Comments on: Ajaxonomy Hacks Together del.icio.us Spy

By: Myaboo

Myaboo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:39:50 +0000

interesting concept. but i think there’s one which is simpler in terms of interface : http://search.myaboo.com/

By: Mark Poole

Mark Poole — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:03:34 +0000

Great idea.. i was waiting for somebody to come up with this.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:26:56 +0000

Pretty cool concept.

By: rubu

rubu — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:23:18 +0000

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.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:18:17 +0000

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?

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:55:20 +0000

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.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:47:51 +0000

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.

By: Vini - Send free sms

Vini - Send free sms — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:42:48 +0000

I like this ajax script, nice work. Require improvement

By: schmoe

schmoe — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:29:12 +0000

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.

By: Cain

Cain — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:28:40 +0000

That gradient is so strong it hurts. They should tone it down a few notches or just make it a flat color.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:26:40 +0000

If you want to have a “digg spy” for your own web site, it is one of the many unique features of Clicky web analytics. Click here for a demo of the Spy functionality: http://getclick.../spy?site_id=10

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:04:19 +0000

I don’t think this is useful in anyway. I like the idea, but needs more improvement.

By: CanCar

CanCar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:35:52 +0000

delicious is one of social bookmarking more important and each modification that does to this site will be very useful.

By: zapo

zapo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:33:48 +0000

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.

By: .rb

.rb — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:07:54 +0000

Nice program, would be nice if it had a ‘pause’ button.

– also if the filter ‘go’ button said ‘go’ and was on the right.