Made a small parsing change today.

del.icio.us /url/ pages changed from having the date_added listed for each entry to grouping the entries under a single date_added.

Edit: 6/27 – del.icio.us changed again slightly – ‘theday’ -> ‘date’

So, two is a trend, right?

Flickr: Photos tagged with cloudalicious

The second was Nicolas Hoizey.

More discussion generated by pretty pictures. This is kind of fun.

• Andy Baio’s Waxy.org Links – June 3, 2005 – Sixth from the top.
• Two cultures of fauxonomies collide… – Tom Coates thinks there might be three reasons Tag Clouds change. The site content changes, the vocabulary concerning the content changes, or a sense of group interactions and self-awareness change the way tags are used.
• Ross Mayfield’s Flickr Photostream – A Flickr Tag Cloud Graph

del.icio.us moved servers this afternoon and updated their code at the same time.

The parser has been tweaked and caching is now set at 24 hours. If you graph the same site as anyone else in the past 24 hours, there should be no call (and no waiting) on del.icio.us. Any delay is due to graphing lots and lots of little points.

The regular expressions got a boost. Entering only ‘domain.tld’ in the box above will now work as expected. Note that graphs with and without the ‘www’ will be different.

The greasemonkey script was also updated to parse correctly. It is now at version 2.

As I come up with them, I’ll add more stats about the graph to the lower right.

For now, Tags/Author and Total Authors.

Behold… http://cloudalicio.us

I’ve moved the site to this new domain – to make it more memorable, as well as more long-URL friendly (it’s shorter).

All existing incoming links should still work. If this is not the case, please let me know.

The Bookmarklet and Greasemonkey scripts have been updated as well.

So, having asked for suggestions, I’ve now got plenty for the next few days.

Pietro has a whole list (thanks, I think).

I’ve removed the WordPress dependency for drawing graphs. The only excuse for that was speed of site launch.

The data and graphs are currently being cached for 12 hours (update: 24 hours now). I’m still messing with the caching logic (update: done) and might need to change a few things if/when the date based zooming works.

The ToDo list now has comments enabled. Be nice.

The possibility of graphs based on the (number of tags / author) is interesting and I’ll try to think through getting the x-axis to reflect authors instead of dates. It will allow for more granular analysis for sites that don’t yet have a lot of tags.

Having a log scale for the y-axis at this point does more damage than good for being able to see the trends. The characteristic “cultural changes” are much less pronounced (the diagonals aren’t as strong) and the rest of the data begins to take over the aesthetic. Maybe that’s not the point. Still working through this.

I do think that having a normalized y-axis would be interesting (all weights sum to 1). A side by side comparison to the current graphs might yield additional insights.

Both daily and cumulative. This gives the graphs a sense of scale and duration. Spikes in activity can now be seen in addition to “cultural shift”.