I previously
talked about using delicious for research (thankfully, under
Yahoo!, now boring-but-easy "delicious.com" instead of the insane,
but one-time hip, "del.icio.us"). Doing just that: researching (via
Delicious, in addition to Google & following blog links, etc.),
a topic, I was using this screen:
It's very useful - but... there are some missing items.
What I was trying to do: find more information.
I was using this screen to see what other users had tagged this,
and then checking out their tags. I was trying to get a sense, from
the short snippet, of whether a particular user would have more
bookmarks that would help in my research.
What would have helped: Show me:
- how many links in each tag
- how many links in the join of multiple tags (I was searching
for innovation+metrics
[or innovation+measures])
- what other tags a particular user has used (this would have to
be some sort of summarizing view)
- timeline/dates on recent activity in the various tags (answer
for me: "Did they just look for this stuff once or are they a fount
of bookmarks on this subject?")
- let me filter by language (some users speak other languages and
their bookmarks in Danish didn't help me)
- let me see if I've visited their bookmarks before (maybe this
is the "network" or "friend" part of delicious, but I want
something less formal: have I viewed their bookmarks before [and
found them useful?])
- let me see what percentage of their bookmarks overlap with mine
- let me see what percentage of their tags overlap with mine
- let me see which don't overlap
- what tags they use on their blog or Flickr (this is getting
outside of delicious I realize but, again, it's information about
that user & their interests)