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BBC News del.icio.us Tags

[Made by BBC Staff]

I'd wanted to see the goodness of del.icio.us brought to the mainstream bbc.co.uk/news site.

I used a wikiproxy esque approach as displayed on http://wikiproxy.whitelabel.org/

key feature being

- anyone can add del.icio.us tags to any article

which allows me to:

- find news articles (on bbc.co.uk/news), based on my own tagging
- search by tag, to find what other people (or I) tagged

and allows the bbc to aggregate tags across users for a given article, which can then power

- top tags for any given article (metadata, navigation)
- related articles, based on the above
- related links, via del.icio.us based on top (similar) tags

then make it all time sensitive, which leads to a "user built" edition (vs uk/world)

for extra points, extend to any bbc.co.uk page

  • 11 May 2005 10:27 AM

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  • 1.
  • On 15 Mar 2005 11:43 AM,
  • Murray said:

kinda obvious, but an interesting observation:

each time someone tags a page, we typically get a couple of click-throughs via del.icio.us within a few minutes to the tagged article.

I guess it's people monitoring either all posts, or particular keywords.

But it ads an interesting/evil marketing/traffic-building element to this idea, assuming it was done for real & used del.icio.us (although it's likely a similar effect would be seen from a bbc only system if built in a way to allow people to monitor/track keywords & posts)

  • 2.
  • On 15 Mar 2005 12:29 PM,
  • Tomski said:

I'd like to be able to navigate the delicious pages of other people who's also tagged a particular BBC page... social nav, etc.

  • 3.
  • On 12 May 2005 10:07 AM,
  • BioGeek said:

I also would like to be able to add BBC pages tagged in this way to my own del.icio.us account, instead of to the general news.tags account.

For the rest, nicely done.

Could this be extended to blog style trackbacks to artciles so people could read the views of others on articles and see how it is being interpreted around the world.

Tomski, the Scrumptious extension for Firefox (http://www.allpeers.com/blog/?page_id=71) does something vaguely similar.

  • 6.
  • On 16 May 2005 01:00 PM,
  • Dan said:

It appears that everything is going a bit Pete Tong for me!

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