[ydn-delicious] Re: Link checker for del.icio.us?

2007-05-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:43:25PM +0200, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 39 lines which said: Does somebody know of a link check service for del.icio.us? I just released mine: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/disastrous.html A feature often requested by del.icio.us users is

Re: [ydn-delicious] Re: Link checker for del.icio.us?

2007-05-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb: The best place to put such a link checker are certainly inside del.icio.us itself. Actually, I don't think so. The best place for such a thing is on the client machine. Reason: There can be URLs, which are not reachable from the outside, and thus such a service,

[ydn-delicious] Re: Link checker for del.icio.us?

2007-05-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:43:12PM +0200, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 323 lines which said: The best place to put such a link checker are certainly inside del.icio.us itself. Actually, I don't think so. Anyway, the discussion is purely theoretical because we

RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: Link checker for del.icio.us?

2007-05-17 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: My main concern about tools like disastrous is that popular links, bookmarked by N persons, will be checked N times... Precisely why it would be very nice if Yahoo/Delicious did centralized link checking...much less bandwidth being used overall. Since Yahoo is

RE: [ydn-delicious] feature request: suggested alternates for when a tag is not found

2007-05-17 Thread Joshua Schachter
This is a good idea. Question: By what mechanisms can you end up on a nonexistant tag page? What can we do to make that happen less? Joshua -Original Message- From: ydn-delicious@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sheila miguez Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:49

RE: [ydn-delicious] Re: Link checker for del.icio.us?

2007-05-17 Thread Joshua Schachter
This is something we would like to do. However, I am planning on using resources from Yahoo Search, and that is a very big machine and it does things in a very particular way. I would like to someday have per-url metadata (rather than per-bookmark, which is what you have) which would vary from,