I read both digg and reddit, myself. I think of them as a kind of forum,
with interesting rules and very visible incentive systems. Because
delicious is a system that is first for your own use and other people
after that, those incentives are not hugely relevant nor are they
appropriate for the health of the system. That's not to say some of the
metrics we show aren't completely unrelated nor are there incentives
that may be appropriate for the social side of delicious, for example.
One thing I've been toying with is some notion of who-finds-stuff-first
measurement, but our dataset is so large that my code has been running
for more than six weeks (!!!) and is only partway through. I'm pretty
interested in who-finds-stuff-first but even more so: what did they find
today? etc.
Joshua
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From: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Froh
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:14 AM
To: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: is del.icio.us a social news
service?
> While I'm not as crazy about Digg and others like I am about
> del.icio.us(because of its simplicity and usefulness), I still
think
> we need to enhance
> the social part of del.icio.us. Right now it's hard to find
(read: takes
> too
> much time) distinguished bookmarkers. Some friends also didn't
find *me*
> until I told them the username.
I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "distinguished" -- is it,
"most
bookmarks"? "Most active"? "Largest tag distribution"? IMHO, all
of those
metrics are potentially problematic in the same way that you
can't
necessarily judge the *quality* of a story on digg by
popularity.
My vote (if I get one) is to keep it simple -- so far that's
been the reason
I prefer del to the other bookmarking tools.
geoff
seattle, usa
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