Nimbupani Designs

Quick Links Feed

After reading Andy Budd I was all the more tempted to try del.icio.us. So I registered and created an account. I then poked around a bit to find out how I can post the del.icio.us links to my website. Found an awesome article by Jeff Veen, and voila! my quick links section was up in two minutes. Check out the Quick Links on my sidebar. Finally, the tired and weary travellers to my website can take heart in seeing some thing new everytime (unlike my present state of “here-now-gone-in-two-seconds”).

[I know I know, my website is badly, badly in need of a redesign, what with such a cluttered interface and what not. “Soon” is all I can promise as of now.]

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Here is another way of doing this:

http://dionidium.com/2004/02/del.icio.us-0.2

Prashant
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Chugs,

thats precisely what I am using to display my links :)

Deepak,

I do use those dots which you can see on my del.icio.us. But I want to organize it without redundant tags- like i use design and web.design as a parent and child. So when i click on design i get all the links in the design tag. But i dont want to see the links I want to see all the sub tags.

divya
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i might not know the head or tail of what del.icio.us does and how u plan to use it but that shouldn’t stop me from offering advice :) If you can add multiple free form tags to links as Prashant says, why don’t u wrap your ‘parent-child-sibling’ tree around those tags? like design.accessibility fetches links tagged with design, accessibility and software.web.css gets links tagged with software, web and css…

looks like a best of both worlds solution to me.

deepak
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u can use RSS Digest to parse the feed -
http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/index.html

though it seems to be down at the moment.

chugs
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yup the parent-child, when used strictly restricts. But I dont want to use it that narrowly. I want to use it like flexibly. Have multiple parents, have multiple relatives /siblings :) so that way I can categories some as sub categories also and also as main categories. So i can have a link in software.web.css and design.accessibility

divya
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I just use as many keywords I can to describe the link as I can. When you click on any keyword on the sidebar on the delicious website, a list of related tags show up. I think that is better than sub-tags.

It allows you to have multiple tags and without the parent-child notation, any tag can be ralated to any other tag.

The parent-child model restricts you in number of ways, in that it doesn’t allow a child to have multiple parents.

how u parse the RSS feed?
I use a plugin in Wordpress that does the parsing.

Prashant
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aha.. thanks for the link.. hmm i wonder how u parse the RSS feed?

Yeah the tags are cool. But I wanted some tags that can be “sub-tags” like I have “software” and i can put photoshop under software and also under the “design”. So basically something like a branched tree with several levels.

er.. as i said.. the website sucks big time :)

divya
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Here are my del.icio.us links.

I use the RSS feed that del.icio.us generates to power the linklog on my sidebar.

Playing around with the tags is pretty nifty, especially when you subscribe to different tags and watch all the deli.icio.us links coming in.

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Prashant
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