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by Jax 6554 days ago
Yippee! Thats great. But how did u findout delicious's and stumbleupon's? By reverse engineering technique... like... Were these found out(or guess-worked) by constantly keeping track of the ranking of content?

Joshu, i think the del.icio.us formula is right, or they might just be using a different time constraint than 1 hour(maybe 2hrs or anything else). Because to findout what's popular they dont require any complex stuff. Simple math as specified in Danny's post is enough for their task.

Go Danny! Go!!!

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Umm, yeah. To make it more clear, when you refer to 'they' in your comment, you are actually talking about Joshu!
I would trust user 'joshu' on matters related to del.icio.us.
God!

Gojomo, is that really Joshua, the founder of Delicious and Memepool? I just guessed it when u mentioned the username in single quotes. ;) I wouldn't talk a word abt the algo then. :D

click on 'joshu' 's user name.
Yeah, Jax. You know, he might just be the founder of it.