tagging
I've just discovered del.icio.us direc.tor which is an innovative and powerful user interface for managing your del.icio.us bookmarks. You add a bookmarklet to your FireFox (or MSIE) and launch it when browsing del.icio.us. What you get is a drop-down list of all your tags. Choose a tag and another drop-down list is populated with all related tags. Choose a tag from that ddl and the process continues. This is an excellent way to find links through tags and to see which of your tags are useful and...
It gets scarier: del.icio.us is down for emergency maintenance. we'll be back as soon possible. Yikes
Oops. del.icio.us are having some serious availability issues: System error error: Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at /www/del.icio.us/comp/user/get line 13. context: ... 9: my $usedb = 'master'; 10: my $ret; 11: 12: if (!$auth_user) { $usedb = 'user' } 13: if (!exists ($db->{$usedb})) { $usedb = 'master' } 14: $user_name_q->{$usedb} = $db->{$usedb}->prepare('select * from users where user_name = ?'); 15: my $query = $user_name_q->{$usedb}; 16: $query->execute(lc($user_na... 17:...
Just got the word from boingboing : del.icio.us is now part of Yahoo! I sure hope impact on del.icio.us is going to be minimal. http://blog.del.icio.us/blo
Check it out - Google Base is finally up. This is Google's publically available (and publically maintained!) open database of everything. A a repository of structured data that everyone can add to. You can either structure an "Item Type" for yourself or choose one from the many already defined and then you feed Items of that type into the system. Everything ends up indexed in Google Base's search engine. One possible use for it is for classified ads, much like craigslist. I noticed that when inputing...
For a while now I've been looking for a solution that will let me access my IE Favorites / FF Bookmarks, regardless of which computer I am working on. I often find interesting things on the web while at work, and I bookmark them for later reading because, well, I can't read them on the spot - I need to work :). The problem is that when I get home I am surprised to find the bookmarks aren't in my home computer. Silly me. So I've just opened an account on del.icio.us! I can store all my favorites/bookmarks...