One of the most popular visualization tools in social media is Digg Spy, which lets you watch as stories get dugg on Digg, constantly scrolling the latest links as they are submitted to or voted on the site. Now Ajaxonomy has created a similar page for bookmarking site Delicious, called del.icio.us Spy.
It shows new sites as they are submitted to Delicious, along with a thumbnail of the homepage and a link. You are supposed to be able to filter the results by keyword and get notifications as well, although it wasn’t immediately apparent to me whether that functionality was working. It’s a nice hack that lets you watch the world bookmark the Web as it is happening. But Ajaxonomy needs to work on the filtering more to make it truly useful.
(Read more on the Ajaxonomy blog).
Nice program, would be nice if it had a ‘pause’ button.
– also if the filter ‘go’ button said ‘go’ and was on the right.
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The filter functions weird (interesting?) You just write the word and without any buttons will let in just things related. You erase it and goes again showing everything.
delicious is one of social bookmarking more important and each modification that does to this site will be very useful.
I don’t think this is useful in anyway. I like the idea, but needs more improvement.
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That gradient is so strong it hurts. They should tone it down a few notches or just make it a flat color.
I guess it’s more convenient than refreshing http://del.icio.us/popular manually, but del.icio.us is far too busy for it to be very useful. Trendalicious (http://glozer.net/trendy/) does a better job by ranking links by popularity, limited to the top 100.
I like this ajax script, nice work. Require improvement
In general, I think everybody who’s been online for 10 years or more remembers the “excite spy” and the other similar search engine tools that showed you what other people search for in real time. I think as a concept it’s enduring and engaging and the digg ones especially have gone to the extreme side of innovation in this space. My guess is we are all inspired by the excite (rest in peace) one.
We have a spy too on our site:
http://www.funadvice.com/spy
Though it lacks any filters or features, and we are showing only logged in user views (because the load would be increased by 10x if we showed all user actions, logged in & out).
As our photos have grown, I keep wondering if being able to break out the spy into sections, or using a combinatorial layout would be more interesting for people – eg, showing profiles, photos, and questions scroll by as they were viewed on the site.
good job, but…
tools that just spit out data are pretty much useless. How are you suppose to use this tool for anything productive?
I’m much more interested in tools that consolidate information and make it easier to digest.
Very cool idea, but honestly it’s kind of hard to watch for more than a few seconds. Maybe it should only refresh every minute?
I think as a concept it’s enduring and engaging and the digg ones especially have gone to the extreme side of innovation in this space.
Pretty cool concept.
Great idea.. i was waiting for somebody to come up with this.
interesting concept. but i think there’s one which is simpler in terms of interface : http://search.myaboo.com/