[ydn-delicious] is del.icio.us a social news service?

2006-10-09 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, Does del.icio.us compete with digg/reddit? If so, in what sense? Clearly, a hot news item that is known by hundreds of people can become a hot news item on del.icio.us. But what if the news item is only known by a handful of people or even just one person? In that case, would digg/reddit be

RE: [ydn-delicious] subwebs and better link recommendations

2006-10-09 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Amir Michail wrote: * when entering a bookmark, you supply not only tags but also virtual inlinks and virtual outlinks; for example, when bookmarking TeXmacs, you might supply LyX as a virtual inlink and several TeXmacs resources pages as virtual outlinks. [snip] If simply having pre- and

Re: [ydn-delicious] How to disable/hide ... saved by xxx other people text

2006-10-09 Thread Mislav Marohnić
Yes there is. If you're using Firefox, you can install the Stylish extension. Once on the del.icio.us page, find a pattern (CSS selector) for those elements. All those elemens can be selected with div.meta a.pop. Easy. Now click on the Stylish icon in the status bar. Choose write style for

[ydn-delicious] Re: Can del.icio.us update an existing link automatically?

2006-10-09 Thread Stephan Zehrer
Well, in general i like this functions. I thought more like a like check function which checks the link time by time if the site is still available ( so after n times it could be taged with a special tag, or something else or just mark it). An automatic update is realy not a good solution only

[ydn-delicious] API Authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Brett OConnor
Hey, have there been any thoughts on expanding on the del.icio.us API authentication scheme? Specifically, what about doing the shared secret method between an application and del.icio.us so that no storage / transference of the del.icio.us username and password has to happen? The reason I ask

[ydn-delicious] Graphs of tag popularity?

2006-10-09 Thread Patrick Hall
Hi, Random idea: I think it would be very interesting to see stock-market-style graphs of which tags are the most popular. Personally, I'd like to compare names of human languages: How does Spanish compare to Español? Español vs Português? and so on. But that's just me; I imagine computer

RE: [ydn-delicious] Graphs of tag popularity?

2006-10-09 Thread Joshua Schachter
interesting idea. one problem is normalization: pretty much everything is a standard hockey-stick graph _ From: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Hall Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:48 PM To: