#del.icio.us

"An online debate has already begun about various ways that Delicious might be “saved”. As someone who was on the inside for a while and who wants very much to see Delicious live on, I thought I’d chime in"

I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team of heroes. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load of enqueued we'll-fix-it-laters. Selected joshu quotes: "I think the open question now is whether the remaining team will be able to innovate or be stuck in complicated codebase hell. ... I have significant regret over what ended up happening with Delicious. We could have gone so much farther. ... engineering was focused on the rewrite so nobody had time to replace the old search engine ... They had the technology, but the relevant staff had higher priorities."

"Today I’m pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility."

rss has a taste.

"Gathering our forces to do battle against another day's worth of action items."

"As it's implemented in JavaScript it does have one or two accessibility drawbacks as well as being hard to integrate with my page theming system. This prompted me to investigate the feasibility of writing a server side version."

"Dishy is a JavaScript wrapper for the del.icio.us JSON REST API."

"I’m also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation." How meta is this now?

My copy of source code for examples in Hacking del.icio.us

Simple. Delicious. Pukka (click here for pronunciation) is a minimalist posting client for del.icio.us.

"This page uses the post api to make a quick post."

"Les Orchard, author of "Hacking del.icio.us," has been in the process of making his way to Silicon Valley, where he will work for the Yahoo-owned Delicious bookmarking service. "

"All but one of the tools listed below must be used in combination with Firefox."

"mini-deli.py is the latest CVS version, which is just a simple proxy that stashes the XML results in a lookaside directory"

"Here's an Applescript that takes the front tab in Safari and automatically posts it to Del.icio.us, giving it the tag "@review" and notifying you of success or failure via Growl."

"What works best for me is to apply tags consistently for all types of metadata for a resource, but freely associative for the rest."

"...I realize the definition of Folksonomy has become completely unglued from anything I recognize..."

"Using their RSS feed for popular videos, Prodigem now automatically torrents the most popular videos on the web as decided by the del.icio.us folksonomy."

"Populicio.us still lost their service because their reliance on del.icio.us fell away, but the lesson here is that screen scraping HTML comes with those risks by nature."

"MySQL is just not built for large tag-systems. It just doesn't scale. It does scale up to 1 Million items but delicious does have far more posts."

Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.

"You can load a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks, by including the following script"

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"The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them)."

"I wanted a nice simple way to mirror my daily bookmarks that I’ve added to del.icio.us into WordPress"

"I just released the recommendation engine."

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