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Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No

Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.
- mercer 6y ago
  I still haven't found something that is quite as good as delicious was for finding other 'curators' with similar tastes (and then being able to filter what they curated by tag, iirc).
- diroussel 6y ago
  Yes I did this too. I found some great links this way. I was crawling a web of links. Also I bookmarked some random mp3 files and used the same tag for all of them. Then o took the RSS feed for that tag and subscribed to it in iTunes and then I had a custom podcast I could add to anytime just by adding a new bookmark.
  - joshu 6y ago
    i remember writing the code to enable that to happen. only took an afternoon. you could also get an rss feed of EVERYONE's mp3s under a given tag, and have a group podcast feed...
- EricE 6y ago
  I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).
r_klancer 6y ago
Back in 2006 I actually had a moment where I overheard someone at a university talking about an obscure subject (synthetic biology) I had spent the last couple of years saving del.icio.us links about. We soon had this conversation: Wait! Are you so-and-so? Dude, how did you know? We've been saving all the same links to del.icio.us! I had just finished a rotation in one of the handful of labs in the world that worked on this subject, and he had arrived to do a junior year summer internship in the same lab. Incidentally we both were led astray, in some sense, by all the Web 2.0 idealism of tools like del.icio.us; neither of us fit in in academic biology. He even took it to the extreme of opening a nonprofit to support DIY, "open source" biology ... (So very late-aughts!)
- joshu 6y ago
  this is literally the exact same reason delicious had tags. i had a text file of the format "url #notes\n" and the notes were pretty short. so i'd write "url #wifi #linux" or whatever. so a friend asked, "have you heard of this wifi thing?" and i said "yes, here's everything i collected" and just did 'grep \#wifi links' and pasted it to him. this later became tagging in muxway and then delicious.
joshu 6y ago
yes. any link saved publicly would end up on del.icio.us/url/<md5 of url>

Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.

mercer 6y ago
I still haven't found something that is quite as good as delicious was for finding other 'curators' with similar tastes (and then being able to filter what they curated by tag, iirc).
diroussel 6y ago
Yes I did this too. I found some great links this way. I was crawling a web of links. Also I bookmarked some random mp3 files and used the same tag for all of them. Then o took the RSS feed for that tag and subscribed to it in iTunes and then I had a custom podcast I could add to anytime just by adding a new bookmark.
- joshu 6y ago
  i remember writing the code to enable that to happen. only took an afternoon. you could also get an rss feed of EVERYONE's mp3s under a given tag, and have a group podcast feed...
EricE 6y ago
I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).

r_klancer 6y ago

Back in 2006 I actually had a moment where I overheard someone at a university talking about an obscure subject (synthetic biology) I had spent the last couple of years saving del.icio.us links about. We soon had this conversation: Wait! Are you so-and-so? Dude, how did you know? We've been saving all the same links to del.icio.us! I had just finished a rotation in one of the handful of labs in the world that worked on this subject, and he had arrived to do a junior year summer internship in the same lab. Incidentally we both were led astray, in some sense, by all the Web 2.0 idealism of tools like del.icio.us; neither of us fit in in academic biology. He even took it to the extreme of opening a nonprofit to support DIY, "open source" biology ... (So very late-aughts!)

joshu 6y ago
this is literally the exact same reason delicious had tags. i had a text file of the format "url #notes\n" and the notes were pretty short. so i'd write "url #wifi #linux" or whatever. so a friend asked, "have you heard of this wifi thing?" and i said "yes, here's everything i collected" and just did 'grep \#wifi links' and pasted it to him. this later became tagging in muxway and then delicious.

joshu 6y ago

yes. any link saved publicly would end up on del.icio.us/url/<md5 of url>