SpicyLinks and del.icio.us Network Summarization
Every time I see Gabe Rivera of TechMeme, I ask for the same thing — MeMeme. Give me TechMeme where the core index is based on who I read, about 150 people at any given time, to show me what my friends are interested in.
Funnily eough, that is exactly why I wrote SpicyLinks!
It works pretty well — in fact, nowadays I don’t really bother reading slashdot, Digg, Reddit, et al, particularly frequently, because I know that all the really interesting stuff will be at the top of my newsreader in the SpicyLinks feed.
Anyway, I’ve been calling SpicyLinks a ’summarizing aggregator’, but the discussion that arose from Ross’ posting inspired me. A little bit of hacking has come up with an interesting twist: take a del.icio.us social network, a CGI script called deliciousnetwork2opml.cgi, and 15 minutes hacking on SpicyLinks to support inclusion of OPML via a remote URI, and hey presto — it’s now a social-network summarising aggregator. ;)
Tags: aggregation, delicious, hacks, link-blogs, rss, social-networking, software, spicylinks
Damien Mulley said,
September 6, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
Nice nice nice but is this not the same as the RSS feed that delicious gives you for your network?
Justin said,
September 6, 2006 @ 6:50 pm
Nah — while that displays every item, this outputs RSS for multiple levels; so you can choose to only see URLs that are linked to by 2 or more people, 4 or more, etc….
Damien Mulley said,
September 6, 2006 @ 9:27 pm
Ooooh. I think I get it now. That’s quite clever. A noise filter in a way?
Justin said,
September 6, 2006 @ 9:42 pm
yep, that’s it — it filters out the once-off links, leaving just the stuff that multiple people thought were interesting…
ian holsman said,
September 7, 2006 @ 2:27 am
sweet.. cool idea.
James Corbett said,
September 7, 2006 @ 11:19 am
Extremely cool Justin. I must find out if I can run perl scripts on my TypePad pro account……. I really need to run this ….