The CollaborativeRank project reveals some very interesting information about del.icio.us users and tags. A couple of functions I find most interesting:

  • Searching for a tag such as origami provides a list based on popularity of items, kind of a Google PageRank for links.
  • If there are enough users, it will also reveal ‘experts’ for a tag, such as this search for paper (look for the experts just under the search box)
  • The ‘experts’ idea goes further, though, and this is most interesting to me because I believe it represents the inevitable direction of this kind of social networking and resource sharing. Use a ‘via’ search to find experts related to your tags. For instance, this search for via:fncll reveals the top 10 users who bookmarked the same links I did before I did. Fascinating. I’m very curious about the percentages of recriprocal experts. For instance, one of my experts is Doug and I am one of his experts. Interestingly, while most of our expert lists differ, I find a lot of value in his experts as well. That is a valuable tree of information to explore.

CollaborativeRank does some other things too… check it out!

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