Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the del.icio.us category.
Actually integrating Firefox + del.icio.us (at last)
I just installed this Firefox add-on (by Yahoo! Inc.), which actually allows to integrate your del.icio.us account into your Firefox profile.
Well, it’s quite straightforward so I won’t bother getting into the details, but it’s absolutely worth a try.
So far I used to use another extension which just allowed the user to tag a page and add it to his del.icio.us bookmarks: the feeling I had before was that my del.icio.us bookmarks were just separated from my Firefox bookmarks (and they actually were). Now I really feel they are a single, integrated set, since I can browse, add and search links in Firefox.
Some months ago I actually thought having such an extension would be nice, glad to see guys @ Yahoo! worked on it. 
Backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
Ok, social bookmarking is cool. But what if I want to backup my del.icio.us bookmarks?
A nice – few lines long – script in Python using del.icio.us API is here: A song for the lovers ยป Backup delicious.
Web 2.0 definitions: labelling the Web – semantic – evolution
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Phil Wainewright @ ZDNet Blogs gives his own Web 2.0 definition in this post.
Actually I share this point of view:
“What I have noticed, though, is that I can be having conversations with people about Web 2.0 in which I realize that we’re each talking about completely different aspects of the phenomenon“.
Some definitions are particularly popular, first of all the – verbose – one by Tim O’Reilly (and its compact version), who was one of the first to use the term Web 2.0 ever.
Yet his “Web 2.0 is the network as platform“ perspective is absolutely true, interesting, but not far from what the Web in its original vision and version has always been. It’s always been about connecting people and exchanging information too, so according to Tim Berners-Lee “Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means”.
My approach to the definition of the phenomenon is twofold: on the first hand Web 2.0
A del.icio.us growth
Since Yahoo! acquired del.icio.us social bookmarking website, the latter is experiencing a fast growth in traffic, new stats by Hitwise report. Yet, social bookmarking traffic still represents a small fraction of the whole web traffic, and much of the world is not using this kind of services.
Read more @ TechCrunch.
