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May 31, 2005

Search for tags del.icio.us

Filed under: General, tags, search

There are a few dedicated tools to search for del.icio.us tags:

Technorati tags
Tag Central
del.icio.us tag search

Some of the comments to this post demonstrated you can also use general search tools like Google and Blogdigger.

Google
allinurl: library site:del.icio.us
(only finds users who use the library tag…doesn’t show you a list of bookmarks…doesn’t work with some syntax like the underscore eg. LIS_km).

Blogdigger
site:del.icio.us subject:library
(results show a list of bookmarks with the specific tag)

Try the same search but also with the term ISBN appearing in the extended field or title field…here it is: site:del.icio.us subject:library isbn

Try multiple categories: site:del.icio.us subject:(library blogs rss)

Or you can do a plain old site search: site:del.icio.us library
(looks for the term “library” appearing in any of the del.icio.us fields - description, extended, title, url[?])

Search for a user, eg. site:del.icio.us author:johnt
(only 6 hits, hmmm…)

Found it unsual that a simple site search failed, eg. site:del.icio.us (without a search term).

Alternatively, this is the blogID for del.icio.us : blogID:27622
(not sure if this is meant to be similar to viewing the del.icio.us homepage).

I don’t think Blogdigger can handle syntax like, underscores, either.

Tagophilia for every blog entry

Filed under: blogs, tools

Going back to my post the other day on having a tool list after every blog entry..check out this awesome tool called Tagophilia.

Does anyone know how to alter this code for Wordpress?

I might post this in the Blogsome (my blog host) forum.

May 30, 2005

openSubscriber

Filed under: rss, tools

openSubscriber is a tool similar to the email subscription function in Bloglines.

As long as their is no email confirmation set-up you can submit an email list to this database, which enables you to read the email list content as an RSS feed.

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Feedcombine: another RSS mixer

Filed under: General, blogs, rss, wiki, newsmaster, tools

Feedcombine is another tool that re-mixes feeds, here is the previous list.

I think this is where a web page or wiki page would be handy in adding these tools to a list, instead of adding a new tool to an old blog post.

Adding a new RSS re-mix tool to an old blog post that lists RSS re-mix tools is wrong in a way, as the new tool may not have existed on the date stamp of the older post.

Instead of using a wiki maybe I could have a link on the sidebar of the blog that goes to a folder in my del.icio.us account where I could store RSS re-mix tools…or better still it can show the HTML version of the del.icio.us folder.

Furl: right-click

Filed under: General, tools

One of my posts listed some handy-right click tools, and I was lamenting the fact that I couldn’t find one for Furl.

Well, silly me, in your Furl page, click on the Tools tab and there it is.

Here is what is says:

“This is especially helpful when you want to save a page that appears on a site that uses frames, or when you want to save a series of links on a given page.”

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