Not quite califragilistic but still super.

January 8, 2006 12:22 PM

File under "LazyWeb 2.0": expialidocio.us. Maps your del.icio.us tagging habits over time. Not mindblowingly useful, but nifty nonetheless.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (9 comments total)

Note: from the same guys (it seems) as yesterday's link. I hope that's cool. Really though, this guy should've posted it.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:24 PM on January 8, 2006

I like the general idea of being able to browse tag clouds over time, but for me (on a mac, which generally sucks at Flash) it's slow to the point of unusable. Plus, it seems like it's oriented towards trying to show you shifts in your tagging patterns over time. If that's really the goal, then make a tool that actually does it. Let me select a tag and watch my usage frequency, or color the tags based on how frequently I've used them in the last 60 days, or something.

Also, I like extispicious (for my delicious) more. It's simple, loads quickly, and communicates basically the same idea minus the activity graph (which is cool, but poorly executed).
posted by heresiarch at 1:28 PM on January 8, 2006

I'm not giving them my del.icio.us username and password.
posted by grouse at 4:10 PM on January 8, 2006

Is del.icio.us something would have to have heard of before to understand why I would want to track my tagging habits?
posted by Balisong at 5:36 PM on January 8, 2006

Not only that, Balisong, you'd need access to a microcomputer of some sort.

grouse, here is their privacy statement, make of it what you will.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:10 PM on January 8, 2006

Nice... in Firefox, it doesn't seem to do anything once you login, and under IE it tries to download it as a file! Fun! :)
posted by antifuse at 5:56 AM on January 9, 2006

Won't load for me. I'd really like to try it out though. Well, perhaps my 5000 or so links has something to do with it.
posted by sjvilla79 at 6:10 AM on January 9, 2006

I'm behind the times, I'm still using backflip.

I wonder if this is on the radar of the copyright enforcers at Disney? Little ol' me is one thing, but a registered domain name might, um, draw their attention.
posted by expialidocious at 9:50 AM on January 9, 2006

grouse: Change your del.icio.us password to something temporary. Give it to expialidocio.us. Let it do its thing. Change your password back. :)
posted by etoile at 10:56 AM on January 10, 2006