Del.icio.us Twitter Together A Nice Concept

Del.icio.us Twitter Together A Nice Concept

Interestingly Del.icio.us a social bookmarking website has put an enhancement. It has added an edge with allowing a feature to let users share their bookmarks to Twitter.Of course there are more stuff with this enhancement. Like they have consolidated network tagging which used to available in Del.icio.us before as well as has added email service.

Del.icio.us Twitter Together is a Nice Concept. Most of the time, it is the case that you think you have discovered something useful and wish you could directly send this link to your friends-colleagues-social network. But you end of going to some URL shrinking site and then to twitter. In these extra steps, you loose momentum and waste couple of clicks with extra tabs/pages. :D) So this integration of Delicious book marks with Twitter remove that extra efforts, time and clicks. So you are now free to share your findings with the world.










This enhancement adds two things to your Save the book mark page. First it has added "Send" text box below tags textbox plus it has added two tabs at the bottom. First one is tags and second tab is "Send" with nice "new" tooltip image.

The trick is to choose Twitter on Send tab and fill in your twitter user id and password first time. Then as usual Twitter account will need you to allow access to Del.icio.us APIs.

After you allow Del.icio.us to access your twitter user id, in the "Send" text box, you will fill @twitter. Boom...there you go..your bookmark now will be tweeted along with Del.icio.us book mark safe. :D

But hey you do not want to share some private bookmarks then you can check it as "
Mark as Private" and it will not be sent to twitter.

Also I have noticed on Del.icio.us that below the bookmark - link, contributors and short information para - there is simpler information about {{number of}} related Tweets been displayed. Hum...may be Del.icio.us could allow me to use my bit.ly or su.pr or TinyURL while letting me share my book marks socially on twitter as well as tracking how many clicks I have for that link. May be it can be part of our wish list. What you think... :D

Enjoy...

New Features of Google Maps

Wow...it is awesome...that is what I have said when I have noticed all those new cool features which are been added in Google Maps. Maybe I have noticed it long after it been added, I kind of guessing that I may not have missed actual launch. But anyway, I will celebrate now. :)

In one breath, I can say they have added wonderful things like

• Street View

This is so nice. Click on "Street" button, and it will say to Zoom in to street level ...

and next click on a small person icon will show you a photo of the actual street.



• Photos and Wikipedia

Next feature is inclusion of options menu to choose to see photos and/or Wikipedia entries for the street. It is a check box option which enables and disables thumbnails from the street map.


• Options to choose directions for Car, Walking and public transit

Right below "Get Directions" and source-destination address text boxes, there is one drop down box. This allows you to choose if you like to see directions for Cars or walking or public transit.


• My Maps: Map Editor

Hum, looks Google want to make it easy to make your mark on the maps. My Maps will allow you to create maps, to draw shape and add test to it, to draw lines,to add a placemark and to set/edit maps.

Then you can either collaborate or import those maps with easy single click.

• Collaborate your creations



• Import Map

Importing map is another cool idea which is been added. Import KML option will add map data from a KML, KMZ, or GeoRSS file to newly created map. It takes a little while depending on the speed of internet connection.




• Know about Traffic

The traffic button either allow to see live traffic or to check what would be happening in near future.


• Regular Options to see Regular Map or Satellite view or Terrain structure

There are many more things to tour around and to discover and to hack...

Here is the complete picture of Google Map :





so enjoy...and hey please do not forget to let me know which feature you like most....