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link stalking with del.icio.us and Yahoo Pipes

In web on 19 May 2007 with 1 comment

I’ve always preferred del.icio.us over digg. Call me elitest, but I’m not really interested in what the throngs are “digging”. I do, however, like to dig thru the links of bloggers I like to read. It’s kind of like flipping thru the record collections of friends of friends: “Hey, this looks interesting….”.

del.icio.us has a neat networking feature which will aggregate the links across your network, in a cute little rss feed, even.

That’s fun, but what if you want to flip thru the link crates from your network’s network? Enter Yahoo Pipes, (the Access 95 of Web 2.0!). I created a pipe which pulls in my network feed plus selectednetwork feeds from other nerds I’ve been following. Dulicate links get filtered out and I’ve got one rich set of links to sift through.

I’m sure there are more elegant ways to filter and manipulate the feed contents, but this is working prettty swell so far.

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