Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Clay Shirky
I'm wondering if it would be possible to treat users as any other URI. Why not just do exactly that -- I just tagged http://del.icio.us/cshirky; with 'bald impoverished unreliable' -- what other kind of operation do you need. -c I'd like to be able to tag myself, male, husband,

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua Schachter
Yeah, but I'd like to make it a bit more explicit; people seem to tag themselves and others quite a bit. And as others have suggested this might make an interesting way to find people. -j -- joshua schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://del.icio.us On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Clay Shirky wrote: I'm

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Michael Newton
or, maybe all the tags that anyone has stuck on that user. i think this is a great feature idea. M. On 6/2/05, Matt MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gotcha makes sense. So maybe it'd be good have that as part of the user interface... when I go to a users homepage it displays the tags that

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua Schachter
Seems like a good way to be a griefer. -j On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Michael Newton wrote: or, maybe all the tags that anyone has stuck on that user. i think this is a great feature idea. M. On 6/2/05, Matt MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gotcha makes sense. So maybe it'd be good have that as

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Nitin Borwankar
Actually, people tagging other people is the basis of a reputation system isn't it? People tagging other people seems like a looser and wider version of an ebay rating systems or similar systems such as advogato peer ratings. A related app I built for a non profit (Nautilus Group

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Quintus Frimschlowder VIII
If a system is implemented whereby a user can tag another user, there will no doubt be many people who will make it their first goal to tag every user with stinks. -QF8 http://scatterbrain.raygunarmy.com/ On 6/2/05, Nitin Borwankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, people tagging other

RE: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Breakall, Scott
QF8, That sounds a lot like John Dvorak's comment that you suck would be the most popular tag ever (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1819101,00.asp)! ~Scott~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quintus Frimschlowder VIII Sent: Thursday,

[delicious-discuss] server move schedule and downtime

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua Schachter
We will be moving to new servers on Sunday, June 5 starting at noon EST and hopefully completing by 4 PM. The site will be unavailable during this time. Updates will be posted to this blog during that time, and we will also have live status at #delicious on irc.del.icio.us. -j -- joshua

Re: [delicious-discuss] Feature request: Tag myself?

2005-06-02 Thread Quintus Frimschlowder VIII
Well, I wouldn't say that I'm quite as cynical on the matter as he is. I think tagging in general and utilities like del.icio.us are just great (obviously, or I wouldn't be here). I am of the mind, however, that there are generally a few bad apples in every internet community, and that actions

Re: [delicious-discuss] Recommended tags based on a site's URL

2005-06-02 Thread Clifford Caoile
On 6/3/05, Scott Villarosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An example: Nobody has bookmarked www.mysiteaboutcars.com. You del it. Del suggests the tags cars, auto, personal and homepage in its 'recommended' tags. Thoughts? If delicious had a recommendation system for untagged pages, that would be

Re: [delicious-discuss] Recommended tags based on a site's URL

2005-06-02 Thread Sam Joseph
In the NeuroGrid system I used to extract all the words from a page, remove stopwords and then present the most frequently occuring terms to the user as tag possibilities. More sophisticated approaches might use TFIDF or something like that. The main problem with this, and indeed any other

Re: [delicious-discuss] Recommended tags based on a site's URL

2005-06-02 Thread Ofer Nave
I didn't like the idea at first, because when you make it easy by suggesting keywords, people will just be lazy and take them, instead of contributing to the folksonomy. But I liked it better when I realize it's kinda similiar to the Statistically Improbable Phrases feature amazon recently