The power of the Web – and of community-driven sites – really manifests itself when someone talks about one of your sites – in Spanish.
A few minutes ago I launched gre.gario.us, the first in a series of upcoming projects from my new development umbrella of sites called Semsym. This is the first new service I’ve launched in a while, and it works due to the fact that the simplest tools are often the most useful.
Basically, gre.gario.us takes any del.icio.us username and finds people who have bookmarked 2 or more of the 25 latest links the user has found. It then displays a list of “friends” in descending order of common link count. (lots more about the service on the about page.
The site uses PHP with some HTML regular expression parsing; I took great care to put most of the burden on MY servers, not del.icio.us. In fact, nearly everything (user pages and URL pages, to be exact) is cached daily; the first time a user or a URL is accessed through gre.gario.us in a day, the page will hit del.icio.us and call for the page. If it’s already been accessed – even if the URL has been used by another gre.gario.us user – it runs from the cache. That means that the friend list updates daily, so there’s some incentive to go back to the site.
Found on del.icio.us…
The biggest, hugest congrats of the day go to VW and DDB London for an AMAZING ad that probably has Gene Kelly looking down and either laughing or cursing.
From the wow, look at what technology can do department, check out Singin’ in the Rain… updated (direct QuickTime link, 5.6 MB), and if you’ve never seen the movie or just want to see the original again, look near the bottom of the page at Reel Classics.
Good: getting an annoying problem solved at work
Bad: knowing you should’ve been able to solve the problem faster
Good: knowing you weren’t the only one who couldn’t solve it
Good: Pat’s Pizza
Good: budget Blizzards (Frosty at Wendy’s + M&Ms)
Bad: the feeling you have after Pat’s Pizza & a budget Blizzard
Bad: 5 hours of sleep + lots of upcoming stressful stuff
Bad: 170 pages to read in a not-so-easy-on-the-eyes book
Good: 8 hours of sleep
Good: not worrying too much
Good: having a presentation go well
Bad: not having a completely clear idea of what you were presenting about
Good: ad-lib!
Good: having a friend who really cares
Good: having a really good idea for a site
Bad: having someone tell you it’s already been done
Good: doing it anyway 
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