Collective Aware TagCloud

As you might notice, I added a tagcloud to the top of this page. This tagcloud is a ‘cloud’ that contains all keywords assigned to resources on this blog. On first sight it looks like a standard tagcloud, like the one seen on del.icio.us.

This tagcloud is different however! I gave it something special: awareness of ‘the collective’, the blogosphere.

I spend a few hours today connecting this cloud to the web’s central bookmarking website: del.icio.us. This funny named website has an instant stream of new tagged resources every minute. The tagcloud above will highlight any tag the moment one has been added into the collective.

Note: it’s still a little buggy, since del.icio.us doesn’t allow too much RSS traffic, I will need to optimize that.