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My del.icio.us usage is fairly common, I think: everything that could be remotely interesting or useful in the future, I bookmark with del.icio.us - from videogaming news to Java development articles to free mp3s.

I signed up early, trying to show support for an app that sounded a bit wacky because I'd run into Schachter in IRC. To my surprise, I started to use it a lot. I love be able to refind many items from different streams of interest. I also subscribe to the tag stream "funny" and use my Delicious inbox to a stream of all new taggings by mamamusings. Liz is great and our tastes overlap a lot--but I found I didn't use that feature much, so I never bothered to subscribe to anybody else's bookmarks.

Hey David. Here's a simple deli.cio.us thing I've done.

First, I set up an account, deli.cio.us/smallbusiness.

Then, when I see a small business-related story, I tag it with one of six tags: management, economy, marketing, policy, technology and finance.

If someone wants to subscribe to an RSS feed of any of those tags, they can.

Or, if they want a "Google News" type display version of the news headlines, I have aggregated the RSS feeds and display them at this URL: news.smallbusiness.com

(Credit: Matt McAlister (http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog) did a similar deli.cio.us hack a while back that inspired me.)

hey david,

i'm prett hardcore with my use of del.icio.us. feel free to email me for my phone number if you'd like to chat.

-sean

i provide custom tailored business intelligence mailers to my clientele amongst other things, and use del.icio.us, both for personal as well as professional use. feel free to contact me if you think that this may be relevant to your research.

also, http://del.icio.us/admitid for the newly admitted students to sort by tag instead of wading through an unwieldy university site.

I have about 1k items, http://del.icio.us/tbishop61, save stuff I see on the net with the FF extension slogger which is configured to simultaneously post to delicious, browse using my inbox, which I have displayed on http://www.thebishop.net/news/news_weblogs.html, along with delicious/popular.

Nothing very purposeful, aside from participating in Marnie Webb's Nptech project and doing some data analysis for her.

If this would be useful to you, happy to help.

My del.icio.us use is fairly common too - I've also integrated a bunch of best practices from other users. Check out: http://del.icio.us/jamesmelzer/del.icio.us+case_studies

Feel free to email me.

I have been using del.icio.us to gather information in the context of a Community of Practice workshop I;ve been doing with Etienne Wenger and others - so have a specific spin I'm happy to share