your Twitter feed, associate a Twitter account (only a single Twitter account can be associated at one time) by logging into Twitter under the Twitter panel. You have the option to send all your saved bookmarks to Twitter by selecting the “Tweet all bookmarks unless private” checkbox when you add the Twitter account. If you’ve selected this option, your Twitter account will appear by default in the Send field.” […]
Muniz | Aug 16 2009 at 9:47 am
Fantastic! I love how well works with twitter and email.
Are you guys thinking to translate your interface? Will it be any soon?
Sorry my bad english.
Thank you.
New Features Make Sharein&hellip | Aug 18 2009 at 3:02 pm
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David Roussel | Aug 19 2009 at 2:05 am
I just ‘discovered’ this new feature when making a bookmark on my iPhone. I was unable to scroll the list of users I can send to. Can you make this work on the iPhone by using a normal scrol bar, or just showing all the users in the page without any scrolling.
The old way of just being able to click on for:myfriend worked nicely. The new way needs some refinement.
Amy | Aug 20 2009 at 11:46 am
Much like Alex, Lizzie, and Zane, I would love to know how to revert my Delicious to the smaller box. I really miss it. This is the first complaint I’ve ever had about a Delicious feature, so I’ve surprised myself.
soupenvy | Aug 21 2009 at 2:27 pm
Where do I view the list of people with whom I shared a link with?
In the old days, I was able to view a URL and I would see all of my “for:xxx” tags listed. Now, there’s no record, at least that I can find.
In addition, my tags of “for:xxx” used to be publicly accessible (for example http://delicious.com/soupenvy/for:huphtur was a viewable URL) now, those tags are only viewable by me. Am I missing something?
heymacarthur | Aug 22 2009 at 3:51 pm
this is good feature but showing “from API” below the twitter post is boring.
“from delicious” or something would be good!
Jonathan Schofield | Aug 23 2009 at 1:12 am
Great addition. But I’m experiencing a few wobbles with the service as posted on the forum: http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=3081&page=1#Item_1
Andy Tedd | Sep 1 2009 at 3:51 am
Great - thanks for this.
dezzadk | Sep 1 2009 at 8:14 am
Stupidiest addition to delicious ever !
Keep Twitters at Twitter and don’t mix them together. If someone wants to post something to twitter, let them use another tab in their browser.
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henningninneh | Sep 5 2009 at 3:33 am
I second soupenvy. Where did the for: tags go? I am no longer able to view the list of people with whom I shared a link. This is bad.
I am a delicious-user ever since 2004 and I preferred delicious to other similar services, because you did things simple but solid. The last round of additions is therefore not for me.
No bloatware. Please!
Best
H
links for 2009-09-07 &laq&hellip | Sep 7 2009 at 12:06 am
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Dale | Sep 18 2009 at 5:07 am
How do we view the click-through stats on our shortened url links?
Suzanne | Sep 26 2009 at 2:57 pm
great feature! love it!
Alex Burnnêt | Sep 28 2009 at 3:03 am
O segredo é ser correto em cada coisa que fizer,NÉ… .
soupenvy | Oct 8 2009 at 3:11 pm
My question remains unanswered:
Where do I view the list of people with whom I shared a link with?
In the old days, I was able to view a URL and I would see all of my “for:xxx” tags listed. Now, there’s no record, at least that I can find.
(I do believe I was mistaken in the second part though. “for:” tags were never available to the public. Correct me if I’m wrong)
Britta Gustafson | Oct 11 2009 at 6:10 pm
soupenvy: We recently added back a way to view who you’ve sent a bookmark to — see the bottom of this post. When looking at your bookmarks, you should see the person’s username in light blue as an additional “tag” on the relevant bookmark.
Martin | Oct 22 2009 at 10:14 am
interesting opportunity to tweet bookmarks. but how do i change the twitter account that is associated to my delicious-account?
Britta Gustafson | Oct 26 2009 at 4:42 pm
Martin: If you’ve authorized your Twitter account via OAuth, you can remove your credentials from Delicious here: https://twitter.com/account/connections — and then you can log in with a different Twitter account and re-authenticate from your Delicious account.
geo | Nov 3 2009 at 9:31 pm
Um, am I missing something here or does this just post a blink link to twitter, without the “title”. That’s what happens when I use it, and it’s not very helpful to just throw links into my twitterfeed w no context or entry text….
mens dress shirts | Nov 6 2009 at 1:52 am
well people just need time to get used to new features, thats no problem, i only share links with MSN, can anyone say it is a problem?
Blank Label | Nov 7 2009 at 11:32 pm
love how there’s such a shallow learning curve for these new features. quick, dirty (in a good way) and easy is always good
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