Web. Ordered Lists of Links from delicious Using Yahoo Pipes. One of the things that I often use the delicious social bookmarking service for is to push lists of links into web pages, web dashboards, or the feedshow link presenter.
However, sometimes it’s important to be able to push the links in a particular order (particularly for the link presenter) rather than the order in which the links were bookmarked (i.e. order by timestamp based on when the bookmark was saved). So a couple of days ago it occurred to me that I should be able to do this with a simple Yahoo Pipe by using a tags to order the sequence of links and sorting on those. So for anyone who remembers programming in BASIC, and number the lines 10, 20, 30 (or 100, 200, 300) to give yourself “room” to insert additional lines, the following convention may be familiar… STEP 1: tag your links according to the convention: ORDERLABEL:nnn.
STEP 2: build the pipe. Del.icio.us network explorer. Del.icio.us A-to-Z by Functions : All 150+ hacks categorized.