Comments on: You Say Tomato, I Say Del.icio.us http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/ Social Media Marketing Explained Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:34:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: This is Social Blend: Puppy Power http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/#comment-19271 This is Social Blend: Puppy Power Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:38:17 +0000 http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/you-say-tomato-i-say-delicious/#comment-19271 [...] You say tomato, I say Del.icio.us http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/ [...] [...] You say tomato, I say Del.icio.us http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/ [...]

]]> By: Pierre Far http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/#comment-19061 Pierre Far Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:10:28 +0000 http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/you-say-tomato-i-say-delicious/#comment-19061 Good question and very fun answers. On one internal project that talked to delicious extensively, I used the variable names "yummy", "food", and "cook" a lot. Something yummy was an item (a link) stored on delicious, and a collection of items returned by the delicious API was called food. The submission function was called Cook(), i.e., make something delicious. Hey, programmers have to entertain themselves somehow :) Pierre <em>Pierre Far's last blog post..<a href='http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/ms-live-still-referral-spamming' rel="nofollow">MS Live Still Referral Spamming</a></em> Good question and very fun answers. On one internal project that talked to delicious extensively, I used the variable names “yummy”, “food”, and “cook” a lot. Something yummy was an item (a link) stored on delicious, and a collection of items returned by the delicious API was called food.

The submission function was called Cook(), i.e., make something delicious.

Hey, programmers have to entertain themselves somehow :)

Pierre

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]]> By: Kristen http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/#comment-19030 Kristen Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:49:37 +0000 http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/you-say-tomato-i-say-delicious/#comment-19030 I tasted it and it was Delicious. <em>Kristen's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/socialmediamom/blog/~3/241529557/social-media-bl.html' rel="nofollow">Social Media Blog List of 2008</a></em> I tasted it and it was Delicious.

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]]> By: david http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/how-to-say-delicious/#comment-18982 david Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:34:31 +0000 http://nowsourcing.com/blog/2008/03/07/you-say-tomato-i-say-delicious/#comment-18982 An interesting linguistic conundrum that needs no solution. After all, if there was actually a need for such a word---that is, if "saved it" was really unacceptable---it would or will develop organically. Forcing linguistics doesn't work. Consider the failed pronoun "thon." (I'd offer you a site that details that history, but I couldn't find one.) <em>david's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/linkbanana/~3/247599349/' rel="nofollow">Household Electricity Consumption</a></em> An interesting linguistic conundrum that needs no solution. After all, if there was actually a need for such a word—that is, if “saved it” was really unacceptable—it would or will develop organically.

Forcing linguistics doesn’t work. Consider the failed pronoun “thon.” (I’d offer you a site that details that history, but I couldn’t find one.)

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