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While researching my [earlier post on Popuri.us][1] I ran across a cool del.icio.us feature I wasn't familiar with. The [del.icio.us url feature][2] lets you track when people bookmark your sites. Moreover, it lets you see what other people are saying about your site through the tags they use and (possibly) the descriptions they write.
You can see this information by pointing your browser to delicious.com/url and type in the page you'd like to track. Even better, at the bottom of the page there's a link to an RSS feed that will send results to the RSS reader of your choice.
If you'd like to skip the visit to del.icio.us, here's the base url for the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/url?url=http://yoursite.com/. Just replace yoursite.com with the page you'd like to track.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to track a whole domain so if you enter the base URL for your site you'll only see those people that have bookmarked your homepage, not the people that have bookmarked your permalinks for instance.
Because I prefer [ma.gnolia][4] to del.icio.us I dug around the ma.gnolia site for bit looking for similar functionality, but came up empty. Ma.gnolia does offer a nice Javascript bookmarklet called "[Roots][5]" which provides the same functionality as delicious.com/url, but thanks to Ajax, you can view the results from any page.
Stripping out the Javascript aspect, if you just point your browser to http://ma.gnolia.com/meta/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com you'll get the results of Roots. Unfortunately there's no RSS feed to subscribe to, which limits the usefulness of the feature.
found via [Digital Inspiration][3]
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/popuri_website_.html "Popuri: Website Statistics At A Glance"
[2]: http://del.icio.us/url/ "del.icio.us url"
[3]: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/03/know-when-people-bookmark-you-on.html "Know When People Bookmark You on Del.icio.us"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "ma.gnolia.com"
[5]: http://ma.gnolia.com/meta/roots "ma.gnolia Roots"
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