News from Del.icio.us has been slow the last year – a couple of controversies and some solid overall growth. It’s an example of something the Internet really needed, but it’s also a bit of a one-trick pony. You bookmark stuff, tag it, and share it. Good data comes out of aggregrated user generated data. That’s pretty much the end of the story. I love Del.icio.us, but there isn’t much else to say about it, and the Yahoo team seems to be focused on getting del.icio.us, Yahoo Bookmarks and My Web onto a single back end platform.
Today, however, there is a bit of news. They’ve launched a website widget that displays the how many times that site has been bookmarked in Del.icio.us, along with popular tags. We’ve added the widget script below in this post. We may add it permanently to the site as well, in our effort to continue to provide full visibility into TechCrunch statistics.
To add the widget to your site, see the instructions here. It’s a one line script. Our previous coverage of Del.icio.us is here.
The difference between item pages and front pages of blogs seems like it could post a problem in use.
On something like a WordPress blog, you just need to add a conditional to make sure the bookmark only shows up on the archive page.
I love the site, have been a user but the support is lacking. I forgot my password once, took multiple attempts before I heard back from them. You’d think their password retrieval would be automated, no?
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It’s about time del.icio.us come out with something like this. Wasn’t it obvious to everyone that they should have a widget that provides this functionality?
It’s good that this functionality has finally now been provided. I think it will be very handy and the fact that its just one line of code is a bonus.
this is just not worthy of a post.
Too bad it is but ugly, please don’t put on your site. I really do like the snap add on and the mybloglog, but this doesn’t seem to add much value. I still think they should be fully focused on search.
I agree with frum. They should definitely give you the option to customize the look of the widget…at the very least change the colors. Not sure how many people want a big gray box with a bunch of random tags in it slapped across their homepage.
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Wag- I agree. next thing you know a post will be about a new fancy CONTACT US form… some stuff shoul just be not glorified.
I wondered when they’d release some extra features.
Suer its identifiable as a del.icio.us item, but its going to clash something chronic with a look of slick looking blogs etc… I don’t know that many people will be happy to plaster it all over their sites.
what if i tag a page with misleading tags? will it not be bad for the page carrying the widget?
It will likely help those who place it in a conspicous place – get more saves – but if someone is tempted to click on the Tags, it could lead them away, especially, since it is not opening up a new browser window
Here is their Blog Post with interesting comments:
http://blog.del...ew_and_tag.html
i love del.icio.us…it has provided plenty of traffic to my blog.
Could the widget have a better looking? I’m not sure it will hurt my web site designs if I integrate it. Seems del.icio.us never cares about the UI design.
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I say screw the widget – want to know why? Check here:
http://www.cent...elicious-widget
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Mike – a nice place for the widget might be between the two 160 skyscrapers on the right – or right next to the dancing alien leaderboard.
“Wag- I agree. next thing you know a post will be about a new fancy CONTACT US form… some stuff shoul just be not glorified. ” – Survival Shows
Come on Guys…this may very well turn out to be sliced bread…..give it some time
A one-trick pony is fine as long as it’s a good trick. And don’t forget the sweet little play-tagger feature for mp3s.
Forget the widget. As a navy dude I know would term it, “it’s like polishing a turd.”
Del.icio.us has gotten ridiculously slow. Slowness (thanks yahoo) combined with its lousy interface for bulk editing of bookmarks has made del.icio.us unusable for me.
After much looking, I have switched to netvouz. It’s usability leaves del.icio.us in the dust.
Note also that I have absolutely no connection to netvouz. I have no connection to any company. I’m just another user looking for something nice to get the job done. Happy holidays.
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This site really is going down the web2.0 fluff route lately. That annoying Snap preview thing is hateful, and here come more widgets, bells and whistles.
As a suggestion, try focusing more on tech news and less on little bits of nonsense that just add to the bloat.
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I agree with you, try also http://www.pytagor.com
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Nice, easier bookmarking is better!
Why is it that I have been sending them emails for the last year to get more features added into their API, yet they come out with this? Some of this info is stuff that should be included in their API. We’d even pay for it, but no, they give out out through this thing… They need to get their priorities straight.
This feature is not interesting enough to plaster on my site, but it did prompt me to bookmark my own site temporarily so I could see how many people had bookmarked it in the past. (Answer: 7.)
Nifty idea. I didn’t like Del.icio.us’ interface, but I am glad that Yahoo! acquired them and look forward to a full integration with their other services – which I like much better.
Why does it have to be so fugly ? I’d love to use it, but gosh – is it just me – or does it not look totally lame ?
Yes, everybody hates the del.icio.us look. Use stylish, e.g.
http://userstyl.../style/show/583
and convert any ugly site into a nice one.
I wouldn’t want to paste that anywhere on my website. I like the functionality of the widget, but it’s just plain ugly. I really wish they’d do something about their overall design. Even the logo sucks.
I don’t like it so I’ve searched for something better and I found Widgipedia.
I’ll have to check this out, I’m interesting in adding something like this to my footer but I wasn’t sure where to look