Make Use Of is looking for YOUR Del.icio.us contributions!

I don’t know why we didn’t think of this sooner but we have just started a Make Use Of account on Del.icio.us and we are looking for YOUR contributions!

The purpose of the account is to encourage reader participation in submitting website links to Make Use Of. One part of Make Use Of is the Make Use Of directory – which is a huge enterprise in its own right. But to keep it going, it needs a continual stream of new sites added to it.

So have you started a new web service or web tool which you would like inserted into the MUO directory? Maybe you found a website and thought “wow, I’d love to see Make Use Of cover this one!”. Well using the Del.icio.us account, you can now tag it and send it along to us.

Being obsessive internet surfers, we would probably eventually find the sites you submit ourselves but our thinking is that if you want to submit a particular site to us then it will get into the directory faster. This would be good if you are developing say an open-source project and you would like your site to get some quicker search engine attention.

To submit a site to us, you first need your own Del.icio.us account (which is free and very easy to set up). Then go to the Make Use Of account and at the top, you’ll see a link that asks if you want to add us to your network. Click on that.

Then when you have a link which you want to submit to us, you will see in the Del.icio.us “submit link” box a tag which says “for:makeuseof”. Click on that and as long as the link is tagged with “for:makeuseof”, it will end up in our Del.icio.us inbox where it will be looked at by one of the Make Use Of staff.

*** UPDATE *** Thanks to Stobe, I have run the previously private Del.icio.us feed through Yahoo Pipes and now I can make the feed publicly accessible to anyone who wants to see it and subscribe to it.

Just go here and click on your feed reader of choice. The feed should then load in your feed reader as a new subscription and you will see every new site that comes into us from a MUO reader or MUO writer.

Tagged: announcements • delicious

Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill is the managing editor of MakeUseOf.com

http://biggrainsofsalt.blogspot.com Becky P

I couldn’t get the link to Makeusof’s delicious account to work. Am I the only one?

ani625

Makeuseof del.icious

http://lethann.livejournal.com Lethann

The URL they have linked to is actually for their personal account (if they are logged in as that account).

To arrive at the page with the “add to your network” link that they have posted above, go to: http://del.icio.us/makeuseof (note the missing “for” from the link)
ani625

The link for your account that you’ve posted in incorrect.
The correct link is http://del.icio.us/makeuseof
Thx
http://nettiherutus.blogspot.com/ stobe

I’ve tried to encourage my readers to do the same (with little luck). As Becky noted the for make use of del.icio.us webpage is only visible for the author.

I’ve cornered this minor setback by feeding the RSS from that page to yahoo.pipes. This way my readers can also enjoy the links. I also added a feed-widget to my sidebar to encourage the linking habbit.

http://www.betterthantherapy.net Mark O’Neill

Stobe : You are a lifesaver. I ran the feed through Yahoo Pipes and now I have a publicly accessible feed!

I will update the blog post shortly with the link. Thanks!

http://www.cavdar.net Abdullah Cetin CAVDAR

Interesting idea. I have added “makeuseof” to my delicious network (accavdar).
Happy sharing to all.
http://www.betterthantherapy.net Mark O’Neill

Becky : The actual account is at http://del.icio.us/makeuseof but any links that people contribute will go to http://del.icio.us/for/makeuseof (the inbox) . The last link though is unfortunately password-protected to anyone outside Make Use Of (not our doing – that’s del.icio.us’s doing).