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What do they think of me?

posted 04:15PM Oct 18, 2007 with tags bookmarks delicious statistics tags by Lars Trieloff

I am using del.icio.us extensively. Not only for keeping my own bookmarks, also for discovering new links (by following my network) and of course, using the for:trieloff tag in del.icio.us is the way I prefer to get informed about interesting links.

When watching some of the links I get send using this method, I ask my self: "What do they (my friends, family and co-workers) think of me?". What do they think is interesting for me and worth tagging a for:trieloff?

In order to answer this question, I wrote a small ruby script that scrapes my personal del.icio.us link inbox, searches for tags and ranks them according to their popularity. This is the tag cloud the program came up with:

2.0 ajax amazon apple application architecture article b3mn blog browser business code collaboration collaborative_software communication competition competitors cool css design development ecommerce-software entrepeneurship entrepreneurship framework fun funny gk-intern google howto html http humor iphone java javascript job jobs mac management market marketing office online opensource osx pr programming reference rest ruby rubyonrails search social socialsoftware software startup tips tool tools tutorial usability vc video web web2.0 webdesign webdev wiki xml

If you compare this to my own tag cloud of things I blog or bookmark, you will find a big overlap. It looks like they know me quite well.

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