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Field of view would be easy to conquer if you provide several simultaneous streams. That's the approach I'm investigating with stereo pairs of cameras for 3d view. The problem is that most camera makers don't follow the USB spec, so you can't plug in more than one of the same model at a time.

The exception to the rule is the Vista Imaging VICAM, which was originally made in a parallel port version, then bought by 3Com and released in a USB version as the 3Com HomeConnect Camera. It was then bought by Digi/IONetworks and released as the Watchport/V. In all of its USB incarnations, you can run several Vicams simultaneously.

According to the informative reviews I've read, Vista did a lot of things right with this camera. Despite being an old design, the image quality is still among the best you'll find. You can get accessory lens packs, to change the field of view.

Other cameras that support multiple instances are the Logitech QuickCam 4000 and the ADStech "Turbo USB 2.0 webcam". There may be more.

Now, if only I'd thought to do an Ask /. two weeks ago, someone could've done all this research for me. ;)

For all those folks comparing it to Firefox "Search web for selection", this is a very different beast. What Y!Q does is adding metadata to your query, so that only pages are listed which both

1) contain the terms you selected and
2) are related to the metadata of the original website.

I wonder what the results could be if this technology were merged with masive metadata with distributed generation.

Here's instructions on how to draw information from del.icio.us

Here's perl

Write your own interface, bitch.

You just described both dmoz and del.icio.us. And since both offer web services interfaces, you could easily create your own frontend to either.

That's exactly what http://del.icio.us/ is trying to do. Log in and give it a try, it uses a flat hiearchy for organizing bookmarks. When you add something, you stick a few labels on it, and then you can browse all your bookmarks by your labels. AND see who else bookmarked that site and what they used to label them.

"Certainly the GNOME storage idea is much like that of Google.. I'd rather type something in Google than look for a bookmark much of the time. But if I can't really remember the name, that's when things like bookmarks and hierarchical structures become usefull. "

And this is where tag-based systems, which can pretend to be both flat and heirarchical make an enormous amount of sense:
del.icio.us

can be found here

Well you're in luck! There are tags for tags and technorati/del.icio.us/flickr and Folksonomies to make them easier to learn.

Well you're in luck! There are tags for tags and technorati/del.icio.us/flickr and Folksonomies to make them easier to learn.

Well you're in luck! There are tags for tags and technorati/del.icio.us/flickr and Folksonomies to make them easier to learn.

Well you're in luck! There are tags for tags and technorati/del.icio.us/flickr and Folksonomies to make them easier to learn.

Well you're in luck! There are tags for tags and technorati/del.icio.us/flickr and Folksonomies to make them easier to learn.

Yeah, great. And every time I try to go visit it, I end up putting the dots in the wrong places, like deli.cio.us, or de.lic.io.us. And forget about trying to tell someone verbally how to find it...

"Yeah, go check out this site, it's called delicious."
"Delicious.com?"
"No, d-e-l-dot-i-c-i-o... argh, just frickin' Google it. Oh wait, it's not in Google...

The guy who started del.icio.us said that he bought the icio.us domain because it had lots of subdomain possibilities.

mal.icio.us is currently empty, but it would be cool to see something there!

The guy who started del.icio.us said that he bought the icio.us domain because it had lots of subdomain possibilities.

mal.icio.us is currently empty, but it would be cool to see something there!

Tim Bray concurrently covered a simmlar topic in Software in the TLP Era and offers some strategies to deal with the coming MultiCore chips.

Folksonomies (the first meme of 2005?) is attributed by Wikipedia to Thomas Vander Wa.

Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services - Del.icio.us and Flickr - designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags. Are these features or bugs? Consensuss says 'feature'. Andrew Ducker has a suggestion for synonyms and a modest proposal

Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?,
John Battelle links into Taggle and "federated tagging".

I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might reduce 'lazy tagging' ,and maybe synonym control when the federation appears.

New: In Beyond Laser Tag and Telephone Tag, JC Francois wonders if "2005 will be the year of tagging".

Will Folksonomies lead to the nirvana of the Semantic Web, or at least Semantic web light? (see : ftrain.com August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web)

Tag, you're still it!"

One thing I would like to see in del.icio.us is the ability to rename a tag. As it is, you have to create a new tag and then retag all your items with it.

It's kind of hidden away, but I think it's what you want; log in, go to del.icio.us/yourname and "settings" and then to "tags". Or go directly to http://del.icio.us/settings/tags while logged on.

Unfortunately, Amazon's shopping cart is painful to browse when it reaches that size. Also, Amazon distinguishes between the current cart and items "saved for later", and moving between them is also awkward. There's also no way to move an item from my UK shopping cart to the Amazon.com shopping cart, for example.

Recently, I started tagging items with del.icio.us instead of adding them to the shopping cart. Voilà -- a portable shopping cart.

Since I can get the RSS for a collection of tags, I can now easily have a bookmarklet or script that, given a tag, adds each item (based on its ISBN) to a shopping cart -- any shopping cart, not necessarily Amazon's.

Take it one step further: Have a script that looks for the cheapest stores based on the items in the RSS. This assumes the URL contains the ISBN and the script knows how to find it, but that's easy.

Since my portable shopping cart is available for all to see, it doubles as a gift wishlist. I've started a read list, too.

Unfortunately, Amazon's shopping cart is painful to browse when it reaches that size. Also, Amazon distinguishes between the current cart and items "saved for later", and moving between them is also awkward. There's also no way to move an item from my UK shopping cart to the Amazon.com shopping cart, for example.

Recently, I started tagging items with del.icio.us instead of adding them to the shopping cart. Voilà -- a portable shopping cart.

Since I can get the RSS for a collection of tags, I can now easily have a bookmarklet or script that, given a tag, adds each item (based on its ISBN) to a shopping cart -- any shopping cart, not necessarily Amazon's.

Take it one step further: Have a script that looks for the cheapest stores based on the items in the RSS. This assumes the URL contains the ISBN and the script knows how to find it, but that's easy.

Since my portable shopping cart is available for all to see, it doubles as a gift wishlist. I've started a read list, too.

Unfortunately, Amazon's shopping cart is painful to browse when it reaches that size. Also, Amazon distinguishes between the current cart and items "saved for later", and moving between them is also awkward. There's also no way to move an item from my UK shopping cart to the Amazon.com shopping cart, for example.

Recently, I started tagging items with del.icio.us instead of adding them to the shopping cart. Voilà -- a portable shopping cart.

Since I can get the RSS for a collection of tags, I can now easily have a bookmarklet or script that, given a tag, adds each item (based on its ISBN) to a shopping cart -- any shopping cart, not necessarily Amazon's.

Take it one step further: Have a script that looks for the cheapest stores based on the items in the RSS. This assumes the URL contains the ISBN and the script knows how to find it, but that's easy.

Since my portable shopping cart is available for all to see, it doubles as a gift wishlist. I've started a read list, too.

The ability to also merge tags in a search is particularly useful, such as in the case of a search for Python packages (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+packages) as opposed to Python movies (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+movies).

As the site gains more and more users, I have to wonder about the S/N ratio, although merging keywords in searches will help.

Hopefully some scumbag won't figure out a way to make his H3RB4L V14GR4 page come up no matter what keywords you enter.

The ability to also merge tags in a search is particularly useful, such as in the case of a search for Python packages (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+packages) as opposed to Python movies (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+movies).

As the site gains more and more users, I have to wonder about the S/N ratio, although merging keywords in searches will help.

Hopefully some scumbag won't figure out a way to make his H3RB4L V14GR4 page come up no matter what keywords you enter.

The ability to also merge tags in a search is particularly useful, such as in the case of a search for Python packages (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+packages) as opposed to Python movies (http://del.icio.us/tag/python+movies).

As the site gains more and more users, I have to wonder about the S/N ratio, although merging keywords in searches will help.

Hopefully some scumbag won't figure out a way to make his H3RB4L V14GR4 page come up no matter what keywords you enter.

Right now the platform documentation hasn't been compiled into a form that's accessible for external (to the Mozilla project) developers.

Now Firefox 1.0 is out, and the Mozilla / XUL runtime is speading, hopefully we'll see the Mozilla team setting up something approaching PHP's documentation (which is a big part of PHP's success as a technology for the masses). Part of that is having a supporting documentation team, willing to keep it complete and up-to-date. Spreadfirefox.com shows it's possible for Mozilla to develop that kind of community.

The other challenge is making "remote XUL" (launched from a website) a reality. Right now it equates almost to a different technology to "local XUL" such as that used in a Firefox extension, thanks to a very restrictive (and poorly documented) security model. Mozilla, so far, have opted for the script-signing approach - that fact that Amazon did not sign their A9 Firefox extension says it all...

Anyway - a good place to trawl for links is http://del.icio.us/tag/xul - otherwise it's a matter of learning XUL like you learnt HTML years ago.

Set them up with del.icio.us accounts for their bookmarks, then have a bookmark for del.icio.us in the default profile.

3) What's the gain of opening up my bookmarks file to the world? I mean, why should I care that so many other people bookmarked this or that page? How does it let me find interesting stuff easier than Google?

I started using del.icio.us recently, and I like it very much. I chose a unique username for that site, and that username is nothing like my real name. So although the bookmarks are visible to the world, they are essentially anonymous.

As far as finding neat stuff, it works well enough. Google is much better if you know what you want, but del.icio.us is good if you want to browse categories. It's similar to browsing dmoz.org, but more timely.

One nice feature is being able to browse by tag intersections. So if you want to find all links about linux go to http://del.icio.us/tag/linux. But if you want to see all links about programming in linux, you can do an intersection between linux and programming like so: http://del.icio.us/tag/linux+programming. And you can intersect more than two tags also.

I also like being able to browse my bookmarks from any computer. You don't even have to log into the site, just go to the right URL.

Unfortunately, I think del.icio.us is down now due to Slashdot :-( I'm getting 503 errors when I click the above links, so I can't test them. I think they're correct, though.

3) What's the gain of opening up my bookmarks file to the world? I mean, why should I care that so many other people bookmarked this or that page? How does it let me find interesting stuff easier than Google?

I started using del.icio.us recently, and I like it very much. I chose a unique username for that site, and that username is nothing like my real name. So although the bookmarks are visible to the world, they are essentially anonymous.

As far as finding neat stuff, it works well enough. Google is much better if you know what you want, but del.icio.us is good if you want to browse categories. It's similar to browsing dmoz.org, but more timely.

One nice feature is being able to browse by tag intersections. So if you want to find all links about linux go to http://del.icio.us/tag/linux. But if you want to see all links about programming in linux, you can do an intersection between linux and programming like so: http://del.icio.us/tag/linux+programming. And you can intersect more than two tags also.

I also like being able to browse my bookmarks from any computer. You don't even have to log into the site, just go to the right URL.

Unfortunately, I think del.icio.us is down now due to Slashdot :-( I'm getting 503 errors when I click the above links, so I can't test them. I think they're correct, though.

http://del.icio.us/tag/porn

I've been a strong advocate of the social bookmarking service named del.icio.us since it started (check here for an example). And almost every single day, a new tool appears and enhances the use of this service. This new one, DURL , written by Robin Millette , lets you type an URL and see if some other people already "delicious'ed it." And this is very efficient because it leads you to people who not only bookmarked the URL, but also assigned to it some pertinent keywords or tags, giving you new and fresh ideas. Services like Bloglines or Technorati among others certainly can return hundreds of links, so they are good for 'popularity contests.' But for building social communities and introducing you to sources you wouldn't have thought of, they don't compare to del.icio.us. Read more for lots of examples...

As I'm not sure if I convinced you, let's start with a real blog, Smart Mobs .

If I feed the URL http://www.smartmobs.com/ to Bloglines by submitting the search string "http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=http://www .smartmobs.com/&submit=Search," I receive 3358 unsorted results.

If I do the same with Technorati , I find 1,614 links from 1,234 sources, sorted by date.

In both cases, this produces a number of references which is hard to browse. Why a particular site has quoted Smart Mobs? It's not obvious to find an answer.

So, it's time to use DURL, which returns a more manageable number of 45 results from del.icio.us.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_1.jpg

Here is a screen capture of the page returned by DURL. You can see that some people are reading Smart Mobs because they associated it with the concepts of "creativity" or "ubiquitous computing". Others are using tags such as "collaboration," "mobile" or "community." (Credit: Robin Millette/del.icio.us).

Let's check for example the tag "Social Software."

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_2.jpg

It brings us to del.icio.us/hbryant/social_software . (Credit: del.icio.us). Wow! Exciting! New tools for del.icio.us! Let's visit Soooo del.icio.us people can't stand it! .

In a summary, with only two clicks, I found a gold mine. Do you know another service which is that efficient?

Now, let's return to the previous page and check the link to the "community" tag.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_3.jpg

This time, this leads us to del.icio.us/oubiwann/community . (Credit: del.icio.us). From there, I can now read a "definition of Mundialization" or discover what is the "World Government of World Citizens."

The more I use del.icio.us, the more I like it. This doesn't mean I'm not using Bloglines or Technorati, but I'm using them for 'exhaustivity,' not for 'discovery.'

[And here is an additional note for Robin Millette, the author of DURL. In fact, you can do the same search on del.icio.us by adding the string "http://del.icio.us/url?url=" (without the quotes) before the URL you want to see if it has been delicioused. But it might be too geeky for some of you.]

Source: Robin Millette, December 20, 2004; and various websites

I've been a strong advocate of the social bookmarking service named del.icio.us since it started (check here for an example). And almost every single day, a new tool appears and enhances the use of this service. This new one, DURL , written by Robin Millette , lets you type an URL and see if some other people already "delicious'ed it." And this is very efficient because it leads you to people who not only bookmarked the URL, but also assigned to it some pertinent keywords or tags, giving you new and fresh ideas. Services like Bloglines or Technorati among others certainly can return hundreds of links, so they are good for 'popularity contests.' But for building social communities and introducing you to sources you wouldn't have thought of, they don't compare to del.icio.us. Read more for lots of examples...

As I'm not sure if I convinced you, let's start with a real blog, Smart Mobs .

If I feed the URL http://www.smartmobs.com/ to Bloglines by submitting the search string "http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=http://www .smartmobs.com/&submit=Search," I receive 3358 unsorted results.

If I do the same with Technorati , I find 1,614 links from 1,234 sources, sorted by date.

In both cases, this produces a number of references which is hard to browse. Why a particular site has quoted Smart Mobs? It's not obvious to find an answer.

So, it's time to use DURL, which returns a more manageable number of 45 results from del.icio.us.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_1.jpg

Here is a screen capture of the page returned by DURL. You can see that some people are reading Smart Mobs because they associated it with the concepts of "creativity" or "ubiquitous computing". Others are using tags such as "collaboration," "mobile" or "community." (Credit: Robin Millette/del.icio.us).

Let's check for example the tag "Social Software."

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_2.jpg

It brings us to del.icio.us/hbryant/social_software . (Credit: del.icio.us). Wow! Exciting! New tools for del.icio.us! Let's visit Soooo del.icio.us people can't stand it! .

In a summary, with only two clicks, I found a gold mine. Do you know another service which is that efficient?

Now, let's return to the previous page and check the link to the "community" tag.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_3.jpg

This time, this leads us to del.icio.us/oubiwann/community . (Credit: del.icio.us). From there, I can now read a "definition of Mundialization" or discover what is the "World Government of World Citizens."

The more I use del.icio.us, the more I like it. This doesn't mean I'm not using Bloglines or Technorati, but I'm using them for 'exhaustivity,' not for 'discovery.'

[And here is an additional note for Robin Millette, the author of DURL. In fact, you can do the same search on del.icio.us by adding the string "http://del.icio.us/url?url=" (without the quotes) before the URL you want to see if it has been delicioused. But it might be too geeky for some of you.]

Source: Robin Millette, December 20, 2004; and various websites

I've been a strong advocate of the social bookmarking service named del.icio.us since it started (check here for an example). And almost every single day, a new tool appears and enhances the use of this service. This new one, DURL , written by Robin Millette , lets you type an URL and see if some other people already "delicious'ed it." And this is very efficient because it leads you to people who not only bookmarked the URL, but also assigned to it some pertinent keywords or tags, giving you new and fresh ideas. Services like Bloglines or Technorati among others certainly can return hundreds of links, so they are good for 'popularity contests.' But for building social communities and introducing you to sources you wouldn't have thought of, they don't compare to del.icio.us. Read more for lots of examples...

As I'm not sure if I convinced you, let's start with a real blog, Smart Mobs .

If I feed the URL http://www.smartmobs.com/ to Bloglines by submitting the search string "http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=http://www .smartmobs.com/&submit=Search," I receive 3358 unsorted results.

If I do the same with Technorati , I find 1,614 links from 1,234 sources, sorted by date.

In both cases, this produces a number of references which is hard to browse. Why a particular site has quoted Smart Mobs? It's not obvious to find an answer.

So, it's time to use DURL, which returns a more manageable number of 45 results from del.icio.us.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_1.jpg

Here is a screen capture of the page returned by DURL. You can see that some people are reading Smart Mobs because they associated it with the concepts of "creativity" or "ubiquitous computing". Others are using tags such as "collaboration," "mobile" or "community." (Credit: Robin Millette/del.icio.us).

Let's check for example the tag "Social Software."

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_2.jpg

It brings us to del.icio.us/hbryant/social_software . (Credit: del.icio.us). Wow! Exciting! New tools for del.icio.us! Let's visit Soooo del.icio.us people can't stand it! .

In a summary, with only two clicks, I found a gold mine. Do you know another service which is that efficient?

Now, let's return to the previous page and check the link to the "community" tag.

http://www.primidi.com/images/durl_3.jpg

This time, this leads us to del.icio.us/oubiwann/community . (Credit: del.icio.us). From there, I can now read a "definition of Mundialization" or discover what is the "World Government of World Citizens."

The more I use del.icio.us, the more I like it. This doesn't mean I'm not using Bloglines or Technorati, but I'm using them for 'exhaustivity,' not for 'discovery.'

[And here is an additional note for Robin Millette, the author of DURL. In fact, you can do the same search on del.icio.us by adding the string "http://del.icio.us/url?url=" (without the quotes) before the URL you want to see if it has been delicioused. But it might be too geeky for some of you.]

Source: Robin Millette, December 20, 2004; and various websites

Now I just need some del.icio.us bookmarks to go with that!

Example: http://del.icio.us/

I think a better bookmark managment system needs to be implemented, especially when you move from office to home to mobile. possibly network storage system to publish your bookmarks so your browser can grab them automatically?


Just use del.icio.us, and set your user page (example) as your homepage. Accessable anywhere, nothing to install, easy to manage, searchable, etc.

There are extentions to just about every browser to mirror your bookmarks, but I personally find the web interface more useful.

Some people are turned off by how everything you post to del.icio.us is public, but really, how private do most of your bookmarks need to be?

I think a better bookmark managment system needs to be implemented, especially when you move from office to home to mobile. possibly network storage system to publish your bookmarks so your browser can grab them automatically?


Just use del.icio.us, and set your user page (example) as your homepage. Accessable anywhere, nothing to install, easy to manage, searchable, etc.

There are extentions to just about every browser to mirror your bookmarks, but I personally find the web interface more useful.

Some people are turned off by how everything you post to del.icio.us is public, but really, how private do most of your bookmarks need to be?

Straight from the front page, and complete with Firefox plugin and a nice api:
del.icio.us

Laptop - Linux (Primary Work)

Laptop - Win (Primary Play)

Desktop - Win (home)
Admittedly, I have to keep my extensions in sync, but to keep data, here's what I do:

For Thunderbird

• I use only IMAPS, and keep everything on my server
• I don't use the integrated Junk Mail controls. I did for a while, but got sick of having to start from scratch with every wipe of windows/every new install; nor do I use the filters in my mail client
• I do, instead, use procmail and spamassassin to accomplish similar results. Spamassassin "learns" from INBOX.Junk.confirmed, every night. Procmail filters my list subscriptions, and I use this tip to keep Thunderbird in line.

• I don't keep any bookmarks, locally, except my live bookmarks (which, again, admittedly, I need to set up on each instance).
• Instead, I use my del.icio.us account to manage these. I then subscribe to my account's RSS as a live bookmark, and dump that into my bookmarks toolbar. This may be helpful, if you'd like to do the same.

see delicious. Don't get all hung up on the silly name, just go check it out.

Hello Most Excellent Flickr Beta Testr!

This is just a reminder to let you know that, not only do you rule, but ...

I think you missed my point: Code generators have improved so that the cost-of-change has gone down! At one time they were really only good for getting started by spitting out piles of repetitive, uninteresting code; afterwards you might tweak the generated code or have to change it for a bug fix, so you didn't want to regenerate. This is no longer entirely the case.

Check out some of the links here. Especially CodeWorker.

Mind you I am not entirely a fan of code generators myself, having been forced to use bad ones in the past. But they are good fits for certain kinds of problems, they really have improved recently and I was simply trying to answer the original question in the parent article in a meaningful way. I really do think they are going to be hot in the developer space soon. Unfortunately I expect a lot of PHBs are going to jump on the bandwagon and want us to use code generators in spaces where they aren't a good fit. For example, using a code generator in a case where a nice clean library is more suitable.

treemenu has a large variety of viewing methods. i use them for different purposes, but find it easy and friendly and fast when needed.

see also:
links
del.icio.us
bookmark4u
bkm
plasticbag discussion
and of course all the PIMs(personal information managers) in the works...

It's not hard to activate links... http://del.icio.us/> results in http://del.icio.us/. Ok, I know I'm lazy, but an extra 5 seconds in making your post makes it a better experience for all.

Thanks!

It's not hard to activate links... http://del.icio.us/> results in http://del.icio.us/. Ok, I know I'm lazy, but an extra 5 seconds in making your post makes it a better experience for all.

Thanks!

Browsing metadata is the next frontier in the evolution of the web. Some of the other RDF browsers popping up include Gnowsis, MIT Haystack, and Fenfire.

With the growth of the Internet, the value of data itself is dropping, while the value of metadata (i.e. "data about data") increases, introducing a need for tools that can manipulate metadata. That is what RDF is all about - standardizing a way to represent metadata. It is not a standard for the metadata itself...those standards will be determined the same way everything else is on the Internet: with the best solutions rising to the top.

The most common objections to this scenario?
a) "Nobody will bother entering metadata". Wrong...it's already happening. Users are voluntarily generating metadata all the time. Just check out sites like flickr (photo blogging) and del.icio.us (collaborative bookmarks), not to mention Amazon reviews and Ebay ratings.
b) "RDF tags will just be abused with spam, trolls, and other useless info". A variety of techniques are emerging that are designed to protect the integrity of user-contributed data, including trust metrics like Slashdot's own distributed moderation (PDF) or Advogato.

• Warrenellis.com
• Die Puny Humans
• Flickr
• del.icio.us

Ellis is definitely one of the coolest authors ever. You'd do well to check out his Transmetropolitan series and anything else he's written.

I like feeds of http://del.icio.us/ where anyone can submit their bookmarks and the most popular bookmarks can be seen.
There is also an extension for our favourite broowser Firefox at http://delicious.mozdev.org/

I was under the impression that other developers could add data to Quicksilver (maybe not utilize it though). I had it set up to search my del.icio.us links, iTunes and the dictionary. It looks like they have a ton of third party plugins.

That being said, it would be sweet to have access to the search API at the OS level. So even though you're rude, I'll agree with you :)

This is totally off-topic, but it is important.

del.icio.us, the place where I and a lot of other people store all of my "bookmarks" appears to be offline.

Does anyone know why it is down?

(Here's a bit of trivia: del.icio.us was created by the same guy who runs memepool.com)

Yep, lots of people already do this using del.icio.us.