As I listened to Joshua talk about what it takes to create and expand an online resource such as del.icio.us, what was most striking was his unusual combination of brilliant foresight and the ability to improvise in response to unexpected uses of the tool.
A few other highlights from the Berkman Center lunch:
Joshua considers the del.icio.us NPTech tagging project to be the poster child for creating a group tagging feature.
If you want to see what the inventor of del.icio.us is bookingmarking and tagging, you can go to http://del.icio.us/joshua/.
He apparently hasn't learned yet that librarians are our friends; instead he categorized them as thinking that projects such as del.icio.us are messy and distasteful. (I was a little suprised that my buddy J Baumgart, who was also present and who is a librarian, didn't set him straight. She didn't even deploy her amazing shushing action.)
Two of the most-frequently-posted sites on del.icio.us are del.icio.us itself and Microsoft.
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lunchtime discussion was complemented by a webcast and internet relay chat, but as of
this writing I don't know whether or where they will be archived. If you want to see what the inventor of del.icio.us is bookingmarking and tagging, you can go to http://del.icio.us/joshua/.
He apparently hasn't learned yet that librarians are our friends; instead he categorized them as thinking that projects such as del.icio.us are messy and distasteful. (I was a little suprised that my buddy J Baumgart, who was also present and who is a librarian, didn't set him straight. She didn't even deploy her amazing shushing action.)
Two of the most-frequently-posted sites on del.icio.us are del.icio.us itself and Microsoft.
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