Tikitu brought my attention back to this neat del.icio.us feature: just tag a link with for:username (e.g. for:justl0l ;-)) if you want to recommend a link to a del.icio.us user. That user can than go to http://del.icio.us/for/thatuser and see the links recommended to him/her. (S)he can even get a personalized rss feed from it. Use it!
Who controls the information? In this modern age, search engines have a distinct influence on the retrieval of information from the internet. Your average user will, when prompted with the need to look up information, go to google and look for the pages. This gives google power: when google decides a certain topic, company, organisation or whatever is not acceptable they can keep it out of the search result. In effect, the major search engines bias what the average user sees of the internet.
In order to remedy this situation, we came up with the OpenSearch idea: a search engine that is distributed, not under central control and therefore difficult to manipulate.
Workshop
MOB TAGGING
August 25th Amsterdam
Mobtagging, or social tagging, is the activity of attaching labels (metadata) to online information. Popular sites like Flickr.com, Del.icio.us or Technorati.com use users tags to structure contributions. Mediamatic organizes in cooperation with Amsterdam New Media Institute a one-day workshop on the creative uses and practical implications of this new development on the web.
Several speakers out of the field of information architecture and new media design, will first speak about this new way of structuring and using information on the web. After having a clear vision on mob-tagging and its possibilities, you experiment with pre-tagged information, discuss and evaluate your own scenarios.
Check http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-200.9187.html for more information about this workshop and register online!
another fine del.icio.us app:
type this in your browser http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name= and fill in a del.icio.us name behind it.
e.g. informationlab, jacoplane, justl0l, tikitu.
Alright, i admit, we ARE all geeks …
Zoals jullie weten is het uploaden van muziek, films en software - waar auteursrechten op rusten - illegaal in Nederland. Voor al diegenen die wel eens muziek uploaden, wees gewaarschuwd, de stichting brein heeft sinds oktober grootschalig uploaders in de gaten gehouden en verstuurt binnenkort vorderingen! Downloaden van films en muziek wordt gezien als ‘een kopie voor eigen gebruik’ en is daarom legaal.
zie ook stichting brein en Ban illegale games en software.
Een programma waar je mee kan leechen (downloaden zonder uploaden) is bv soulseek - maar dat staat natuurlijk lijnrecht tegenover de filosofie van het delen. Mensen die downloaden via het bittorrent protocol lopen wel gevaar omdat je alleen maar kan downloaden als je ook upload. Voor zo ver ik kan zien richt de stichting Brein zich echter voornamelijk op de groten zoals kazaa, grokster, etc …
Since del.icio.us started with it’s online taggable bookmarks a lot of variatons and additions came to life. Regularly checking the world wide hype has already pointed me to some very interesting sites. Here is a list of sites that track popular sites through these taggable bookmark services:
The first human search engine:
Tools that use del.icio.us:
Quick Online Tips That Work: Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection
and from virtual tags to real world tags: Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or in bathroom stalls. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers “click” on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + “@grafedia.net” to get the content behind the link.
The ‘incommunicado’ network focuses on the spread and reappropriation of ICT across the ‘Global South’. The idea of being (held) incommunicado - to be in a liminal state vis-a-vis multiple regimes of information as well as human rights - serves as point of departure for analyses, critiques, and projects beyond the standard agenda of ICT-for-Development. Currently, ‘incommunicado’ emphasizes five (research) areas: ICT for Development, WSIS, NGOs and Civil Society, ICT and Environment, and Futures of Development. In the spirit of a “research commons” and an open editorial process, you are welcome to comment and/or create your own weblog.
Last night i wrote a script which provides you with the del.icio.us tag neighbourhood of a link. Just enter a link, the script gets the rss through durl and all tags are indexed and counted. See how other people describe the given link. As a bonus you get the rss as well 
One drawback of the current script is that it only receives the top 10 people who delicioused, and assigned tags to, this link. Later on - time, I need time - i’ll have to find out how to get more results.
I thought it might be interesting to feed the outcome of my script into touchgraph. You start with a url or a tag on a topic and surf through categories (tags) and links. As pointed out in a previous post the start of a useful semantic web opens new ways to explore information.
As i was writing this post i did a technorati query for touchgraph, and what pops out as the top result?
Visualising the collective brain.
Delicious fed into touchgraph, and at the bottom
the touchgraph life journal browser
which actually won the technorati developers contest lately.
Finally, exploring information has become a journey where you decide what you want to learn (don’t forget wikipedia). Let’s see what the future has got in mind 
I was surfing http://www.technorati.com/tag/ lately, querying philosphy and what did i get back? Well, have a look. I really like the rise of searching through user defined tags together with providing it in rss. Rss makes it very flexible data to play with.
Got 2 try out furl some day. Apparently it
… opens up a new window with the title and URL of the page you are looking at already filled in. You then have the option of adding comments to, rating, and categorizing the page.
Something like a blog and del.icio.us at the same time? We haven’t seen the end of new social software connections yet
Technorati and del.icio.us remember me of the lifespan of bittorrent. As soon as something is hyped out other links will be at the top of the search results. Good to find current information about tags (topics?, issues?). How will it do on old but relevant information? What will the effect of massive amounts of users be? Won’t there be to much noise?
They have tags at Technorati now. Explanation about tags here. Also see JoHo.
Firefox plugin for Technorati search from ratherbiased.com.
Ohh, and Firefox is on the cover of this month’s Wired mag. Check the article. I particularly like this image from the article. And firefox lead developer Ben Goodger has moved on to Google. Finally, firefox blasts through the 20,000,000 barrier!
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