Like many… I’ve been using del.icio.us for several years and so have
some of my closest colleagues. A few of us at PLANET
ARGON have been using the for:username tag to
send each other links, which has been a great productivity hack as we
don’t need to copy URLs and paste them into emails, IMs, or IRC channel
windows anymore. One of the things that del.icio.us doesn’t have a
totally perfect implementation is sending to a group. There are people
in your network, but to my knowledge, there isn’t a way to send everyone
in a network the same link without selecting everyone individually. This
was adding more time to the process of saving a link for ourselves and
our fellow team members. So, we came up with a clever hack… a new
delicious user account.
Over the past four months, our team has bookmarked almost four hundred links on topics ranging from Rails plugins, Interaction Design, Business processes, cool new web applications, to any variety of things that we find relevant to our team.
So, all of the links are being sent to a fake user. How do we see the links for that user without having to logout of our current user and into the planetargon account? Well, what we’ve done is take the delicious RSS feed and pipe it through feedburner and given everyone the URL that feedburner provides. Now, we’re all able to subscribe to the same feed and check out links when each of us has time for it.
…and this is what I get to see show up in my RSS reader. :-)
How is your team managing bookmarks? :-)
