Re: [delicious-discuss] Posting API date format

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Del Vecchio
That format is defined in ISO 8601 and is used commonly in web services, where the clients and servers may be distributed across multiple time zones. There are library functions in many languages which produce ISO 8601 valid dates, like PHP5: http://us2.php.net/date Also, while I'm being

[delicious-discuss] using gzip compression w/ wget for del.icio.us rss feeds

2005-08-18 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, I tried this but it (apparently) doesn't compress: wget --header=Accept-Encoding: gzip --timestamping http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/... Should not the downloaded file be in gzip format? Amir ___ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us

Re: [delicious-discuss] using gzip compression w/ wget for del.icio.us rss feeds

2005-08-18 Thread joshua schachter
Amir Michail wrote: Hi, I tried this but it (apparently) doesn't compress: wget --header=Accept-Encoding: gzip --timestamping http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/... Should not the downloaded file be in gzip format? Fascinating. Looks like this is broken. I will figure it out. Useful tester at:

[delicious-discuss] tag pecularities in a search engine

2005-08-18 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, It seems that searching using tags is a bit tricky and can give unexpected results. For example, one might expect the query movie reviews to work well, but perhaps movies reviews works better (e.g., in cases where most people use the tags movies and reviews rather than movie and reviews).

Re: [delicious-discuss] tag pecularities in a search engine

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Del Vecchio
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. The recommendation engine announced last week http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-August/003749.html is similar, but I think it's geared more towards discovery than search. One could easily imagine an expand this search to include similar tags flag

[delicious-discuss] tag pecularities in a search engine

2005-08-18 Thread John Tropea
Hi, I've also wondered on how to be exhaustive on a tag search. I'd like to search all tags that contain certain characters, then from my tag list, click on the tags I want to search...or one day you could click on all the boxes you'd like to search and it create a big OR query That way if I