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del.icio.us
I found out about del.icio.us through a post by Chris Shiflett. In short, it’s a place to store and share your bookmarks in a central location, and it has a built-in community aspect, showing who has bookmarked the same links. I’ve already got over 125 bookmarks in my collection.
After playing around with del.icio.us for a while, I’ve come up with a wishlist for enhancements:
- OR operator
- WITHOUT operator
- More than 30 links in RSS feed
I’ve noticed that the RSS feeds show only up to 30 bookmarks. I discovered this when I subscribed to my bookmarks from Firefox 1.0PR (with Live Bookmarks) and didn’t see them all.I’m sure others have their own wishlists of enhancements, but I think these three items would definitely increase the power of del.icio.us.
Currently, you’re able to add categories (or “tags”) together in an AND comparison, but I’d like to see something like an OR that pulls everything from two different tags.
Similar to my wish above, I’d like to see the ability to exclude any bookmarks with specific tags from a view.
That last one on your wish list bugged me, too. I think it has to do with the problems Josh has had trying to handle the load more than anything else.
To get around it, I just use his API instead of the RSS feed. I fetch all of the tags I’ve used and then dump a list of links for each tag. Yes, links with more than one tag get reproduced, but I prefer that. My implementation is pretty ugly at the moment – it’s just a quick hack:
http://shiflett.org/links
I’ll clean it up later and possibly add a few more things.
Don’t forget that you can subscribe to the mailing lists and request these features. I’ve been lurking on them for several days now, and Josh seems to be pretty responsive to suggestions.
By the way, you need a “remember me” option on this blog, so I don’t have to type in my name and such every time I visit.
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 at 0:52 UTC | Permalink