Extisp.icio.us October 17, 2006
Posted by karen t in Uncategorized.trackback
In Even Tastier than del.icio.us, Philip Hollenback talks about some neat additions to use with del.icio.us. One tool called extisp.icio.us lets deli.cio.us users display their tags as a “random textual scattering” or as a group of images based on image searches for tag names, simply by typing in a user name. In the tag view, clicking on a tag will link you to the del.icio.us tag page (for that user). Unfortunately, the way the tags are organized isn’t very helpful. They appear on top of one another, and some of them are so small that they are unreadable. Since I can already view my tag cloud right in del.icio.us (and it looks a lot better) I’m not sure why I would want to use this version. Images do not link to the del.icio.us tags. Overall, this is sort of interesting, but I can’t really think of how it would be very useful.
You can view my extis.icio.us results here:
Though kind of cool – the ability to create a tag cloud in extisp.icio.us does seem redundant. That said, the graphic nature really appealed to my design sense. I think if you consistently used tags that had great meaning to you, it would be a great method of creating personalized art. Certainly not what was intended but I think it would look great framed and hanging on a wall.