Search Results for del.icio.us
del.icio.us redesign
The new look for del.icio.us splits the interface in half, placing
popular links on the right and recent links on the left. Great… what's next? :) [Via Tech Crunch] ...
Del.icio.us to add private bookmarks and more
Here's something that will make a lot of potential new users more comfortable, the tagging/social bookmarking service del.icio.us says they'll be rolling out the ability to mark some items
private next week. Presumably the vast majority of things bookmarked will still be social, so users won't
miss out on the network effect and search power. Amongst other changes underway at del.icio.us is that the new URL info page that displays tags given a certain URL has
added a "related items" feature - just like a couple of folks were showing off
over the last few days via their use of the del.icio.us API. ...
Does del.icio.us want to be MySpace?
It seems that everyone wants to by MySpace these days, or at least harness the customer-love (read: clickthroughs and eyeballs?) of social networking software. Del.icio.us today announced another increasingly sophisticated iteration of its new social function. Now people who've added you to their contacts list will be visible from your account, etc. Is this how RSS is going to end up being adopted, through means like this? I am perfectly capable of subscribing to peoples' bookmark feeds amongst my many feed subscriptions - but to be honest I almost never look at anything but my archive and other peoples' by tag in del.icio.us. Do readers here foresee themselves using del.icio.us as a social networking app? Perhaps they are getting ready for the hordes of new users that will come in with full Yahoo promotion. ...
PR Newswire adds del.icio.us support
I was just writing elsewhere about the Washington Post/ Technorati partnership ("Who's blogging about this article") when I noticed
that PRNewswire has added a link to every press release to bookmark its URL into del.icio.us! I love examples of newish, oldish media integrating
with...what was that distinction again? It's so relative these days who's old and who's new. Both of
the above examples further muddy the waters of debates like the one that went on in this week's Gilmor Gang podcast with Tech.Memeorandum's Gabe Rivera as the
guest. Does the NYTimes "own [as in dominate] Memeorandum" and all its ilk despite the groundswell of
change in the information landscape? Is that even the right question to ask in light of emerging partnerships
like the above? Perhaps further illustrating the messiness of adoption and change is the fact that neither
PRNewswire nor Del.icio.us appear to have anything to say about the partnership on their own company ...
Yahoo gobbles up del.icio.us
Well, now, isn't this fascinating — Yahoo acquired
del.icio.us. Wonder if this means I'll be able to stop using the combination bookmarklet for del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 at some point and
get one bookmarklet to rule them all. Automagic sync between del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 bookmarks? Or will the services
get merged somehow? Anybody have predictions they want to throw down? ...
Del.icio.us visualization roundup
Speaking of getting excited (and also of
del.icio.us), Solution Watch has
a nice roundup of del.icio.us visualization
tools. As previously confessed, I lurve
these kinds of visualizations — the whole point of amassing all of this data and metadata is that we get to remix
it, mash it up, and look at it in different ways. It's not that visualization is a new concept, but I feel like this is
still only the beginning of understanding what we can do with and learn from these kinds of web-based visual interfaces
for presenting, analyzing, and interacting with this new flood of data/metadata so many of us are busy creating,
tagging, organizing and sharing. ...
The del.icio.us recommendation engine
So the new del.icio.us recommendation engine
has been out for a few days now, and I expected to be pretty jazzed about this new feature… but after spending a few
days with it, I have to be honest and say that I'm not. I just haven't actually found it very useful. I see a list of
tags other people are using, most of which I also already use. I see a list of recommended links (just the link URLs,
no title, no description), but nothing whatsoever about those links and what they contain — it's like I'm
being asked to trust the recommendation engine implicitly without being given any information about how it works or why
its recommendations will be relevant. Am I going to take it on faith that it's worth my time to click through and
discover what's there? Well, the answer so far is that no, I won't, and I don't. Maybe if the recommended links were
listed with title and description as well as just the plain link itself?
Also, I'm going to reiterate that I want some sort of
graphical ...
Oishii, a del.icio.us mini-zeitgeist
If you're a like-minded infovore who finds yourself refreshing the del.icio.us home and popular pages every thirty seconds or so to see what's going on, you should check
out Oishii — it polls the del.icio.us front page every five minutes and
returns a linked list of those entries that have been bookmarked by 30 people or more. Think of it as a sort of
del.icio.us mini-zeitgeist — a snapshot of what's hot and relevant to the hivemind at a given moment in time.
[Via Smartmobs] ...
Vox Delicii: a del.icio.us popular visualizer
So I'm completely fascinated by the metadata
visualization tools surrounding sites like Flickr,
del.icio.us, et al. As we keep collecting this kind of metadata on mindshare
and meme attraction over time, we're going to be able to go back and examine thought trends — not to mention examining
them in real-time — in a way that's completely unprecedented. There are still a lot of questions to shake out about
what the data means — but that's precisely the fun part.
Michal Migurski's Vox Delicii is
precisely fun. It's a Flash-based near-realtime visualization of the most popular links posted to del.icio.us, sorted
by date and popularity. The size of each color chip correlates with the relative coverage of that item on a given day,
based on samples taken hourly. Green indicates the link has grown in mindshare while red indicates the reverse, and
chips are arranged in order of first appearance on del.icio.us — farther to the left is older, to the right is
newer. ...
Revealicious, a del.icio.us bookmark visualizer
Courtesy of Sébastien Pierre, Olivier Zitvogel and Yann Klis comes
Revealicious, another Flash-based visual interface into your
del.icio.us collection. It's got three modes: SpaceNav, where you can
explore the structure of related tags via expanding circle navigation. this is my favorite of the three — you can pick
a tag and see which other tags you often associate with it, and grok their relative frequency based on the size of the
circle that represents that tag. TagsCloud shows a weighted list of your tags and dynamically highlights the other tags
associated with a chosen tag when you mouse over it. Grouper clusters tags visually according to frequency of use, so
you can see at a glance which tags are most used, commonly used, and least used.
[Via Information Aesthetics] ...
Copy links from del.icio.us to My Web 2.0 Greasemonkey script
As you regular readers may know, I tend to get excited about things.
Greasemonkey is one of those excitable things — not social software, no,
but totally Web 2.0, aight? All of which is a tangential preamble to the real reason I'm writing this post, which is to
clue in any of you fellow moonlighters using both del.icio.us and
My Web 2.0 to a sweet little
script from Jason Riley that will add a tiny >>Y! link
next to each del.icio.us bookmark (all of them, not just your own), should you wish to quickly port one of them over to
My Web 2.0 without muss, fuss, or complications. We here at the Social Software Weblog vote a resoundingly unanimous
yes on removing muss, fuss and complications — so this script garners our solid approval. Don't forget, there's also a
way to import all your del.icio.us links to Web
2.0 in one fell swoop, as well. Go thou and practice social bookmark polygamy just a little bit easier.
[Via
Download
Squad] ...
Combination bookmarklet for del.icio.us and My Web 2.0
Ooooh, nice — Thomas Vander Wal has cooked up a
combination bookmarklet for posting simultaneously
to del.icio.us and My Web
2.0 in one fell swoop. Why choose just one? I rather enjoy a bit of non-monogamy in my tools.
[Via Preoccupations] ...
Watch del.icio.us bookmarks in real time via LiveMarks
So I'm digging LiveMarks — it lets you watch new items
bookmarked to del.icio.us in real time. The right pane fills up with the new
bookmarks, automagically refreshing the page as each one gets added, while the left pane shows what's recently popular.
The magic of AJAX is making these kinds of real-time data flows possible, and I'm loving it — and I want them more
integrated with my desktop environment, as well. I want this in my Dashboard (widget, anyone?). I want this as my
screensaver. I want to be able to get this as a transparent overlay by pressing a function key. What I don't want to
have to do is remember which friggin' browser tab I have it open in.
[Via
Download
Squad] ...
Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions?
Sometimes I'd like to try out new Social Bookmarking services, like one that just went public called Ma.gnolia. But if I go and try them out, will I lose everything I tag into that
archive if I decide to remain with del.icio.us - where the bulk of my bookmarks now
reside? What's at issue here on one
level is a single sentence: "Our import feature has been turned off for a few days while we fix some bugs.
Sorry!" How long has that been what you get when you click "import" in del.icio.us? For
almost as long as I can remember. That seems pretty disingenuous. The fact that the option remains on
the screen, just crossed out, seems lazy. The fact that del.icio.us isn't listed on the Yahoo Properties Help Page at all seems
downright apathetic or worse. (Neither is Flickr or Upcoming, you'll notice.) ...
Continue reading Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions?
Listmixer is perishable bookmarks
I think I like this new app Listmixer. Its bookmarklet saves a URL for me,
lets me tag and describe it - and if 30 days ever go by without my looking at it, the link is deleted from my
account. I can hover over any of the links and get a menu for tagging them into del.icio.us, furl, newsvine,
reddit, simpy, blinklist and more. And I can grab my archive by RSS. The functionality is smooth. The
look is humorously unpretentious. I'm not quite sure how I'll fit this into my work flow yet, but I have a hunch
it's going to find its place. Sites I'd like to subscribe to, for example, would be great to just tag into a
temporary archive. If I haven't followed through in 30 days, then I probably wasn't that interested in the first
place! It's the handy work of Sid Stewart and I discovered it
via eHub. ...
