I was just wandering around Del.icio.us a bit and I’m sure I gave one or more of their servers a workout. I had an idea: who were the first people to bookmark the web’s most popular sites?<\/p>\n
On a whim, I started with Technorati. I searched del.icio.us for it and clicked on the red “4124 people” link to see the Technorati : Home url page. After a bit of downloading(that’s a big page!) I scrolled to the bottom and found it was a guy named angusf.<\/p>\n
Then I looked through some of his earliest bookmarks and began searching for even earlier bookmarks. The earliest one I found was way back in 6-11-2000 by ericbogs. It was my.yahoo.com. I think it just may be the earliest bookmark on del.icio.us and I have a feeling it’s a test bookmark since I don’t think has been running since 2000.<\/p>\n
The Del.icio.us database is amazing…here are some other query ideas:<\/p>\n
Of people’s first 10 bookmarks, what are the top 100 to appear for the most users?<\/p>\n
Compare Alexa’s top 100 list for daily reach and traffic with the #s for bookmarks in the del.icio.us database. The question I would be asking is, do bookmarks correlate well with traffic?<\/p>\n
Finally, it would be interesting to follow through and build a list of the first users to bookmark each of Alexa’s top 100.<\/p>\n
There are litterally millions of research ideas on the del.icio.us database and as long as you take care and use the information responsibly we can probably all learn quite a bit about ourselves from this large, open data store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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