The social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us) has finally gotten a nice upgrade. Unfortunately, upgrades often lead to things breaking. Thus has been the case with the post-to-blog feature that automatically posted links I bookmarked during the day to this blog. Bummer as I *really* liked that feature. I’m hoping Delicious customer service can help.
In the meantime, I thought I’d post – although this time manually, which is proving pretty tedious – the links I’ve bookmarked over the past week. Enjoy, and as always, if you see a site out there that you think I might like, please send it along.
- Barack Roll – in the spirit of Rickrolling
- Poll Everywhere – live polling using SMS (USA)
- Downloadr – for downloading multiple Flickr images in a batch
- SNS visitor stats from Feb 2008
- Unleashing The Power Of Social Networking – (Forbes) write-up of Supernova 2008 panels (including the one I was on, although they misquote a statistic I mentioned)
- Wakerupper – “free wakeup calls and telephone reminders”
- How the Google generation thinks differently (Times)
Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web - What do Cook County, city of Chicago and Illinois state employees get paid? (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Tweet 4 Missing Kids – Use Twitter to help locate missing children – can something like this work?
- Mac OS market share
- Flux – a game with bubbles (took me about five levels to figure out what was going on:-})
- Mixin – site to help coordinate social activities with friends
- Monitter – follow tweets on certain keywords in real
- ToAnswer – Q&A service integrated with Twitter
Try “editing and saving” the settings for the automatic posting without changing anything. Strangely, that one worked for me. (But for whatever reason, the posting is now made at a different time…)
[...] Just a technical note on this: When del.icio.us updated its service, the automatic daily posting of links was broken (I wasn’t alone here: Eszter Hargittai suffered the same problem). [...]
Thanks, Jacob. I tried that the day before going ahead and posting this batch. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to make any difference.:(
A little update. There is a discussion about the api hiccups here:
http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=359&page=1#Item_0
This has been suggested as a workaround. Haven’t tried it, so I definitively wouldn’t guarantee anything:
http://deliciousblogrescue.mozdev.org/
Re Social networks traffic:
1) That’s US user only traffic I think
2) It puts MySpace still well ahead of Facebook? I thought Facebook overtook MySpace last year?