Comments on: The secret origins of del.icio.us http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/02/18/the-secret-origins-of-delicious/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Barry http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/02/18/the-secret-origins-of-delicious/#comment-387 Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:02:18 +0000 http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/02/18/the-secret-origins-of-delicious/#comment-387 That's probably true. I still worry about the security hazards to the site because I like it so much. I'm sure there are many safeguards in place to prevent the site from automated assault, but it's still worrysome. del.icio.us is great, but I must say I'm a bit hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket when the basket is proprietary. It has been great to have it as a completely free service, but there is no gurantee that it will continue to be this way in the future. Unless someone protects the concept from patent by releasing it under a public license, I'll continue to worry. Hopefully, and I'm optimistic, the concept of public, shared bookmards will spread and permeate into bulletin boards, blogs, and more. It seems like a way of helping the internet learn, by building paths to better connect the nodes. It would be maddening to have a SCO jump in and claim to own the idea. That’s probably true. I still worry about the security hazards to the site because I like it so much. I’m sure there are many safeguards in place to prevent the site from automated assault, but it’s still worrysome.

del.icio.us is great, but I must say I’m a bit hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket when the basket is proprietary. It has been great to have it as a completely free service, but there is no gurantee that it will continue to be this way in the future. Unless someone protects the concept from patent by releasing it under a public license, I’ll continue to worry. Hopefully, and I’m optimistic, the concept of public, shared bookmards will spread and permeate into bulletin boards, blogs, and more. It seems like a way of helping the internet learn, by building paths to better connect the nodes. It would be maddening to have a SCO jump in and claim to own the idea.

]]> by: George Hotelling http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/02/18/the-secret-origins-of-delicious/#comment-385 Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:16:40 +0000 http://www.mullingitover.com/wpress/2005/02/18/the-secret-origins-of-delicious/#comment-385 I don't think it's security reasons that he doesn't open the source. Part of the del.icio.us magic is the fact that a network's value is the square of the number of nodes. If everyone had their own del.icio.us site then we wouldn't be able to aggregate tags, we wouldn't have a popular page and we couldn't stumble on people with great links as easily. All those things happen because everyone is on the same site. I don’t think it’s security reasons that he doesn’t open the source. Part of the del.icio.us magic is the fact that a network’s value is the square of the number of nodes.

If everyone had their own del.icio.us site then we wouldn’t be able to aggregate tags, we wouldn’t have a popular page and we couldn’t stumble on people with great links as easily. All those things happen because everyone is on the same site.

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