You know, maybe because my father has been a journalist for so many years I have always been raised to appreciate the complexity of life. And yet I still can’t understand why do we need all this complex machinery.
I totally agree on the importance of the semantic web. And, boy, am I thrilled on the possibility that we might be generating the the internet operating system. I am also aware of the cutting edge problem of who owns your data.
But what I just can’t get is why do we need to make things that can actually be quite simple, into this amazing complexity. I might not be getting the whole picture, and I admit ignorance, above stupidity. But still, why do we need to build this whole house all at once? Example del.icio.us has been amazing, and trivial at the same time. And amazing also because it was so trivial.
Now let’s expand the concept:
Instead of storing one single link let’s store two links, and a set of tags in the middle. Two links with their two titles and maybe their two descriptions. And one set of tags between them.
And people will naturally start using interesting tags.
Like:
‘explains’, ‘terrorises’, ‘defines’, ‘is’, ‘IsTerrorisedBy’, ‘embedds’, ‘uses’, …
It will also be fun.
And then get a page for all the links that uses a certain URI as it’s first link(…/subj/…), and another for those that uses another as their second URI (…/obj/…).
Then you can use delicious to store those pages.
The bookmarks manager was del.icio.us? I can assure you that this will be at least org.asm.ic! And it will not cost the programmer more than 200 lines of code. LAMP, PHP, MySQL, keep it simple. And we will all use it.
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It seems like this would be trivial with the existing del.icio.us interface. One could simply enhance the link addition form to include two sets of links, descriptions, and extended description, but only one tags field. Now, the major difference comes into play here, in addition to the existing tags two new tags is added: orgasmic_UID. (The UID could be an integer or some other form of identification – maybe timestamp + user id? If that was the case, the entirity of this script could be implemented in Javascript.) and another orgasmic, for easy searching. So, the submission process would look something like this:
http://del.icio.us/api/posts/add?url=URL1&description=DESC1&extended=EXT1&dt=TIME&tags=TAGS+orgasmic_UID+orgasmic
http://del.icio.us/api/posts/add?url=URL2&description=DESC2&extended=EXT2&dt=TIME&tags=TAGS+orgasmic_UID+orgasmic
Now, using the interface to make some searches:
http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?tag=orgasmic
This search will give you a listing of all your orgasmic links, all that’s left to do is to devise some interface to link two found items together and display for your benefit. I hope this will help to put someone on the right track!
More than del.icio.us: org.asm.ic
P.S.: � More than del.icio.us: org.asm.ic – or social RDF graph building? Instead of storing one single link let’s store two links, and a set of tags in the middle. Two links with their two titles and maybe their two…
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