Tag Archives: delicious

Tags do work (for me, at least)

For the “too long; didn’t read” crowd: I’ve been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me. Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns, whereas Flickr presents no particular bias toward collecting tags from users. Since title and description attract more [...]

Improving my Delicious command for Ubiquity

After writing up my first stab at a Delicious command for Ubiquity, I planned to continue revising it based on feedback and to work on exploring more of what Ubiquity enables. I started looking into writing my own nouns for tag suggestions, as well as playing with page load and browser startup hooks. [...]

Writing a Delicious command for Ubiquity

In my last post, I got all fluffy about how cool Ubiquity is but didn’t share any code to prove the point. As it happens, I have come up with at least one useful command that I’m starting to use habitually in posting bookmarks to Delicious. You can subscribe to my command or [...]

Delicious 2.0 is more than a pretty new face

I’m no longer at Yahoo! and I no longer work on Delicious, but I’m still a huge supporter. And, since I’m pretty sure everyone over there is either burnt out or still insanely busy at the moment, it might be awhile before anyone tells the full story of what this relaunch offers. As [...]

delicious 2.0 legacy bookmarklet fix

As you’ve probably seen by now, Delicious 2.0 has launched. It’s an all new design and the whole thing has been rewritten from the ground up. Most of the gripes I’ve seem like general dislike of change—which actually attests to the gargantuan effort put forth to reimplement the original from scratch in a [...]

date-based pagination

Here’s a small idea I’ve not yet had the chance to try out on a large scale: Time-based pagination in lieu of page-number-based pagination for personal content – ie. blogs, bookmarks, status updates, etc. (You know, User Generated Content except I dislike the term.) Page numbers change over time, while time-based URLs are stable. [...]

Queue everything and delight everyone

This is a blog post I’ve had simmering in my brainmeats for well over a year or two. I’m suddenly inspired to break blog-radio-silence and get it out of my head. From Let the microblogs bloom – RussellBeattie.com: Once this is widely accepted (and I’m sure there are many that would argue with me), the thing [...]

wow, eve, and delicious

Come see me try to write big words on my new blog about what I hope is not a new MMORPG addiction, while I work through the aftermath of this thing having been hacked.