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Yahoo buys del.icio.us

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Yahoo buys del.icio.us.

del.icio.us trends

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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

Autoblog

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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).

By finding new sources of popular URLs (which requires a site with a list of popular URLs updated daily, which I will find interesting)
By finding new sites that tag URLs (which ideally requires an API to get the tags for a given URL)

There are lots of sources for popular URLs. But though many of sites, including notably Technorati, tag URLs, but none of them I know have APIs.

Comments

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Tagging

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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!

Comments

REMO 23 Jul 2005 4:29 pm: we expect something with a flavour of FINANCE from your page
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S Anand 9 Aug 2005 9:41 pm: A tagged list of tagging sites at supr.c.ilio.us.

Social Bookmarking Tools

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

D-Lib magazine reviews Social Bookmarking Tools.

Comments

Jetru 18 Apr 2005 7:38 am: i think you forgot something:D

Delicious tags

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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..