I know I’ve been a bit del.icio.us heavy in my posts lately, but I’ve got another little del.ico.us enabled collaboration story that I think is worth relating. I discussed a few examples here, one of which Claire subsequently expanded on here, and then I followed up by discussing how Jon Udell had illustrated the for: tag facility available within the service.
A couple of days after that last entry, one of our clients, Sleepycat’s Mike Olson, made use of that tag to direct a couple of new Sleepycat sites – their blogs and their dev zone – to my attention (excellent job on the blog, guys – subscribed). While it’s great that Mike’s using that facility, as it keeps my email inbox free of messages that don’t require a reply, that in and of itself wouldn’t be that compelling.
In hopping over to one of Dev Zone link he sent over, however, I discovered that they’d astutely included links to the ‘sleepycat’ del.icio.us and Technorati tags (somewhere, Christopher is wincing at the Technorati tags inclusion) on the page much as the OpenSolaris folks were smart enough to do. What did I discover when I clicked through to the ‘sleepycat’ tag on del.icio.us? A link from yet another Friend of RedMonk, Stephe Walli, to this very favorable Sleepycat story from the IT Manager’s Journal. Because I know and trust Senor Walli (safe travels, sir), the link takes on a new importance for me and I was only to happy to click through. If you didn’t follow all of that, the sequence was Mike to me to the Dev Zone to Stephe Walli – del.icio.us connected us three (four, including the site) in an ad-hoc, completely unorganized fashion. What happens if del.icio.us is out of the picture? I probably miss that story, or they might link to it and I skip it minus the implicit endorsement from Stephe.
That’s the kind of serendipity that keeps me coming back. I can say pretty much without reservation that I appreciate del.icio.us more every day.
Update: Corrected the link to Stephe’s blog – thx for the correction, sir.
