[Web4lib] del.icio.us for use in libraries links... search del.icio.us by username?

[David Rothman]

I think this might do the trick.

Explained here:
http://zooie.wordpress.com/2007/01/03/google-co-op-just-got-delicious/

Build your custom search engine based on your del.icio.us links here:
http://basundi.com:8000/login.html

I tried it months ago- worked great. :)

Best,

-David

http://davidrothman.net


On 6/14/07, robin na <georgiawebgurl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> A few weeks ago I posted a request for help in styling a dropdown menu for
> del.icio.us links which are being pulled into a library's departmental
> html page. Thank you for the feedback on styling. If you are currently using
> del.icio.us to manage a library's links I would love to see what you have
> done. :-)
>
> What I'm looking for now:
> A means to search (beyond tag cloud) my dept.'s del.icio.us links from
> within our html webpage. I've tried google search via our del.icio.us RSS
> pages, but I am not having much success.  Someone suggested that it might
> have to do with the dynamic nature of del.icio.us links. Does anyone know
> of a script/widget  to put a search del.icio.us box on a website? I've
> read mention of a javascript, but I can't seem to actually find an example
> of it on the 'net.
>
> My working example (minus a working search and a more integrated color
> scheme!) is http://www.libs.uga.edu/catalog/links.html
>
> The background:
> My dept. has 200+ links. We are currently deciding if we want to have
> linked multiple html pages (one for each large category) or one page with
> scrollable divs. I've created the links page with scrollable divs as a
> working example. Regardless of which direction my group will want to go in,
> we will need searching across all of our links in del.icio.us.
>
> The links page does need to stay in html in order to fit with the larger
> website. I also need to do a few tweaks to one style sheet so that it
> doesn't interfere with the Librarie's larger sheet (hence, the funky color
> scheme).
>
> Thanks greatly,
> Robin
>
> robin na <georgiawebgurl at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all,
> I have migrated a somewhat extensive internal library links list to
> del.icio.us. The goal is to pull all of the links (200+ and listed
> multiple times) into a webpage template so that I can control the
> presentation of the links. I've created a css collapsible multi-level menu
> to provide a structure that is similiar to the existing anchor/target list
> (and of course, added a lovely tag cloud as another access point.)
>
> So, everything looks good, until I started populating each of the
> categories in the menu with more links... and I discovered a snag after
> about 8 links. It seems impossible to view each complete group of links
> through scrolling (the menu collapses/closes early). If I continue down this
> path, I'm thinking that I will need to break these up into individual menus.
>
> Any idea on a better way of doing this? For those of you who've
> incorporated del.icio.us links into webpages, how did you style your
> links?
>
> I have 5 main categories and 200+ links. My menu works perfectly with a
> small display (less than 8 or so links).
>
> Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'll be glad to share the
> page if I can ever get it working properly. ;-)
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Got a little couch potato?
> Check out fun summer activities for kids.
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4lib at webjunction.org
> http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's
> on, when.
> _______________________________________________
> Web4lib mailing list
> Web4lib at webjunction.org
> http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/
>



-- 
<table style="font-size:11px;color:#555;border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
<td>David Rothman //</td>
<td><a href="http://davidrothman.net"> davidrothman.net</a></td>
</tr>
</table>