Earlier this week Delicious released a series of significant improvements and each day this week we spent some time exploring each of these improvements. This post concludes our series of deep dives.
A part of the fun of discovering something new on the Web is sharing it with friends. We’ve made it easier to share your bookmarks on Delicious when you use our Firefox extension or bookmarklets. Instead of copying and pasting an URL, you can now email or tweet your bookmark directly from Delicious.

How it Works
Previously, sharing a bookmark with another Delicious user required using a particular syntax or copying and pasting the URL into an email or tweet. Now, you can share it directly when you save or edit the bookmark. To share a bookmark, simply add recipients in the new Send field when you save or edit the bookmark. Click the Send field and you will see the Send tab with social network options.

If you don’t want to share a bookmark when you save it, you can simply click Save (after entering a few tags) or hit the Return/Enter key on the Delicious Firefox add-on.

Sending a Bookmark
You can add any of the following types of recipients in the Send field:

Email address. Enter any valid email address. We’ve included an auto-complete feature for email addresses you’ve previously entered to make sending emails easier.

Delicious user name Enter any valid user name. We’ve include an auto-complete feature for Delicious users in your network.

Twitter. Type Twitter to share the bookmark on your Twitter feed. Associate a Twitter account by logging into Twitter under the Twitter panel in the Send tab.

For Twitter Users
If you use Twitter and want to send bookmarks to your Twitter feed, associate a Twitter account (only a single Twitter account can be associated at one time) by logging into Twitter under the Twitter panel. You have the option to send all your saved bookmarks to Twitter by selecting the “Tweet all bookmarks unless private” checkbox when you add the Twitter account. If you’ve selected this option, your Twitter account will appear by default in the Send field.

Add a Short Message
By short, we mean 116 characters or less. For messages sent to Twitter, Delicious will generate a shortened URL (which looks like this: icio.us/1293uf). See notes below about the shortened URL.

How Recipients Receive Your Shared Bookmarks
When you share a bookmark, the recipients will see the following:

Delicious User Recipients: When you share a bookmark with another Delicious user, the bookmark will continue to appear in the user’s Delicious Inbox with any message you might have added when you shared the bookmark.

Email Recipients: When you email a bookmark to share with a friend, your friend will receive a short email with the share URL in its full and original form, any message you might have added, and a link to your bookmarks.

Twitter: Your message and a shortened URL of the site you bookmarked will appear in your Twitter feed as you see below.

Some Notes about Delicious Shortened URLs
When you tweet a bookmark with Delicious, we shorten the URL to leave more space for your message. We’ve dusted off our old icio.us domain to make links shorter for this purpose. When a user clicks on an icio.us shortened URL in a tweet, they are directed to the bookmarked site without any framing. Delicious forwards search engines to the site you bookmarked by using the recommended “301 Permanently Moved” redirection code. Any search engines that find your tweeted URLs will properly credit the shared site.

We hope this helps you to share the things you discover on the Web more easily with friends, colleagues, and family.

Rocco Caputo | delicious.com/braino
Ariel Seidman | delicious.com/aseidman