New: Quickly save links to Delicious from Yahoo! Messenger
March 24, 2010 on 8:34 am | In 10 version, 9.0 version, Features, Other services | 6 Comments
This week we launched a new integration with Delicious.com, Yahoo!’s handy bookmark storage and sharing service.
Now when you send or receive a link in an IM conversation, you can easily save it to your Delicious account and share it with friends. Here’s how it works…
Imagine that during an IM conversation, a friend sends you a link that you want to save. It could be a cool new website, important driving directions or a memorable video.
To save it, hover your mouse on the hyperlinked web address and look for a small “Bookmark” button nearby. Click it and a window will open up where you can enter and save details about the link to your Delicious account.
You can enter in notes about the link (“Where Sarah stayed in New Zealand”) as well as tags that will help other Delicious users find your link (new zealand, eco resort, four stars).
If you already have an account with Delicious, you may need to first visit Delicious.com to link it to your Yahoo! ID. But if you’re new to Delicious, you can create your account using your Yahoo! ID right in Yahoo! Messenger.
Delicious is not just a place to store your bookmarks, it’s also a place to see what’s hot and trending and find other Yahoo! users that are into your favorite websites. But you can use Delicious just as a private place to store your bookmarks. When saving a link, just click the “Mark as Private” box.
Yahoo! Messenger also supports the sharing of Delicious.com updates. So when you save a link to Delicious, your friends will see your latest update in Yahoo! Messenger, on their profile page, in Yahoo! Mail etc. It’s a great way to share what sites you’re into at the moment. You can always turn off Delicious updates on the Manage My Updates page on your Yahoo! profile.
The Yahoo! Messenger / Delicious.com feature is available to users on Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 and 10. So what are you waiting for? Go try it out and start sharing your favorite links with friends.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Sweet!
Comment by Mike — March 24, 2010 #
[...] New window will pop-up for Delicious account to save that weblink for future reference. You can also add description and tags about the link being saved. [via YM blog] [...]
Pingback by Save links on Yahoo Messenger chat to Delicious — March 24, 2010 #
This is highly annoying. Please tell me you’re planning to implement an option to disable this. Earlier today I was sent a link and it offered to bookmark it for me. I don’t use Delicious so I’d like to see it made optional thanks. Or at least get rid of that hover pop-up icon.
Comment by SGFC — March 25, 2010 #
mongol
Comment by tsetsegee_ali — April 3, 2010 #
i am a good boy
Comment by usman — April 8, 2010 #
good yahoo
Comment by salah — May 10, 2010 #