On 6/20/06, Hamish MacEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems reasonable to extrapolate from the low utilisation simpler > complexities, that greater complexity would be even less used.
Fair enough, except that what is "complex" is in part determined by the use. I simply think that positing the use of OR/NOT as ONLY a subset of those who use the current AND facility is inaccurate. I think if such features were available we would see more uptake than one might expect looking only at direct browsing statistics. > > 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. But I think this is an undershot market of application not an undershot group of users. That can be statistically significant. Further, I think it is right in the zone of one of what I perceive to be a del.icio.us goal-- to facilitate research and use to see what tagging and folksonomic application of resources can grow to be, not just catering to the most popular 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. Agreed, which is why I find the lack of more query techniques less vexing than other problems. There is a difference in the two things I am talking about. I can create a local app using my del data that can give me further query logic (though that is tedious, painful, and the fact that few do it is in no way a predictor of how it might be used). I cannot, however, work around the intrinsic limitations that work actively against group tagging because what is lost to history in the RSS feeds is simply lost and not recoverable outside of the API. c ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/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/
