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DURL, a Search Tool for del.icio.us
Roland Piquepaille writes "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. This overview contains more comments, examples and screenshots."
omg... JINX! @12:25PM
Damnit I wish I had some mod points to mod this comment up. Very insightful and proves everything I thought about Roland. Fucking plagiariser.
The quote goes like this, "Communism works in theory but when you add the human element it fails because absolute power corrupts".
This is more proof that Capitalism is the same, it looks good on paper. Apparantly any power at all corrupts.
Seriously, what the hell ? I just don't understand it. Most of the accepted stories are for services or products, too - which just makes it worse. If you're going to get revenue somehow via Roland, fine... but why do you have to be so secretive about it ?
How is this a troll? To me it is informative and insightful, mod the fucking parent up.
Yes, but you arnt providing any content. All you are doing is copying and pasting other peoples hard work, and making money doing it!
If my article is marked as offtopic and the parent is marked as a troll, does that mean my response is actually insightful???
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
There should be a Slashdot user revolt again Roland. You suck.
Maybe you should change your name to John Katz
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
It's true.
of stumbleapon. stumbleapon.org/
Yet Roland has friends and fans, but no foes...
Foes are chosen by the guy. Your looking for freaks, people who chose Roland as a foe.
That's Fucking AMAZING! all these asshats whining but as typical with slashdot none do anything about it. Just another small piece in the puzzle that when assembled proves that the vast majority of slashot readers are really running pirated copies of Windows ME because they can't install Redhat.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Only here could the submitter of the article in question be moderated (-1, Troll).
Not that I think that's a wrong choice. The guy could at least respond to the accuasations instead of saying "Oh, poor me, the slashdotters don't understand how hard it is...!"
Hey, screw you buddy. Some of us have real jobs.
Well fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
(P.S. - You can block anonymous posting from my subnet, but I'll just find another one, you stupid SlashFucks.)
That pays the rent for a lot of decent 1 bedroom apartments. Hell, that would cover most of my mortgage. I'd love to have my mortgage paid for by an hour's worth of work.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Hey, it might not be much for you, mister multi-millionaire, but for the rest of us, some extra cash will always come in handy, especially during the Christmas season.
And i do think the guy deserves some credit for finding a way to make some money off the Internet.
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Even the 10x10 finger guy seen in Ghost in the Shell wouldn't be able to type THAT in about a minute.
Hello, mr. AC bot.
Not everyone who finds a way to make money off the Internet is deserving of praise. Just look at spammers, scammer, and makers of ad/spyware. This Roland cat isn't providing any service not already adequately met. It's not like other people are linking his blog from article submissions.
Now, there are a lot of insightful replies - all of which dropped like a stone from 3/4/5 insightful to 0/1 insightful in the space of two minutes.
Actually, virtually every comment in the thread received a -1, Offtopic, it looks like the whole thread was slapped with an editor's moderation stick.
Or am I really the only one here who think's Roland is a plagiarizing c*nt?
He's not plagiarising, as he attributes the material to somebody else. Plagiarising is when you try and pass it off as your own.
It's still scummy behaviour though, and almost certainly copyright infringement. I've seen people compare his "service" to Slashdot's - which is utter nonsense, as Slashdot articles aren't usually a blatant copy and paste from the original, but simply a one sentence summary with a link to the original.
Could it be possible that Roland *is* one of the editors, trying to make some easy cash from month to month?
How hard could it possibly be to rig that?
All I can say is that the moderation of my comment is more proof that slashdot is a legion of windows ME users... I feel like I'm in an X-Files episode.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
One point -that wasn't Roland Piquipaille replying, it was a known troll.
;)
Roland's userid is rpiquepa - you can check it's him by looking at accepted stories. (This information gleaned from the thread above
Can you say "kickback"?
I know you can! Slashdot has figured out a way to get paid from "user" submissions. If that's what it takes to survive, fine, I just wish they'd be up front about it.
Yes, agree. I would much rather not see any piquepaille tripe whatsoever, and having it as a section would be ideal.
I'll second this motion. Thanks for the constructive suggestion!
Steven N. Severinghaus