Good morning,
hope all are well.
Today I added new lists to this web directory chaos – detailed views on the most popular web pages saved on delicious, aggregated by 4 hours, day, week month etc.
Hope you like it
Good morning,
hope all are happy out there.
Today I added a date filter feature to wectar relaticious which allows the user to limit the results of a wectar relaticious search to web pages which have been popular on delicious at least once after the specified day. Being popular on delicious here refers to being listed among the popular bookmarks listed on the front page of delicious.
As all the feature I added to wectar in the last months mainly something I wanted to have for my personal usage of wectar relaticious. Hopefully some other users find it useful too.
Cheers
martin
Good morning,
hope all are well.
While this project is not really looked after at the moment I today felt inspired to add a new feature to it. The idea is a change of the pool of websites from within which related web sites are found. With wectar relaticious it is now possible to find related web sites to a given one from within the set of (previously) popular web sites on delcious.com. You can explore this new feature by either using the new search field on the start page or by using the newly added “wectar relaticious” bookmarklet which you can find on the tools page. In addition there is now a relaticious link in the top menu.
Since sites with software development related content are quite common within the pool of popular sites on delcious.com this new feature works particular well for web sites from this domain. And actually I implemented relaticious mainly for that purpose. As an example here the link to the relaticious web sites of ajaxian.com:
relaticious web sites for ajaxian.com
Yet surely others fields of interest are not at all excluded …
relaticious web sites for last.fm
Enjoy
martin
We just discovered a bug within our wectarian gems for delicious user feature. With the new bug fix it is now possible to click through further pages containing the gems.
Still surprised that this feature remains basically undiscovered so far. On the other side the very fact that we found this bug around three month after we published the feature seems to indicate that we are not using it either …
Happy new (chinese) year by the way
martin
While sort of content with wectar as it is right now we surfed on the twitter wave the last three days and implemented twopular. Not sure where this will end up yet we already really like this little colored arrows.
A new feature has manifested on our server. This enhancement of our wectar engine gives our user the possibility to filter a list of related web sites by selecting preferred delicious top tags.
The filtering can be customized when a list of related web sites is displayed by
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selecting some tags from the given set of delicious top tags
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choosing if web sites sharing all selected top tags should be found or web sites which have at least one of the selected top tags
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repeating the search
While it seems to be a pretty forward feature to have we had to come across the fabulous website inSugggest to get the idea. Not much to say about inSugggest – except not using dmoz they do pretty similar stuff than we are involved with here and they do it amazingly good. Congrats from our side, big inspiration. Don’t miss to check it out!
Today we launched an enhancement of our wectar engine through which we are able to relate a given delicious username to wectar categories and wectar listed web pages. This new feature can be found under
wectar.com/gems
Today we stumbled over an interesting presentation from the Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008). The presentation entitled
Reasonable tag-based collaborative filtering for social tagging systems
covers in a sophisticated way what we are also interested in here, the benefits arising from the combination of collaborative filtering (dmoz for us) and social tagging systems (delicious for us).
The presentation can be downloaded through http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow2/pr/wicow1-3_nakamoto.pdf (pdf, 5.3MB), the workshop summary can be seen at http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow2/
Since we are with wectar neither actively involved in the tagging process nor in the collaborative filtering we can’t claim to work directly on what is covered in this presentation of course. Nevertheless we feel once more encouraged in our efforts around combining the available data from delicious and dmoz.
Inspiring …
Today we launched an enhancement of the wectar engine which enables us to make web site suggestions for categories within the open directory project. All web sites listed in wectar and its category structure is based upon the information provided by this project.
The logic behind this new feature is similar to the way we find related web sites and depends on the delicious tags of the web sites in a category. If enough delicious tag information are available you will find the following link on the respective category web page.
By clicking on this link you will see a list of web sites suggested for this category by the wectar engine. All suggested web sites are from the pool of previously most popular web sites on delicious.com we have collected.
The results of this heuristic experiment are pretty mixed, so please expect many strange, some funny and rare lucky punches among them. Nevertheless this feature might reveal web sites to you which are of interested anyway even so not necessarily fitting into the category they are suggested for. In addition we hope that this feature is of some interested for the editors of the open directory project on the search for relevant web sites for the categories they are moderating.
Please be aware that there might be two reasons why the suggestion link is not showing up:
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There are not enough delicious tag information available.
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The respective category page is viewed in wectar for the first time. In this case we are just learning about the delicious tags of the web sites in this category. When the category page is viewed a second time (through page reload for example) the link should be available.
Our delicious most popular bookmarks aggregations are now also available on individual pages for users interested in a particular aggregation.
