They are Delious(ly) LinkedIn « adediwura

You should wondering what the title implies; well it basically talks about the two search engines – Delicious and LinkedIn. Except of course you are an ICT inclined person, you may not be so familiar with the two sites. Naturally, ordinary Internet users would think the only search engine available to them is Google.com and sometimes ask.com. It would interest you to note that that there are thousands of search engines. However the aim of theis write up is to deal with only two namely delicios.com and linkedin.com.

Let's kick off with delicious.com - at least to give an impression of wetting your appetite.  Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows you to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. Basically, it is more of a specialised search engine that serves a common purpose of bookmarking your web sites of interest. It becomes very important when you have forgotten web addresses.

Delicious is a lso generuous in the sense that you can not only copy bookmarks, you can also share it with others. Even if you don't have a personal computer, or you happen to be using more than one computer, delicious synchronise your bookmarks in one place so that they can be accessible from any computer.

How to sign up

Signing up for for delicious is easy and absolutely free – trust me if it is not free, I would not have registered (don't mind me). just go to delicious.com, enter your details as instructed and verify your account via your yahoomail.

Now how to save a bookmark?

It is a little different than what you're used to. Depending on which buttons you've added to your browser, you can click the "Tag" or "Bookmark this on Delicious" button to save a new bookmark. Regardless of the buttons you've chosen, you'll see the following fields.

URL:

The URL field is simply the address of the page you're bookmarking. This should be filled out for you. Only change this if you know what you're doing.

Title:

If you're using one of our bookmarking tools, this will be prefilled with the title of the page you're saving. Feel free to edit this in any way that makes sense to you.

Notes:

Here's where you may want to write some additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page.

Tags:

Enter one or more tags separated by spaces here. They are optional, but we suggest using them, as they make your bookmarks much easier to organize and navigate. For more on tags, read our tags section.

Send:

People and places you want to share your Bookmark with. This could be the social network Twitter, an email address, or a Delicious user

Message:

A message that will appear with your Tweet, Email, or Delicious message. Limited to 116 characters.