Ross Miller at FriendFeed responded to my question about FriendFeed del.icio.us feeds not updating. It seems del.icio.us is blocking mass spidering of their site.
Ross’s email:
“Hi Sol, del.icio.us places restraints on our ability to crawl their site. So if for some reason the item is missed, it becomes very hard for us to retrieve the del.icio.us link. Unfortunately for now the refresh button is your best option when this happens. Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope to get this resolved with del.icio.us soon.”
Looks like this is a restriction on del.icio.us’s end.
del.icio.us has been blocking GAE apps as well. They do have a whitelisting process however …
del.icio.us has been blocking GAE apps as well. They do have a whitelisting process however …