On 6/20/06, Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/06, Joshua Schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In general, a very small slice of user traffic makes use of > > intersections. I suspect that more complicated queries would be even > > less used.
> I don't know that this kind of extrapolation is particularly valid or > relevant. Of course most of the direct (tag based) browsing will be > simply of individual tags-- just like most searches are simple terms. The allocation of resources is clearly related to the degree they are used, and adding expensive resources may be the first step to the kind of "featuritis" that bedevils many applications, web and stand-alone. It seems reasonable to extrapolate from the low utilisation simpler complexities, that greater complexity would be even less used. KISS principle applies here I think. As with many other enhancements, most recently "Can I see the URLs explicitly?" perhaps a client side or web-based broker application (like del.icio.us director) is a better solution since it need only be adopted by those users that require it without impacting on the simplicity of the core. As I quote endlessly: "this is why a heavy-duty core will always lose...by definition, it must offer services which are of interest to only a subset of its users and yet all users are impacted by them..." /mtr > In those cases I simply don't use del.icio.us at all. An under-shot non-user market is only worth pursuing if it is large enough to justify the cost. > In both cases the potentual use and audience is hard to judge because > it isn't just a subset of current users that must be considered, but a > bunch of previously impossible/impractical uses! Indeed, it is difficult and I think the best evidence, actual use of available features, however supports the conclusion Joshua et al have made, while the opportunity exists for third-parties to supplement that functionality without permission. > I know del,icio.us > has to walk a line in implementation (and have argued here before when > it comes to keeping other features out/hidden), so don't take this as > criticism, simply observation. And a useful one. > c Hamish. -- http://del.icio.us/Hamish.MacEwan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/IHFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
