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Your del.icio.us inbox

Submitted by Merlin on October 19, 2004 - 1:24pm.

Del.icio.us has rightfully become a bit of a phenomenon with the web kids. It’s such a great, elegant solution for sharing bookmarks and posting links. For another thing, it’s the totally simple way I run the links section over in the right rail.

I really love my inbox and its subscription functionality, but I’m sort of surprised that more folks don’t seem to use it at all. (I know this because I like to stalk my friends’ inboxes for sources of new stuff.)

Click “subscribe” at the top of most pages to add any user or any tag to your inbox—you can even use the very cool operators function to combine tags (try “funny+blogs” or “cool+design”). Anytime a new post arrives that meets your criteria, it appears in your inbox. Great way to learn about a new topic or stay up to date on an old favorite. Also a swell way to keep up with what you’re friends are enjoying.

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And yet another variation for...

Submitted by Steven Jarvis (not verified) on October 20, 2004 - 9:36am.

And yet another variation for including del.icio.us links as a linkblog or whatever: I use just del.icio.us’s HTML api and a quick-and-dirty php script that writes the results to an include file on my server which is then styled with a little CSS. I use the actual del.icio.us page for that tag as the “archive” for the sideblog, much like Merlin does here. If you’ve got access to php and can use includes of any sort on your blog, you can use it, too. I’ve got it (more or less) documented at: sjarvis.com.