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If I remember correctly the terms of sale required that they get each user's permission to use their links, so the site was vastly diminished. Again if I remem
by irickt 9y ago
If I remember correctly the terms of sale required that they get each user's permission to use their links, so the site was vastly diminished.
Again if I remember correctly there was a decent API for del.ico.us but this was not a priority for delicious.com.
The site was premised on the idea of "folksonomy" ie that structure would emerge from the accumulated links. This hypothesis didn't bear out.
- idlewords 9y agoThe folksonomy hypothesis bore out pretty well. Look at the world of machine learning around you. Prior to Delicious, many people were convinced that you could not get useful tagging data without a controlled vocabulary. Oops.
- joshu 9y ago"folksonomy" was a word created after the fact to describe what I built. Therefore not a premise. Most users did have structure to their bookmarks. If I had been allowed resources I think we would have built something that lined up similar structures across users and groups of users. I believe the hypothesis was robustly accurate, especially in the modern world of machine learning.