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October 20, 2006

IT Blog #4

Delicious Tip #1

Over the past few weeks, Bret, Li, and I have each looked into seperate information technology news stories. This week, instead of looking at simply another entry, we thought it would be productive to go through an interesting and fun way to uncover breaking news stories (IT and not-IT related) within delicious.

One thing we all found to be incredibly cool and fun to play with was an "unofficial" Delicious visualization tool called:

Del.icio.us network explorer (click to link).

Essentially what this tool does is visually shows your available delicious network connections. You are then able to explore through the network and see how your network is connected.

For example, if I wanted to find a tag of someone who is in both my BIT professor's and my delicious network, I could use the network explorer to find an individual who is connected to both of us. From there I could click on the person's bubble, and select "visit at delicious.com" at the top of the screen. This would take me to that individual's delicious screen, and thus I can search through their links. This tool could be very effective if you do not know the name of other individuals you are looking for, or are trying to keep your links within a certain group of people.

There are, however, negatives to this network as well. It is very limited in the information immediately available. It would also take a large base of people within your network for this to work to its full extent. It also requires java to be able to run effectively.

Stay tuned for another helpful internet searching tip in the upcoming weeks

For more "neat unofficial tools" on Delicious, visit the website at http://del.icio.us/help/thirdpartytools

Posted by grantrob at October 20, 2006 03:47 PM

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