links for 2008-01-13

• The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking - The Top 24 Sites | 10e20 Blog
  “put together a list of the top 20 social bookmarking sites. They based their results on data on a combination of Compete.com and Quantcast data. I have provided the list below with a short explanation of each site (from the sites themselves & Wikipedia)
  (tags: del.icio.us clone comparison list via robotwisdom rating rank traffic 2008 january bookmark tags)
• The 200-year-old love poem and the heart it broke - icWales
  “there were similar trends back in 1801. Instead of writing out some words in full, Pugh has replaced them with abbreviations like “CU” in a startling precursor to today’s teen text-speak.”
  via http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/cat_do_you_speak
  (tags: texting ttotd via history language poem love)
• il tinello loc: Rome (Lazio), Italia - Google Maps
  “Il Tinello Sas - more info »
  Via Di Porta Pinciana, 16, 00187 Roma (RM), Italy
  06 486847″
  Our favorite restaurant way back in the early 1960s.
  (tags: restaurant rome roma italy past 1962 guitar stephen map family mynote)