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>the personal blog of david n wallace
[aka Dave the Lifekludger]

I have been using delicious to tag certain web sites and articles that I think are interesting for ConnectingUp 2006 conference with the cu06 tag. I was hoping that over on technorati.com that it would pick up on the cu06 tag and display it in the page showing my delicious bookmarks, or in fact any delicious bookmarks from anybody that were tagged using the cu06 tag.

However it seems its not to be. Technorati does not seem to look at delicious at all. It looks at flicker and picks up tags from there but not delicious.

gada.be does a good job at bringing together tags from multiple sites, but from what I can see it seems that it doesn’t pick up delicious tags either.

What is going on? I cannot see any reason why these tag searching and aggregating sites are not including delicious tags. From what I can see there’s nothing in the delicious API that should prevent it, but I’m certainly no expert on these things either.

I’m not sure exactly what pubsub is up to in terms of their information sources. Feedster seems to find delicious bookmarks, but I’m not sure it looks at tags rather than just crawling terms and searching those – which is not the point – it’s the cross-pollination of sites with tags I’m concerned with.

The concept is meant to be ‘small pieces loosely joined‘ not ‘small pieces in separate piles‘. The focus needs to be on openness and cross platform integration and avoid slipping back into the safety of well-learned habits from years past of building portal empires – albeit using today’s tools.

All I can say is from a users point of view it seems like there is some ‘lovers tiffs’ with delicious.

So it looks as though I’ll have to try a couple of things to work around the issues and get the outcome I’d like to see.

[tags]Technorati, delicious, gada.be, feedster, pubsub, cu06, tags, web2.0, del.icio.us[/tags]