Hacking del.icio.us (ExtremeTech)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 356 pages
• Published by: Wiley July 12, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470037857
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470037850
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description

• Share the wealth–del.icio.us is a publicly viewable bookmarks manager that allows users to easily add favorite sites to a personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords (tags), and to share a collection not only between browsers and machines, but also with others
• It really is delish! del.icio.us is an great tool for tracking Web popularity, hot topics (or memes), and can provide RSS feeds for any tag
• Adventurous readers with some basic Web design and scripting or programming skills will sink their teeth into these tasty treats on tweaking, modifying, and hacking del.icio.us
• Hacks include: geotagging del.icio.us bookmarks, mapping del.icio.us tags with Google Maps, building and watching tag clouds over time, and integrating bloglines and del.icio.us
• Some additional unique projects are del.icio.us tagging using browser keywords, combining del.icio.us and blogs, programming with the del.icio.us API, and hacking Firefox and Safari

About The Author
Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Detroit area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding girl. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his Web site named 0xDECAFBAD (http://decafbad.com/).