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In this well written blog post: How to Use to Delicious: The King of Social Bookmarking the author Kristi Hines explores some new ways to use Delicious, articulated in 8 points. When I read the 8 points presented and their contents, I realized that on all of them Licorize has something more to offer. So here I go in detail for each of them:

#1: Organizing Your Resources: Well, here the problem with a flat bookmarking tool like Delicious is always the same: you loose a major part of the semantic context of your bookmarking. Bookmarks collections are an entry point to create new ideas, teams, projects: this is what Licorize empowers. For more details see Beyond Delicious.

#2: Action Plans: to support action plans in Delicious you have to resort to tag hacks, like creating a tag named “actionfacebookpage“. It is a fix for the fact that you lack behavior on bookmarks – some bookmarks are actually to-do items, and like should have a state, disappear when done etc. . And a collection of such bookmarks on a theme should be distributable between a group – and more, This is exactly what Licorize provides.

#3: Company Sharing: having multiple Delicious accounts is again a hack – we tried that too in the past. It is very uncomfortable, e.g. you will likely forget where you are logged and bookmark in the wrong account. And also a lot of information likely should be shared across the accounts, but it won’t be. Instead with Licorize just use a unique account and different teams, and there you can exchange messages, curate the collected information, and more.

#4: Backlink Recording, #5: Social Networking Profiles, #6: Social Mentions, #7: Writing Showcase. Of course Licorize generates flat lists of backlinks pointing to the original pages, but actually much more can be done. These four points concern how comfortable it is to keep track of online locations by bookmarking – but more tools for classification and behavior help preserve the original information. But where Licorize shows really more power w.r.t. Delicious is when you want to publish / share such contents.

Because if you want to share a collection as a workplace, a project, Licorize provides a set of classification and management tools that are simply completely absent from Delicious. And if you want to share bookmarks as a public collection, Licorize lets you publish them not just as a list,  but as an online “booklets”, see several examples here. Licorize presents public and rich contents online a bit like Flipboard presents Tweets as a “social magazine” instead of a flat list.

#8: Don’t Lose Your Bookmarks! Licorize not only lets you export your bookmarks as an HTML file, also exports in Excel your classified contents.

Concluding, what is done in Delicious by hand maintained tags whose coherence relies on the good memory of the user and the perfect “tag harmony” in the group of taggers, is done in a regulated and automated context in Licorize. Give it a try!