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11 October 2006

Del.icio.us File Sharing

"Del.icio.us, is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was founded by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. It is now part of Yahoo!", Wikipedia.
So if you like some page you add the URL to del.icio.us, and tag it with some relevant tags in order to be able to see it later on, and you can also send the link to any del.icio.us user, and users can surf your bookmarks as well.

"RapidShare, is a free service, where any user can upload files of up to 100 MB without registration. The user is then supplied with a unique URL, which locates the file and enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file", Wikipedia.
There are many other similar sites, and you can see a comparison of them here.

Now people can upload Movies, Softwares, etc to RapidShare et al (One-click hosting), and then add the file link to del.icio.us and tag it with a special tag. The most important thins, is that users must agree on special tags in order to tell it is a Shared File, and not an ordinary link.

Let's sy you want to upload a french movie called "Taxi", to RapidShare. So, you can tag the file with the follwing:
link:file-video , type:wmv , lang:fr , title:taxi

An mp3 can have the following tags:
link:file-music , type:mp3 , artist:alanis-morissette title:ironic

Update, 12 October 06.
I found this on del.icio.us' blog:
http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/06/casting_the_net.html

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7 comments:

  1. Enemy of the Republic10/12/2006 03:36:00 AM

    I never knew that, even though I have joined all those groups. I just did it blindly and stupidly, like I do most things.

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  2. Nesrina10/12/2006 11:23:00 PM

    I registered yesterday and I am still discovering it. couldn't add the url to tag it afterwards .. .tried but failed or may be I still have to acquaint myself with it.
    It wasn't easy for me, I thought it might be like Google reader or Technorati that I am still examining.

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  3. Zeinobia10/13/2006 12:55:00 AM

    I got a del.ici.ous accoount , but sharing files and so I prefer to use box.net
    1 GB and it is forever no deletation for files after specific period like rapid.de

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  4. Zeinobia10/13/2006 12:55:00 AM

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  5. Anonymous10/15/2006 02:24:00 PM

    Tariq eih el haslak? No more blogging?

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  6. Unknown10/15/2006 02:53:00 PM

    A little bored and has nothing to blog :)

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  7. Naomi10/18/2006 05:33:00 AM

    Do you really see value in using del.ici.ous? I've heard that Digg is better. What do you think? I'm trying to decide which is the better to use.

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