Then each went to his own home

Well, it was just about two or three days ago when I realized, how cool del.icio.us is. I then added all my links I previously managed in a private Movabletype blog to my del.icio.us account.

Then, inspired by the amazing demo of Matt Biddulph I implemented “related del.icio.us” in this blog. You see it when you are in the individual entry archive view.

This is realized by using the object tag (XHTML version of iframe), so this can be added everywhere and is not restricted to a blog, and you don’t need a cron job calling it (you know: cron job=dirty thing! :).
In the data-property I put the URL of my PHP-script that uses magpie to get the RSS-Data from del.icio.us. I can add tags to the URL so in my movable type template I did this:

<object type="text/html" width="600" height="120"
data="http://www.pui.ch/phred/delicious/delicious.php?tag=<MTEntryCategories glue="+"><$MTCategoryLabel$></MTEntryCategories>&n=5">
</object>

Doing this I’m able to get all my del.icio.us links that relate to the current post.
It then iterates over all tags and gets all links (don’t worry: this is then cached for 3 hours..), counts the occurence of the retrieved links and orders them by occurence. If the script doesn’t find one of my del.icio.us links relating to the tags, it goes for the links of all people. If you are interested in the PHP-Script, tell me!
I have not yet seen this thing on any blog, but well, since I’m just visiting about a dozen blogs, you may know some who already do this thing..

Update
A similar thing can be done with taga.licio.us
Update: I moved to Wordpress and didn’t have time to implement this feature again. I have plans to do a tool that is more general a “RSS agregator” based on tags for different services (del.icio.us and other bookmark-services as well as services as the media manager)

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