Delicious ... the future is not (apparently) bright

It appears that Yahoo is not going to support Delicious. Read more here ("Leaked Slide Shows Yahoo Is Killing Delicious & Other Web Apps").

Delicious in Four Minutes

For today's lunch and learn session I created a screencast of the presentation I wanted to make and published it along with some notes on the Lunch and Learn Top 10 Tools and Tips page on the Learning Lab wiki. The video is actually around five minutes long and the audio gets ahead of the video towards the end, but as a rehersal mechanism and a way of creating a record for others who won't be at the session, it was useful exercise I think.
The video is also embedded on the Delicious page of the Top 10 Tools and Tips page along with some textual explanation and delicious bookmarks.

Research Tools and Techniques - The Bookmarks

I am currently working on a new Flowgram about Research Tools and Techiques aimed at Level 3 Research Disssertation students in Engineering. As part of this, I am creating a set of delicious bookmarks of the sites that I will be presenting. If you'd like to check out what I have so far please visit eg353project on delicious.com, or follow the tags in the tag cloud in this post. At the time of posting, I was about halfway though compiling the list – it may be complete when you read this – but any suggestions for additions would be welcome. I will publish the actual Flowgram next week.

If you feel that this list of research resources would be useful to your own dissertation students, then feel free to get them to join the eg353project network. You and any bookmarks of your own that you'd like to share (tag them for:eg353project) woould also be most welcome.

How I used delicious for this purpose, including how to get a tag cloud like the one shown here into Blackboard, will be the subject of one of the Top Ten Tools presentations at the November 4th Lunch and Learn.

Are you delicious?

We've set up a Learning Lab account on Delicious. Would it be a good idea to share bookmarks with other users on the Learning Lab?



If you are new to the social bookmarking, the video below gives a useful introduction.