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Top 10 Web 2.0 Winners — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:45:23 +0000

[...] skies for Yahoo.And if you don’t believe in the power of being acquired by a big company, del.icio.us has just announced they have registered their one millionth user and showing a growth rate that has tripled since [...]

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By: TechCrunch en français » Yahoo donne un coup de lifting à son service de gestion de favoris

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:29:01 +0000

[...] Yahoo Bookmarks, bien que peu populaire auprès d’utilisateurs aguerris, annonce 20 millions d’utilisateurs actifs (à comparé au million de del.icio.us) [...]

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo Bookmarks Enters 21st Century. — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:36:05 +0000

[...] Yahoo Bookmarks, while invisible to most cutting edge web users, still claims around 20 million active users (compared to only 1 million for del.icio.us). [...]

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us reports 1 million users - post Yahoo! growth tops all of Digg

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:20:05 +0000

[...] Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted to the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user. Schachter says that number has more than tripled in the last 9 months. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005.read more | digg story [...]

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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:55:03 +0000

[...] Joshua Schachter over at Del.icio.us announced this week that they had registered their 1 millionth user while TechCrunch in their own summary also reminded us that Digg recently reported they had just passed the half million mark. [...]

By: Gladys

Gladys — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:06:21 +0000

I’m not sure I’m following you all, sorry if I’m “going the wrong way”, but if you’re discussing social bookmarking, I can’t see how Delicio.us outdoes Blinklist, which I see nobody has mentioned so far… After reading you, I’ve peeped into Diggs, but is it for exactly the same purpose? I found lots of stories reported, not personal collections of links…

By: Nitin Nanivadekar

Nitin Nanivadekar — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:51:47 +0000

a good post - http://mintr.com/blog/2006/09/.....than-digg/

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:52:45 +0000

Hey Stewart, John in Vancity here, if I remember correctly (almost never do!) your inspiration for tags @ flickr was from Del.icio.us was it not ? Now that is an interesting story! Anyhow congrats on breaking 5mln and I sure hope there are no meetings to see if all can attend a meeting now that your so huge!

By: AdverseE

AdverseE — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:09:26 +0000

I agree with David Quiec about the # of registered users metric being a useless comparison of Digg and Del.icio.us. To compare the two of them is like comparing oranges and tangerines. They’re similar in some ways but they are not the same.

You can track statistics of the two sites until you’re blue in the face, but the simple fact is del.icio.us acts more as a useful tool to store bookmarks and discover popular new links while Digg is more of a news/bookmarking social community focused on the discovery and discussion of popular/new links. Therefore, you’ll see more registered users of del.icio.us (so they can store their bookmarks) but more traffic on Digg (as users, registered and not registered) visit links, vote on them, and discuss why they did or didn’t digg them.)

Now, a metric that seems more interesting to me is the comparison of Digg’s traffic versus Digg’s registered users. As a user must be registered to ‘digg’ a posted link and post comments, the difference between these numbers will paint a picture of how many people just visit the links versus how many people actually participate in the community aspect (or, in another commenters words, they just don’t ‘get it.’)

By: David Quiec

David Quiec — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:27:00 +0000

You can’t compare Delicious and Digg on the # of users metric. Delicious is moderately useful if you’re a not a registered user, but it’s very practical when you do. Digg is immensely useful even if you don’t sign up.

By: Ernie Oporto

Ernie Oporto — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:38:42 +0000

I would like to see Yahoo dump their old bookmarks service and put Del.icio.us into the My Yahoo page. Not really interested in an RSS feed of my Del.icio.us bookmarks and I would not want to see this as the sole way to use Del.icio.us, but just as another way to access the bookmarks.

By: Diogo Azevedo » del.icio.us atinge a marca de 1 mi de usuários

Diogo Azevedo » del.icio.us atinge a marca de 1 mi de usuários — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:08:08 +0000

[...] Fonte: del.icio.us Blog / TechCrunch [...]

By: Eric Blue

Eric Blue — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:40:44 +0000

1 million users is a great milestone. When and how do del.icio.us plan on making money? Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge del.icio.us fan. But to sustain growth, doesn’t Yahoo need some discernable revenue model?

By: Taz

Taz — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:40:35 +0000

I’m a big fan of delicious. I use it all the time. But with all this growth, its servers often tend to get bogged down. It becomes a way too slow process to move around in delicious. They really need to improve this if they are going to continue to expand.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:14:04 +0000

I think ckd and Ioan are partially right about the fact that you can use digg without an account but that the other two (delicious and Flickr) are much more useful when you have an account.

I think the other issue is that Flickr is much more geared towards the masses than delicious and digg - everyone loves (and understands) photos, right? And for now I think even delicious is more geared towards the masses than digg (everyone needs and understands bookmarks, right?).

I think a lot of the regular people out there still don’t get digg - or they get it and they’re not that interested in it. In our community there’s a lot of talk about digg and people have enjoyed using it for finding interesting technology articles. It will be interesting to see how well the model works with other topics and if it can really make it into the mainstream.

By: Bjoern

Bjoern — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:49:05 +0000

I agree with Michael that there is room for plenty more services like this, especially, since Digg and Del.icio..us have benn slow to internationalize their efforts. (Which would be easy for Del.ico.us to do, actually). So I suppose that foreign counterparts / copies of these services, like Mister Wong in Germany, stand a reasonably good chance of survival.

By: Dadblog » del.icio.us flying

Dadblog » del.icio.us flying — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:06:24 +0000

[...] This is really interesting, and I don’t pretend to even begin to understand the implications of it: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us reports 1 million users - post Yahoo! growth tops all of Digg [...]

By: Ioan Sameli

Ioan Sameli — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:25:07 +0000

I think there may be another reason for del.icio.us to have more users than Digg: You don’t need to register to use digg’s primary feature (discover new stories), while Del.icio.us is very limited without being registered.

So i can guess many people use digg without creating an account.

On alexa, Digg has twice the traffic of del.icio.us… It confirms

By: James Logan » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us reports 1 million users - post Yahoo! growth tops all of Digg

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:05:08 +0000

[...] source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006.....l-of-digg/ [...]

By: Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:59:40 +0000

Flickr had 2.5 million on February 19th of this year. It now has a little over 4.9 million - will be over 5 million next week.

By: Mintr - Social NewsMarking » Blog Archive » Why is Delicious yummier than Digg?

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:59:06 +0000

[...] This post is in response to Joshua’s blog as well as Michale’s remarks on that feat. [...]

By: Nitin Nanivadekar

Nitin Nanivadekar — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:55:37 +0000

I think there is a need for a few more services, especially to bring the news content in the social arena.