<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So, here it is: Getting data from existent social bookmarking services may be an option we should consider. Think of it - aggregating data from <A href="http://del.icio.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">del.icio.us</A>, stumbleupon, etc. Now, I can't imagine how we'd get Yahoo to give us the data from <A href="http://del.icio.us" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> del.icio.us</A>, but maybe there are other providers who would be willing to do this. Or perhaps we look at paying them for it, at least enough to cover their bandwidth and other overhead. <BR><BR>Anybody got an ideas around this type of thing?</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>Yeah.. its a good way to find the actual interest of the people thru social book marking, digg and many other social websites.. But it all matters whether they are ready to release data open to such open source search projects.. </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>For the most part, all of those sites and all of that data *is* open, it just needs to be intelligently crawled and indexed. They're great seed sites for keeping a crawler fresh.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sure it would be nice to have it in a more digestible form, but it's all there already :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jer</DIV></BODY></HTML>