I just realized that there’s a link to cloudalicio.us from the 3rd party tools page at delicious. No telling how long it’s been there, perhaps a year…

http://delicious.com/help/thirdpartytools

Welcome, all tens of visitors! I promise, this site is still kicking – and should get some polish once I get this lit review completed… Silly PhD…

So, del.icio.us has relaunched themselves today as delicious.com and with it, their new design.

It’s quite remarkable what they’ve done with the new layout and UI – and I applaud them for the deep understanding of the ways people have used their service and continue to bookmark, network, and republish their content.

However, they’ve killed Cloudalicio.us again – alas.

If anyone has knowledge of how to get at the full historical data for a particular URL – please let me know. The parser is easy enough to tweak – but without the right data, the show cannot go on. I’ve found the manual paging option, but… that’s not quite enough for a live mashup…

Bah.

Cloudalicious has been moved to a new IP – if you’re seeing this, all is right with the world.

This new IP is the effect of moving Cloudalicious to a Solaris 11 Container at TextDrive.

Sooo very speedy.

In addition, having again looked at this code after it lay dormant for 8 months, I see a couple things to tweak – so expect some small changes in the next few days. Although they may not be as exciting as this newfound speed…

Thanks to Jason for helping it go down smooth.

In preparing slides for my talk earlier today (770kb pdf), I was grabbing some screenshots from del.icio.us and rummaging through some of my old Cloudalicio.us graphs from before we went offline in March.

In clicking around at del.icio.us, I realized that the /url history pages are making available (again) the full post history of the users who have bookmarked that URL.

Before the shutdown in March, the /url history pages were displaying full historical posting data, providing the three entities that make up folksonomy (person, item, tags) as well as the date on which the tagging occurred. Cloudalicio.us would grab that data, parse it, and then display a graph allowing the visitor to see how the del.icio.us-using-public’s opinion of that page had changed over time.

Today, I realized that the full folksonomy data was again available (person, item, tags) but the date data is now compressed into postings by month. And that’s okay – it’s actually less points to graph, so the graphs should generate a little more quickly now. Additionally, I’ve set the cache to 15 days instead of 1 day as daily updates wouldn’t look that different on these new graphs anyways.

So, Behold, we’re back! Everybody say “Welcome back, Cloudy”!

Oh, and I’ve updated the greasemonkey script (v3) as well.

I am sad to report today that del.icio.us has changed the format and content of its /url information. This has rendered Cloudalicious largely inoperable as the historical posting data for a particular URL is no longer available.

I am hoping the value of Cloudalicious is large enough that either an agreement can be worked out with del.icio.us/Yahoo! to access the datafeed or Cloudalicious will need to find another source of tagging data. Any ideas?

Off to SXSW this morning. Perhaps I’ll see some of you there.

del.icio.us changed the /url pages again today.

parser has been updated and should function normally.

Date Zooming has been added.

You can now zoom in on a section of a particularly interesting graph. This should alleviate some of the forward-moving pressure whereby older/established sites will eventually become boring and flat.

One nice effect is the ability to go ‘back’ in time to more precisely determine where and when a site has ‘leveled out’ and become ‘mature’. Over time, I would expect some statistics to begin to fall out concerning how many taggers are required before a site’s Tag Cloud matures.

Some of this, of course, is determined by the community doing the tagging. But over time, as more of a cross-section of society is using these tools, the true averages will begin to show themselves.

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’

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.