Ever since my first post on the plethora of complimentary tools for Del.icio.us, a number of others have hit the scene to fill this niche or that void.  As a result I figured it was about time for a follow up. So, without further ado…  The Del.icio.us Redux…redux (the newest links that I've found or had submited are at the top, but not neccessarily in their order of release).

Konfabulator Widget - a Konfabulator widget for all you Mac (soon to be Windows also) based Del.icio.us users out there.

Wetaste.com - Sometimes, you may find yourself in this situation: you find a good piece while surfing the Web, however, you may almost forget where  you have been reading about it after a few days. Even Google can't help you find your reference. Del.icio.us provides a fantastic way to help you collect and archive useful links. You may want more, not just the url and a simple description, but the key part of the content you read (including pictures and visual effect). So is born this tool, wetaste.com. The working model of wetaste.com is very simple: You browse and digest (by selection or copy) —> wetaste.com (visiual editing, e.g. highlight) —> del.icio.us (archiving)

Foxylicious - Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks. The first time you use it, it will import all your del.icio.us bookmarks, and separate them by tags into bookmark folders. Subsequent imports will add any new del.icio.us bookmarks you've created since the initial import.

Backup del.icio.us - a tool for backing up your bookmarks

sid.vicio.us - creates ontologies for tags on del.icio.us

nutr.itio.us - javascript bookmarklet which allows you to select the text for the description field of the link you want to add to your delicious links.

avar.icio.us - another posting interface

extisp.icio.us - from the extispicious FAQ "Aside from the obvious keyword-quantity/font-size ratio, the representation isn't very meaningful at all - tag positioning is entirely random. Extisp.icio.us may do more meaningful things when it can get bite-sized correlation data from del.icio.us, but for now the tags are just randomly juxtaposed, allowing you to draw your own meanings and revelations from the overlapping entrails. Take what you will from it. "

taga.licio.us - "I found a lot of ways and hacks to integrate your delicious links into a page, but I wanted to fetch all links for a given set of tags, not just mine, so I wrote my own hack : introducing taga.licio.us, yet another del.icio.us php hack"

loqu.acio.us - Another javascript bookmarklet that adds some additonal information.  "These are two things that you might like using if you use a del.icio.us account with other people, or if you use more than one account. The first one lets people leave comments on your shared account without stomping on earlier comments: the second one lets you login and post to one account with a single click."

- A freeware MAC OS X client

I just couldn't pass this up. I was perusing the Del.icio.us full RSS feed which is a running list of all postings on Del.icio.us.   Anyway, I was just perusing this list. which by the way generates a few thousand posts a day, and I noticed all the "add-ons" for del.icio.us, so I couldn't help but create a list of them here.  As I am very fond of the site, please help me build a complete list by sending in tips of new/updated add-ons and I'll feature them here as they come in.

For now, the list is as follows:

sid.vicio.us - creates ontologies for tags on del.icio.us

nutr.itio.us - javascript bookmarklet which allows you to select the text for the description field of the link you want to add to your delicious links.

avar.icio.us - another posting interface

extisp.icio.us - from the extispicious FAQ "Aside from the obvious keyword-quantity/font-size ratio, the representation isn't very meaningful at all - tag positioning is entirely random. Extisp.icio.us may do more meaningful things when it can get bite-sized correlation data from del.icio.us, but for now the tags are just randomly juxtaposed, allowing you to draw your own meanings and revelations from the overlapping entrails. Take what you will from it. "

taga.licio.us - "I found a lot of ways and hacks to integrate your delicious links into a page, but I wanted to fetch all links for a given set of tags, not just mine, so I wrote my own hack : introducing taga.licio.us, yet another del.icio.us php hack"

loqu.acio.us - Another javascript bookmarklet that adds some additonal information.  "These are two things that you might like using if you use a del.icio.us account with other people, or if you use more than one account. The first one lets people leave comments on your shared account without stomping on earlier comments: the second one lets you login and post to one account with a single click."

Cocoal.icio.us - A freeware MAC OS X client

Update: Added Backup del.icio.us - a tool for backing up your bookmarks

Following on from my previous post on leveraging the power of social networks (yes…I know that with Plaxo this connection is tedious at best, but bear with me), scientists wonder about leveraging the web of relationships they create to stem the tide of spam.

"We routinely use our social networks to judge the trustworthiness of outsiders … to decide where to buy our next car, or where to find a good mechanic," said UCLA electrical engineering professor Vwani Roychowdhury, who developed the algorithm with fellow UCLA professor P. Oscar Boykin.

Who's going to BloggerCon 2004?

Good morning! I'm pleased to announce that we will hold our second BloggerCon on April 17, 2004 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. We would be very happy if you could join us.

The timing of this BloggerCon is at a turning point in the US political process. The first conference was held in October 2003, when the new excitement about the use of the Internet in the Presidential campaign was front and center. Now it's time, between the primaries and the conventions, to take stock, in time to apply what we've learned in the subsequent stages of the election. There will also, of course, be sessions on blogging in journalism, education, science and tutorials for people who are new to blogging. It's a user's conference about technology, it's not a meeting where technology amazes, rather it's a forum for the use of technology.

The cost to attend is $0. Please register at the URL below, so we can plan for the number of participants, and to communicate with people who will be there.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon/II/register

The format of the conference is four concurrent tracks of 1.5 hour sessions, moderated by a discussion leader. There are no panels. Each room will have experts and leaders, most of whom would be excellent panelists. The job of the moderator is to assemble a story by calling on the people at his or her disposal. They're like reporters putting together a story, but you get to hear, first hand what the experts are saying, in their own voices. Think of Dan Gillmor's adage that the people who read his weblog are much smarter than he is — that's also the philosophy of BloggerCon.

Registration starts at 8AM, the sessions start at 9AM and conclude at 5PM. We will have a party, sponsored by Adam Curry and myself on Saturday night. Remember the cost to attend is $0. If you want to make a contribution so we can have refreshments or help fund the party, or contribute your time, we will welcome that. ;->

Looks like the folks at Disney have picked up on the use of blogs and wiki's in the enterprise.  Check out Ross Mayfield excellent write up of the talk at ETCon.

Mike Pusateri, Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman at Disney shares their enterprise blogging initative. Its very similar to the experience we have had with Socialtext, without the integration of blog and wiki with enterprise requirements in mind. The focus on blogging for project communication instead of just individual expression is spot on.

Dave Pollard on the fatal flaws of first generation Social Networking sites and tools.

They're built with a pre-designed, set content architecture, and centrally-stored content, instead of harvesting content that individual users already have stored, in different ways of their own choosing, on their own machines.

They're being populated just-in-case, with all kinds of content that people with lots of time on their hands see fit to contribute, and no content from the very busy or technologically illiterate, rather than just-in-time, with content being accumulated only if and when there's a demand and need for it.

They're badly over-engineered, ranging in complexity from challenging to intimidating, so they take a lot of time, energy and intelligence to understand and use properly, and hence drive most potential users away.

Thanks to Brian Weaver over at Ryze for a post about FloodMT (http://terrato.org/index.pl?FloodMT) a flood "testing" application.  LOL…testing!! I LOVE IT!

FloodMT is the first integrated solution for testing Movable Type blogs for working anti-spamming features. It can also be used to check the effectiveness of plugins such as MT-Blacklist and ClearComments. It has been tested with Movable Type 2.6, and should even work with version 2.66 if a sufficient number of proxies are used.

Written in the procedural programming paradigm, FloodMT is a multithreaded script compatible with Python 2.2 and onwards, using only core libraries. It is the ideal solution for Movable Type crapflooders, scalable across the enterprise and all other applications. A port to Haskell is being considered.

According to Korby Parnels' weblog, it looks like Microsoft has seen the trend and is now starting to lock on their sights once again and the panel is a who's who of the Blogosphere…Everyone look out!!

Some bright bulbs over at Microsoft Research (MSR) have organized a Symposium on Social Computing on March 29th and 30th at the Columbia Winery north of Redmond.  Mark your calendars!  Word is, the talks will be streamed to the Web.  Stay tuned for details.  There will be 20 speakers (see below) and a cap of 70 attendees total. Apparently, only 20 invitations will be distributed to Microsoft employees. As Scoble puts it, This one is gonna be harder to get tickets to than the SuperBowl.  Why? Because geeks like me are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to rub elbows with luminaries such as Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, Ward Cunningham, Jenny Preece, and Tim O'Reilly.

Jason opines on the potential onslaught of meta -sters and the need for administrative assistants to manage the glut.

Or maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong. Perhaps we just need a web service for managing relationships on the social networking sites. A meta Friendster; Micrsoft Passport for social networking. We could call it, oh, I don't know, Metaster…or Sterster. Sign in to all the sites with one username and password. Invite metafriends to all the sites with a single click. Manage a single profile across all the sites.

Of course, the marketplace won't be content with just one metaster site. Multiple sites will spring up and we'll then require a metametaster site to manage the information in all the metaster sites. Of course, the marketplace won't be content with just one metametaster site.

Following on to Judith Meskills' post a few days ago talking about the arrival Orkut a Google affiliate, I wanted to thank my good friend Eric over at PickHits who has invited me in to the *inner circle* (ok…maybe that was too dramatic) at Orkut. 

So far, from what I can see, there's only one thing that differentiates it from the likes of Friendster, Linkedin, Ryze or any of the personals services like match.com, yahoo personals, etc…  Orkut has implemented a "Karma" system, where you can rate your connections in three different categories Cool, Sexy and Trustworthy. 

Make no mistake about it, this is pretty unique at the moment.  Most of the other sites have "testimonial" sections where you can write nice things about the person in a free form text field.  Orkut however appears to be the first to provide a rating scale that can then be compiled and the statistics used for *other* purposes.  The key to the karma system will be…what "other" purposes it will be used for and will Google ask for permission to use it or assume ownership of the data.   Just a few of the questions that we'll have to wait and find out about.

Right now Orkut claims that once a person is rated by 5 other people, there is some indication added to their profile that others have rated them.  As someone who has been rated, you have no way of finding out what the ratings are, just that someone has rated you.  On the other hand, since the ratings (see table below) are pretty positive in their nature there's really not much to worry about.

Hope to see you around Orkut.

Looks like Six Apart, the developers of Movable Type, have once again upgrade MT, mere weeks after releasing the 2.65 version, to address blog comment spam flooding. 

It seems that lots of Movable Type blogs are being "comment flooded" by spammers so Six Apart has issued this point release with comment throttling to hold back the waters until MT 3.0 is released with more advanced techniques. According to reports, 3.0 is scheduled to be released "early in Q1 of 2004"

The most current version can be downloaded as a patch or a full installation directly from the Movable Type download page.

Check out Dude, Check this Out beta.  It's social networking with a purpose.  Seriously, check this out, the implementation may not be so appealing, but conceptually it's spot on.