Sending Links to Individuals via del.icio.us Tags

I use del.icio.us to send links to my fiancé. When I’m browsing and I find something I want him to see I just save it to my del.icio.us account with the tag tojim (to Jim), and he subscribes to that tag with a Firefox live bookmark. It’s easier for me than sending an email, and if he wants to visit any of them again it’s easier for him to find. It’s similar to what the folks at Columbia Teacher’s College do with their collective tag for their department, and what we at UIC are doing with a collective del.icio.us account, and what A VC did with MP3s. I suppose if Jim knew other people that use social bookmarks he could get links from multiple people to him this way. Perhaps splicing individual user’s tojim tags into a feed would be preferable to subscribing to the tag tojim itself though, due to spam or just link overload potential. I wonder, do other people do this? ~~You can send me links at toericka.~~ Update: del.icio.us implemented this feature as for:erickaakcire. Jim does not have a del.icio.us account now (he is supposed to be the geek CS guy not me) so I’ll stick with tojim until he sees the light.

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Published:: 06.12.05

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Nick 06.12.05 / 7pm

This is exactly what I with for several of my friends, using a “show:foo” format. It’s so easy to include someone else in your browsing without having a web-to-email context shift. For me it’s freed up email for more important messages.

Jon Garfunkel 06.13.05 / 7pm

In April I came up with the idea of the Tipster Network, which proposed doing just this as a way to collectively submit tips to people with large inboxes– or better yet, to formal publications looking for tips. Oddly enough, none of the a-list bloggers I passed this to didn’t embrace this at all. Perhaps their private tips are a unique value to them. (I didn’t hear from Schachter either, but would very much like to).

I also dropped that link it in your “toericka” inbox. Looks like I’m first. One of the issues I didn’t address was the scaleability of, if I can invent an expression better than “cc”, tipping people. It might be beneficial for you to be able to remove the toericka tag once you’ve read it– and that would let me know that you’ve at least had a look at it.

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