social-bookmarking 6

Yahoo buys del.icio.us.

Trend sweet trend shows recent trends in del.icio.us bookmarks.

I have an automated (and lazy) way of finding interesting sites. This is what I do every day. I get the del.icio.us tags of every URL I blog about. (It’s available at http://del.icio.us/rss/url/ followed by the MD5 hex version of the URL). I pick the most popular tags (at least 50 links must have this tag), and use them as my “preferred tags” I scan the most popular sites on del.icio.us, and get each site’s tags If a site has my preferred tags, I give it points (the number of points is equal to the number of times I’ve blogged that tag) I pick the top 5 sites based on my points, and read them. There are two problems I have now. Firstly, I will find sites similar to those I have blogged about – not discover anything new. That’s fine to start with – I can search for those manually. The bigger problem is, this is restricted to del.icio.us. There are two ways I can extend this (lazily). ...

Tagging is in full swing. del.icio.us, Furl, My Web 2.0, Spurl etc. tags URLs Yummy tags PDFs Rojo tags RSS feeds Tagcloud, 24 eyes, Feedmarker, etc. tag RSS posts Technorati tags blog posts Tagsurf tags discussions Job Bazaar tags job postings Gmail tags e-mails (but you can’t share tags) Connotea and CiteULike tag academic references Swik tags open-source projects Snippets tags source code 43 things tags things you want to do 43 places tags places you want to visit Diggs tags stories Library Thing tags books Reader 2 tags books Upcoming tags events Dinnerbuzz tags restaurants Flickr tags photos Tagzania tags locations Freesound tags sounds Podcast tags podcasts Upto 11 tags P2P music Music mobs and Genie Lab tag music You tube tags videos In fact, supr.c.ilio.us tags tagging sites! ...

D-Lib magazine reviews Social Bookmarking Tools. Comments Jetru 18 Apr 2005 7:38 am: i think you forgot something:D

If you move the mouse over a link, a popup appears, showing the most popular tags on del.icio.us for the link. Click on the tag to visit all related links on del.icio.us. Comments Sathish 15 Apr 2005 3:56 am: What is this post related to? Did try out the new “big del.icio.us post” script? or are you talking of something else? S Anand 15 Apr 2005 4:02 am: If you move your mouse over any of my blog posts, a tooltip pops up. Did you notice? Sathish 18 Apr 2005 5:05 am: I notice it now.. I notice it on the right hand side corner of the page.. I am using firefox to view.. is it how u planned to show it or is there a problem? S Anand 18 Apr 2005 6:03 am: Looks like a problem. I will check it out. sathish 20 Apr 2005 3:59 am: it works now..