Posts tagged as “features”
Sometimes you know exactly what you’re looking for, while other times you might be in the mood for a surprise. This week, del.icio.us Randomizer Buttons were born to satisfy your need for novelty: Each time you hit the Randomizer Button, del.icio.us will bounce you to a random new page recently bookmarked by other del.icio.us users.
By visiting the help page devoted to del.icio.us Randomizer Buttons, you can grab a bookmarklet of your own to start adding some spice to your surfing.
August 8th, 2006
It’s refreshing when a simple idea translates easily into a practical feature. That’s just what happened with our new “active users” section on pages like /tag/politics and /popular/osx: now when you’re viewing a tag of interest, you can easily see frequent users of that tag who you might want to check out for more juicy, hand-picked links. If you find someone interesting, just add them to your network to keep up. Is this the beginning of something great? Let us know what you think.
August 7th, 2006
Many of you have been using your network to keep up with the interesting things that other people are bookmarking. Many of you are also starting to notice that you have “fans” – people who like your bookmarks and have added you to their networks. This feature of del.icio.us is getting popular enough now that we wanted to make it easier for you to grow your network and to tell the world how connected you are.
With that in mind, today we rolled-out our Network Badge! This new badge allows you to tell people about your network from your own Web site or blog. These details can include your user name on del.icio.us with a link to your bookmarks, how many people you have in your network, how many fans you have, as well as a link others can use to easily add you to their own del.icio.us networks.
Like Tagrolls and Linkrolls, Network Badges are JavaScript includes that you can copy and paste into your site’s HTML or your blog’s templates. By visiting its help page, you can customize the content and appearance of your Network Badge and get HTML code for insertion into your own pages.
So get networking!
August 3rd, 2006
Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature. To try it out, go to “settings” and click on “private saving” to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page.
This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to discourage that, we will be watching how this feature impacts the community and will also be experimenting a bit with the UI over the next few weeks.
So if you’re one of those antisocial types who doesn’t like to share their toys, this one’s for you. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
March 19th, 2006
- We’ve finally re-done our help section. An RSS feed for new features and changes will be coming soon.
- Include your tags in your blog via our new tagroll.
- Navigating is now easier with editable breadcrumbs.
- Hardcore Internet Explorer fans can rock-out style with an Active Channel feed. Gopher support is under consideration.
November 13th, 2005
As some of you already know, del.icio.us quietly released a newer, much spiffier search engine about two weeks ago. I can assure you that it would have been a much louder release had hurricane Wilma not cut my services shortly afterwards. I’m back now, and I’m happy—damned proud, actually—to announce our fully armed and operational search engine. Go try it!
By the way, here are some details about the new query syntax. It’s dead easy: Enter some words, and you’ll get back links that contain all of them: bacon lettuce tomato finds BLTs.
The search engine goes through tags, page titles, extended descriptions… the works. Tags can be searched exclusively, though. Prefix tags with “tag:” like so: tag:bacon.
The purists out there might want to search for BLTs specifically. They’re welcome to look for “bacon lettuce and tomato” as a phrase. Note the quotes.
Maybe you can take or leave bacon. Maybe you also like tofu sandwiches. You’re the kind of person who’ll love the OR operator and parentheses: (bacon OR tofu) lettuce tomato gets you BLTs or the tofu, lettuce and tomato variety.
Vegans can use the - (minus) prefix to exclude meat products: lettuce tomato -bacon -ham gets you salads.
The search engine also supports AND, which is almost never needed because it’s the default. There’s also NOT to negate a term. Most of the time the minus prefix will work. We even support XOR, which is a bit funky: (bacon XOR ham) cheese gets you bacon and cheese, or ham and cheese, but not bacon, ham and cheese.
But you probably almost never need to worry about all that. The simple keyword searches are a lot of fun by themselves.
November 7th, 2005
I love music. But I hate when three applications fight over which gets to play it when I click on the links at http://del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:mp3 . So I decided to do something about it: you will now notice a 
to the left of every mp3 link. Go ahead, click on it and enjoy the peaceful beauty when the music just plays.
October 28th, 2005
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