INTRODUCTION
I am a big fan of del.icio.us since the time I figured out how to use it. at first it was a kind of weird though, because I had no idea what tagging meant, then with time I became comfortable and all that.

I am not going to bother writing another essay about how great a social software tool it is once more, but I want to concentrate on how I am using it and how I can use it better with the new tools that we have in our hands this semester. I have two points here to show you about my user habits using it.

The biggest thing between me and del.icio.us is I am just bookmarking all my links on my repository (http://del.icio.us/ilteris/) I have been a bookmark person on my whole life (god doesn't have an idea what I mean by that). I effectively use it and forget the links I have collected as my reward all the time. Del.icio.us is not an exception here. More than not, I am scared to save my links because I know it would give me that content feeling of saving/keeping it and I would totally forget to look at it later. I know I can go back later and try to search for the link on my del.icio.us page, but first I need to remember what word I did tag it and second if you start tagging too much, it makes you dizzy.

So my approach for the A2Z midterm is to build an affective search tool for delicious at this point. For me the wonderful scenario would be searching the keywords not only on the del.iciou.us page but also on the pages that have already been tagged. Having said that, let me give you an example:
I am trying to remember a site I did tagged last week while surfing on the web. It was about using matrices in opengl and giving me good methods for building it. So if I weren't a good tagger and didn't tag this with opengl (which seems I am a bad tagger since I am still learning new ways of tagging) it would be my best bet to search through every link that I tagged to find out what link it is.

What if I built a tool which grabs my links from del.icio.us and put them in a linkedlist and search the keyword at those pages. Now that would be great. I have this big advantage of already having my links as a database on my del.icio.us page so it wouldn't be an overwhelming process too(we will see).

So building a search tool on top of del.icio.us is one idea, I don't see why it couldn't be extended. We can use it to find new users with similar interests with us, we can use it to get popular links that is floating around and reveal hidden communities probably who are even not aware of each other or we can just leave people alone. But that's another subject of discussion.

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