It occurs to me that I finally have a use for that old iMac on which I installed Yellow Dog Linux over a year ago: the Ultra Gleeper.
Also, check out this hilarious graph from Leonard’s official Gleeper paper, on methods of obtaining new links to recommend:
| Method | Link quality | Limitations |
|---|---|---|
| Stumbling upon incoming links while following outgoing
links |
Pretty good | Depends on serendipity |
| Google Web API (link: queries) | Not good: ordered by
PageRank instead of recentness |
1000 queries/user/day |
| Technorati web API (Cosmos query) | Excellent | 500 queries/user/day, frequently down |
| del.icio.us screen scraping | Excellent | I tried this and Joshua Schachter got mad at me |