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Semi-Private Tagging in del.icio.us

November 2, 2005 By Will Richardson

(via Jon Udell) Now that I’m happily bookmarking at del.icio.us again (even though I hate the fact that I’m limited in the length of the comment I can leave) it’s great to know that I can use it to create private lists for other users as well. All you have to do is add a tag that says for:willrich, replacing, obviously, the willrich in the example with whatever username I wanted to add. So if I wanted to save something privately for Alan, I’d tag it for:cogdog. And the use of this with students is obvious. We could now send individually relevant bookmarks to individual students for their use only.

And, of course, now I can save all sorts of stuff just for myself too, like links to Cubs blogs that I’m sure no one else would want to see…

UPDATE: While this seems to store a bookmark in someone else’s private folder, it also adds it to your own public folder. Not sure if it stays in the other person’s if you subsequently delete it from your own…
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