In a rather short news article del.icio.us informed everyone that it turned two years old now. Congratulations to the crew and all involved for an excellent idea and service. I hope that things will get more stable with time and that more people will discover the beauty of tagged web as both of these make life so much easier and so much fun.
Happy birthday!
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While playing around with del.icio.us I thought about how useful it would be to have a calendar which could operate with tags. This way, a jazz festival in Cyprus that is going to happen in Cyprus during 16-18 of September this year, for example, could have been tagged as “jazz”, “festivals”, “events”, “music”, “cyprus” as well as “16sep2005″, “17sep2005″, “18sep2005″. And maybe even as “year2005″ and “september”.
It is easy to find some format to express dates and times - there is no question about that. After that is done, the set of events can be represented in a variety of forms. The usual calendar table could be filled using the date format. The list of events for a certain month or year could be combined. Or it could even be categorised based on tags.
It would be possible to make queries like “Show me the list of music events that are planned for September 2005 in Cyprus” or “Show me the list of Cyprus festivals”. These could be easily used together with the usual calendaring stuff like “What is planned for September?”.
If there was some calendaring application that could work with del.icio.us it would awesome! Just think of the possibilities! A combined calendar of events with geographic locations and links to website for more information maintained by a bunch of interested people. And since del.icio.us provides RSS feeds for everything, it would be really easy to update and monitor such a calendar. That would be partially competing with the service provided by Airset. Purhaps there are even some commercial applications that could be based on this service.
Now all we need is for someone to create it…
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Visual arts in general and photography in particular are the main themes for today’s set of links. By the way, these links are actually from August 19th. I haven’t bookmarked any links today and del.icio.us API was a bit malfunctioning during the last few days, so I could post my link dumps. I am going to fix that by posting them now.
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For today you’ll get only a couple of Cyprus bookmarks.
These were shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-08-11
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Today’s main theme is photography. There are all sorts of sites related to photography online: reviews, articles, photoblogs, political statements, events coverage, personal and group photoalbums.
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