del.icio.us Update
February 5, 2008 by Kate Olson
In my previous post on del.icio.us, I expressed my dismay that it was really difficult to bookmark anything if you weren’t able to download the del.icio.us buttons to your school computer. Well, readers came to my rescue and provided tips that should help me and other teachers who are unable to download at school. Patrick shared his school’s solution to this problem as well.
Miren says -
“Good news, you don’t need to go on emailing links home anymore. Even before the great downloadable buttons were avaliable, del.icio.us published bookmarklets just as the ones you mentioned for Diigo. You can find them here: http://del.icio.us/help/buttons or here: http://del.icio.us/help/savebuttons . This last one offers a JavaScript based bookmarklet opening a new window just the same as the downloadable button does.
Hope you find this helpful. And tell your friend! del.icio.us is not just the best bookmarking system I know, is also the most social (which adds quite a lot of value to me).”
James says -
“Yeah, what Miren said should work… http://del.icio.us/help/buttons just have to drag the bookmark to your favorites bar, be logged into delicious and it should work without any downloading. I like delicious the most out of the services I have tried that are similar. It is the cleanest to use, and easy to use, especially for sharing sets of links with others. I use it on our web page to display curriculum-related links, without having to update the actual page, just an rss feed embedded. The links that appear are associated with certain tags in my delicious account. http://www.camdenstation.com/science_links.htm”
Patrick says:
“After years of “discussions” with IT, we now include handy/essential apps like Audacity (w/lame library) and the del.icou.us button on all our machines. The problem is that kids still have to sign in-out of delicious, and with a PC you have to locate LAME on every PC you log into to (what a pain). Factor in Google Notebook, Zotero, etc and you have a real headache. This lack of “customization” was one of the driving points for our decision to go 1:1; kids (and teachers) need to be able to make the computer they use a PERSONAL learning tool.”
Thanks to all for the wonderful solutions 
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Hello Kate, i find a similar issue when i use other people’s computers, so i take a copy of Portable Firefox on my USB stick. (available via portableapps dot com)
This means i can have all my favourite extensions loaded wherever i go (including the official yahoo delicious).
.. and there’s no danger of finding out i’ve been logged into delicious on a public computer for the past four months (which happened to a colleague of mine - fortunately nobody had taken advantage).
There are a few apps that will run portably, so i feel much more at home on strange computers than ever before.
(ideally everyone in a school envt. would have their own personal login, don’t you reckon? With a ‘roaming profile’.)
all the best, michael