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extisp.icio.us 2008

generated by extisp.icio.us based on my Del.icio.us bookmarks, and added to the flickr extispicious pool

This is the 4th year I’ve done this.

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For those who don’t have a blogging tool that auto-magically adds tag’s the process can seem a bit bewildering, especially when there is so much to do.

We have come a long way since Folksonomies on Slashdot, and since the Beta of Blogger.com looks to include tagging (making my Technorati and del.icio.us Tags added with GreaseMonkey for Blogger.com users obsolete) it is worth a review.

The trick was a convention to add a attribute to the “common” hyperlink markup code too something like <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a> . More details are on the MicroFormat Wiki under reltag, because the secret sauce is that rel=”tag”.

Remember that the url does not really matter! It could be del.icio.us, or technorati or YouTube, or even something internal to this site like Code.

The rel=”tag” is the microformat that tells any tag aware search engine that text in the anchour link is the tag lable. All tag aware search engines will eat the tagged links regardless of where its linking to. (see also Technorati’s help page on Tags)

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Via Niall Kennedy we have a glance into the creatation of WhuffieTracker at Mash pit, which he has hacked together with collaborated with Caterina Fake, Chris Ratcliff, and Josh Kinberg

Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

WhuffieTracker is an ego surfing tool which aggregates (or will aggregate, when it’s working!) all blog posts, comments, links, tags, photos, conversations and bits of attention focused on you you you.

Which of course sounds like egoSurf, and has shades of Eh List created by Chris Nolan. And beggs the question why technorati is’nt doing this.

It’s still very Beta, but what do you want in four hours?

In less than four hours yesterday afternoon our team brainstormed the product features, designed a site and a logo, researched possible sources of data, registered a domain name, setup and configured a database and server, created database schema, and wrote some PHP.

(check out the whuffietracker transfer device!) Much Whuffie to them!

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generated by extisp.icio.us based on my Del.icio.us bookmarks, and added to the flickr extispicious pool

This was the 2005 snapshot

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Yahoo! has just acquired del.icio.us, the social bookmarking service, as announced on the Yahoo and the Del.icio.us blog’s

What’s the big deal about delicious? Well you can read What’s so cool about del.icio.us?, and or what I wrote a year ago here Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr on Slashdot and on slashdot : Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr,

But the shortest answer is that Del.icio.us, and Flickr.com (also a part of Yahoo!, since last winter), populized the folksonomies (tagging) and the Social and Share web space. This looks like a good thing for Del.icio.us and Yahoo! More stuff tagged on Del.icio.us under the tag: Del.icio.us, what else, and Yahoo

Also the Globe & Mail has a large article on the Un-Google and Yahoo’s search for Net supremacy, and how the Web portal is on a mission to beat Google for surfers’ loyalties and advertising dollars in a battle that could dramatically alter their cyberscape. lots of background and figures to thinks about.

Also John Battelle has scouted out details of the deal , and has a interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in this months Business 2.0.

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Via the del.icio.us blog, we have del.icio.us: we rolling and several new ways to add “my del.icio.us” into your blog or side bar, as “simple” as inserting some javascript or calling Javascript Objects (or JSON’s), either way it’s more stuffing for our sausage makers!

I’ve used this to add a LinkRoll page to the side bar.

Fred Wilson posted about Delicious Link Roll ( pre public but then he has a reason to keep a closer eye on them ), with a interesting idea : using a tag “Link roll” to limit what shows up.

Also, if only Delicious had better tagging operatation you could feed it a list of tag and do a “show bookmarks related to this topic” sort of thing.

Nov 15th Update

Del.icio.us has completly revamped their help page, and exposed a new feature : Tag Rolls, a way for you to display your del.icio.us tags as part of your website. I’ve placed a tag Cloud of my top del.icio.us tags over on the Link page.

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