10 Interesting People You Should Have In Your Delicious Network

Posted on 09 Dec 2008 by -

Delicious is the grandaddy of social bookmarking sites and it’s still going strong. If you’re not using the social aspect of the site then you’re missing out on a great way to find hidden gems of information.

I’ve done the hard work for you and discovered ten really interesting people that you should have in your del.icio.us network. Here they are, in no particular order:

Joshua Schachter - joshua

The creator of delicious itself (as well as many other useful sites), he’s left the company now but still using the service. With over 10,000 public bookmarks, he is a great guy to follow if you want to see a power user in action.

Jeremy Zawodny - jzawodn

Another ex-Yahoo employee, Jeremy is a MySql guru but bookmarks all kinds of tech and programming information. He uses delicious’s description field well, making useful notes against his 5,900 bookmarks.

Steve Rubel - steverubel

Public relations guru Steve is all over the web, but he still stores his bookmarks at delicious.com. Steve’s bookmarks have a heavy slant towards blogging and marketing but he definitely sorts the wheat from the chaff. A great addition to your network if you have a blog.

Joost Devalk - jdevalk

Joost is a WordPress coder and web designer so, as you’d imagine, his bookmarks cover a range to technical, internet-related subjects. He’s often first with links to newly released WordPress plugins but he saves lots of Javascript links too.

Chris Brogan - chrisbrogan

If there’s anyone in your network already, it’s probably social media guru Chris. He’s got loads of fans! His posts regularly hit the popular page of delicious too - this is a man that’s walking the talk.

Tamar Weinberg - tami

You probably know who Tamar Weinberg is by now - she’s truly “Internet Famous”. A social media marketer, blogger, online journalist and all-round techie, loads of interesting stuff bookmarked.

Jeff Smith - teknokool

Another Social Media guru (don’t there seem to be a lot of them on social media?). Jeff bookmarks much more technical information than most SMMs. He’s not afraid to roll up his sleaves and get into a bit of code, and his homepage is jeffisageek.net, which always makes me laugh.

Peter(?) Skomoroch - pskomoroch

I don’t know very much about pskomoroch (I’m not even sure that his first name is Peter) but I do know that he loves his data. If you need to train an AI or load a database full of test data then check out his dataset tag - there are riches there!

Louis Gray - louismg

Silicon Valley tech blogger extraordinaire Louis Gray currently threatens Robert Scoble’s position as King Of The Geeks and, unlike Scoble, he’s active on delicious. If you want the scoop on hot new startups, Louis’s bookmarks are a great place to look.

dadavidov

Finally, you know that delicious is really good for bookmarking MP3 files don’t you? Well, dadavidov has over 800 tracks bookmarked for you to enjoy.

So there we have it, ten del.icio.us power users for you to add to your network (don’t forget to add me too!)

Oh, and did you know that delicious is great for bookmarking colour palettes too? Really useful for designers.

Creative Commons licensed p-hoto by Laughing Squid.

I wish I could recommend me, but I can't!

Your comments are way too nice to me, especially considering my dellicious account is almost 100% narcissism. I used it all year to track "coverage" of the blog - essentially tagging those sites that link to me, and the topics that were covered. That's why almost 100% of the items are tagged "coverage", along with the topic, for instance, "delicious", "friendfeed", "twitter", "blogging", etc. If you did check out my bookmarks, you would see when people link to my stories, not so much the services my stories were covering. But sshhh... don't tell Scoble that he's threatened. He's quite competitive, you know.

Re: I wish I could recommend me, but I can't!

Thanks for your comment, Louis but don't be so self deprecating!

Your bookmarks are overwhelmingly tagged "coverage" but there's a huge variety and for those of us outside the Silicon Valley hype-machine, it's a useful resource.

Delicious bookmarks are much more personal than say, Digg or FriendFeed submissions. They act as a personal reference and therefore are less about impressing the A-list, which is why I find nosing around in other people's bookmarks so interesting.

pskomoroch

Glad you find the links helpful... Peter is my name :) I'm flattered to make the list with these folks. I currently work at Juice Analytics in DC where I do a combination of machine learning and general python hacking. My infrequently updated blog is called Data Wrangling and is intended to cover the same topics I bookmark. Before Juice, I attempted a finance startup, worked in search at AOL, Biodefense at MIT, and at various software startups - so my bookmarks are pretty eclectic.

One other person I'd recommend following on del.icious is Christian Langreiter

In the same way that using a calendar or making todo lists saves the mental overhead of keeping appointments in your head, I find that bookmarking information with del.icio.us frees up valuable brain RAM which I can use for other purposes. Unfortunately, bookmarking itself can become addictive, so I'm not sure how much time it saves me.

According to delicious these are my top ten tags:

python (950)
code (571)
for:chrisgemignani (454)
dataset (374)
machinelearning (338)
finance (324)
video (290)
search (268)
amazon (251)
ec2 (228)

I generated a neat tagcloud timeline on my del.icio.us account last May as part of "describe your interests" excercise at work.

Re: pskomoroch

Peter, thanks for stopping by and introducing yourself!

I'll be checking out your blog and I've already added Christian Langreiter to my delicious network.

I know what you mean about bookmarking becoming addictive. I have many pages saved just in case they come in useful one day but I am constantly surprised by just how often that does happen.