If You Don’t Use Del.icio.us, You Will Now

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1. P. G.
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

   Thanks for the news Michael. I wasn’t a big fan of Del.ici.ous for speed reasons as well. I will give it a try now.

2. Chris
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

   Funny, I stopped using Firefox because it was too damn slow. It will take more than a whizzy extension to bring me back.

3. Ilya Lichtenstein
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm

   I’ve tried to use del.icio.us several times, and never got into it. I have a feeling a lot of people, including me will stick to offline bookmarks. In my case, that means about 50 categorized text files.

4. Neil Kelty
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

   I’ve been using Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks for a while, but thank goodness for this - this will let me check out my stuff from ANYWHERE not just the places I have a Firefox browser.

5. Justin Miller
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

   If you are on a Mac and you’ve switched from Firefox or if you have multiple del.icio.us accounts, check out Pukka.

6. Vaughn
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

   There should be a quick mention that Flock has this built into it. I know some folks aren’t a fan of Flock but I’ve found the del.icio.us integration alone incredibly useful.

7. Jaisen
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

   @Ilya: Have you tried the add on? I started using delicious before they released the add on. There was some other extension for firefox but it kind of sucked. I would bookmark here and there. But with their new extension it makes bookmarking so easy that I’ve easily increased my bookmarking by 10x.

8. ToddZ
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

   The only thing slower than managing bookmarks with Del.icio.us is doing anything with Firefox.

9. Michael Arrington
   

   April 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

   Jaisen, yes, I’m running it now and it’s really good. Toddz, you should try it out. It’s very fast.

10. Tomas
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    Mac users should checkout an optimized version of FireFox: http://www.beatnikpad.com/arch.....refox-2002

    Works like a charm for me. Been using it for a month or so.

11. elvirs
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    great news but I always wanted saving to delicious by drag and drop. it works in a bundles view and bookmarks view but when you select tags view it does not sort them. I would like to see my tags as firefox bookmarks folders and would be great if I can drag and drop to that lets say folders for the link to be saved under that tag.

12. elvirs
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    sorry, my english is very turkish:)

13. maique
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    i was a del.icio.us user until i made the switch to ma.gnolia.com, and i never looked back.

    as far as pukka goes, i’m still waiting for the ma-gnolia support that was talked about some time ago, but manage just great with their bookmarklet.
    together with quicksilver integration, i have things working just fine.

14. mrshl
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    @ Vaughn, Flock does not have “this” built in. Flock does integrate with del.icio.us, and it is helpful, but it’s nowhere near this smooth or flexible. The feature sets aren’t really comparable.

    Also, I have a review I posted last week, with pictures if you want to peek before you install.

    http://mrshl.vox.com/library/p.....marks.html

15. Christopher Sisk
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    I find this update a bit “bloated” … I like del.icio.us due to its simplicity. this adds a lot of junk and extra clicks to my browser…

    Removing “Del.icio.us Bookmarks” extension

    Re-installing “Del.icio.us” extension.

16. Hashim
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    “Currently Del.icio.us only allows bookmarks to be public or private. I’m hoping they’ll soon allow users to share bookmarks with friends only, which is sort of in between.”

    That is already possible. See:
    http://del.icio.us/help/for

17. Daniel
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Sometimes I wonder if having del.icio.us is worth it. It gets so cluttered sometimes….

18. dgsinclair
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    I’ve used Furl for a long time because I find delicious too user unfriendly. I also use foxmarks.

    I’ve thought about getting rid of bookmarks entirely and only using an online tagging service, just haven’t implemented yet.

    Anyone got advice on that? I use tagged pages for reference, and bookmarks for pages I hit all the time. Although, most of the pages I hit all of the time are either search engines or available via bloglines. I guess the only real need for bookmarks are sites that don’t have rss feeds.

19. Jason Coleman
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    I’m still surprised that del.icio.us doesn’t have good mobile support yet. A year ago I created http://mobilicio.us to access del.icio.us bookmarks from a mobile browser, and I really thought it would obsolete by now. (warning: it’s fairly buggy on old phones)

    I think that Yahoo! has big mobile plans, which is pretty apparent from some of their current releases, but something as simple as listing your bookmarks in a format more friendly for phones (no header, navigation at the bottom) would go a long way.

20. tones
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Right, so today we have the del.icio.us extension and comparisons to flock (@mrshl I would argue that flock’s forthcoming 0.8 release is a lot closer, and I got as far as reading the word ‘toolbar’ and then went no further)

    Yesterday we had coop which is similar to Flock’s people implementation that has been kicking about in danphe releases for a while. Tommorrow could be a flickr extension review, and then maybe finish up with scribefire and sage.

    People, just download Flock, have it sat there all singing together nicely in one centrally supported browser, knowing that as it is based on Firefox you can still install all these extensions as well should you wish

21. az1324
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    I just installed this and here is a tip:

    Add an integer preference under about:config named extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode with value 1 if you want the default bookmarking option to be “do not share”

22. seo'brien
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Woohoo! Truly synchronized bookmarks!

23. Andrew
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    Love Delicious but was not happy a month ago when my FF bm’s were imported. I was a fresh install is something messed up. The funny thing about bookmarks is that I never go back to look at them once I bookmark.

24. engtech
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    @Ilya: del.icio.us is only really useful for mashing up with other services. I use it to build link dump posts for my blog, and I’ll be using it for some cool features in the future like notifying my RSS readers when a post is getting dugg, selecting one of my “best of” posts at random.

25. webonics
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    The biggest reason why I switched Favorites services is because Del.icio.us has such a horrible user interface. At least, the site now includes thumbnails (which took an eternity compared to many other services offering that in their UI). But overall, the color scheme and the harsh visual aesthetics drive me way each time that I return to the site. It’s really surprising that Yahoo which does an amazing job of developing user interfaces has let Del.icio.us go to the sidelines for so long after the acquisition. Hire a frickin’ designer!

26. datter
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    del.icio.us is a good idea which blinklist.com does much, much better.

27. Christopher Sisk
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    A note… this extension update forces you to import ALL of your current FF bookmarks into your Del.icio.us account, tho you can set them to “not shared”

    I just spent about 10 minutes cleaning up my Del.icio.us bookmarks. Even though I set it to not share my FF bookmarks, I didn’t like seeing my router, web host panel and other various links thrown into Del.icio.us as well as all my keyword search links and other such things.

    I’m sure the default Mozilla bookmarks (Firefox and Mozilla Links) will soon be the most bookmarked links on del.icio.us.

    I also found the sidebar and button drop-down ‘cluttered’ my browser and I didn’t especially care for the layout. But that’s just my personal opinion.

28. Kenny DiFiore
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    Michael,
    You said you wanted to share bookmarks with just friends but not everyone? Check out the Bookmarkr Module for Netvibes from myStafflink (http://www.mystafflink.com/) Can’t import from del.icio.us yet but soon.

29. joey
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

    I can’t tell the difference (after 30 seconds) with this update. I do love having my bookmarks available (in my browser) on all of my computers - home, work, mac, windows, linux.

    I bailed on Flock a few months back just because of this extension.

30. Xell
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    I just use foxmarks, http://www.foxmarks.com/, perfect for syncing between my PCs… And fast

31. Carson
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    I’ve been using Google Browser Sync and it has been awesome. I use three different computers and now my psaswords and bookmarks are synced flawlessly. I use a bunch of other Google services…so this is perfect for me.

32. Ahmet
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    I’m always been a fan of Del.icio.us. I mostly use it together with stumbleupon, make it full of bookmarks

33. Faisal
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    Latest Google Toolbar does it , and does it very well..

34. Sam Garmon
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    that thing is incredibly slow and everytime I click on my bookmark it disapears - why not just use avant browser with their online bookmark storage - you get all your bookmarks on any computer. avant does not have all the cool tagging and meta features but it’s not stupidly slow like delicious…

35. David Mackey
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    Sweet. I’m downloading the add-on as I type.

36. Neil Kelty
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Update: I’m going to back to Foxmarks - this is a whole separate bookmarking thing, I want FIREFOX Bookmarks to sync with Del.icio.us bookmarks not Del.icio.us bookmarks to sync with Del.icio.us bookmarks in Firefox - that doesn’t help me much.

37. SC
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    Hi, I am the same as Xell using Foxmarks and it’s really easy and fast to sync…

    But maybe I should try Del.icio.us too…

38. Tippy Hedren
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    I agree with others that Firefox is slow. Painfully slow. And in terms of stability feels like Windows 3.1 Visual Basic 3 programs from 1994, that feeling that the program is going to seize up and crash at any minute. To boot I don’t get why the UI has to look and feel so weird no matter whether it’s Windows or Mac, which is to say not native and generally shakey, again that VB3 experience. People put up with a lot using Firefox, and any complaints are disregarded as Microsoft fanboyism, so we’re right back to where we were with crappy Netscape 4 which never improved perhaps in part because nobody wanted to hear a negative word about holy holy Netscape. I like delicious integration in Firefox in theory. Not enough to put up with Firefox though. Currently Safari and Opera seem the only browsers — at least on Mac and Windows — worth using.

39. whoopee
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    oh i hear the same old chorus of, let me guess, MAC USERS bitching about speed.

    until vista came out, OSX was UNDENIABLY the worst performing consumer os, lagging even xp. vista lowered the bar enough for apple to squeak through. osx is also duking it out with xp and vista for least secure os

    EXPENSIVE GARBAGE

    i will happily put my celeron laptop with 256mb ram running freebsd head to head with any osx laptop available today

    don’t blame firefox for your sucky os

40. whoopee
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    oh and let me add you really have to be part of the inner circle of mac zombies to use safari. don’t even compare this piece of garbage to opera let alone firefox. you probably don’t even want to know how lacking it is compared to ie7 of all things.

41. Drood
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    I love the presumption that everyone actually cares about Delicious… “YOU WILL NOW”…

    *BUZZ* Wrong. Let’s look behind the door, and see what you could have won…

42. mrka
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    if you guys want a fast way to sync your firefox bookmarks just use foxmarks… it is easily the best extension there is. i’ve tried del.icio.us and to be honest, it just plain sucks.

    foxmarks is the way to go.
    get it here: http://www.foxmarks.com/

    peace

43. mrshl
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Del.icio.us is not a Foxmarks replacement or competitor. If you have 600 or 1000 bookmarks, Foxmarks just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Foxmarks can’t sort by tag. Foxmarks doesn’t allow you to share your bookmarks with others in your network. Foxmarks doesn’t let you make linkrolls using tags. Or publish feeds of your bookmarks via RSS.

    I like Foxmarks. It’s a great product. But it is not a substitute for Del.icio.us.

44. timno
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    What no I.E. support? do they have similar one for internet exploreR?

45. Otis Gospodnetic
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    Simpy has had something much like this add-on for a little while, too - it’s called Smarky and can be had from http://www.simpy.com/ff/simpy-0.9.4-fx.xpi . It keeps your Firefox bookmarks in sync with Simpy, makes excellent use of tags to form dynamic tag-derived “folders”, supports drag and drop, has good in-browser search functionality (hit Home Home quickly and a search dialog that searches as you type pops up), and can also run the search against Simpy via its API…. there are a ton of other features. A long list of features and some screenshots can be seen at http://groups.google.com/group/smarky . People who use it love it.

46. Otis Gospodnetic
    

    April 5th, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    Michael: You’re not alone. I hear people complain about del.icio.us speed a lot, too. Del.icio.us used to be listed in that left column on http://www.grabperf.com/ before, but now I realize I haven’t seen it there in a while. Have a look at this: http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/.....s-etc.html .

47. adam
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 2:34 am

    I love del.icio.us i have imported my bookmarks to blue dot.

48. Fried Toast
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 3:23 am

    Tried the Del.icio.us add-on awhile back and it destroyed my Foxmarked bookmarks. Found an older version that lets me tag pages and that’s as far as I’ll let it go now.

    First time, shame on you. Second time, shame on me.

    Foxmarks for me.

49. Brian
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 4:31 am

    Hey Moron,

    You can share links w/ just the people in your network.
    It’s even provided w/ the plugin that you obviously know nothing about.

    1. Mark it private.
    2. tag it w/ “for:NetworkBuddyName”
    3. Get a brain.

    Idiot,
    – Brian

50. Eliot
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 4:55 am

    I use del.icio.us on a daily basis, but I really don’t like the new Firefox extension at all, so I run the old extension on all of my machines. I use del.icio.us as a storage and retrieval bin for links, and I don’t like having it take over my bookmarks menu _and_ my bookmarks bar which I use to access pretty much everything.

    That’s kind of moot though because I’m now using Camino as my primary browser, and the only option there is the bookmarklet- which does just what I want anyway.
    That, and I added del.icio.us to the search box so I can search my bookmarks, and already I find it more useful and less invasive than the extension.

    Ma.gnol.ia looks nice but I haven’t switched yet because del.icio.us is more ubuquitous and it does the job well enough for now. I’ve wound up with an unholy amount of tags, though, and no good way to manage them.

51. Mike @ Emerging Earth
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 5:11 am

    Can’t use this. Too much porn in my Firefox bookmarks.

52. Anshul
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    This is a nice upgrade. Was waiting for this.

53. Shalini Raghavan
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:03 am

    I like your suggestion about the option to share bookmarks with friends. But just from a social / nw perspective, does that pave the way for ideas to stay restricted within small groups. Just a thought !!

54. ConceptNeo
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:14 am

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    visit website : http://www.conceptneo.com

55. ConceptNeo
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:15 am

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    visit website : http://www.conceptneo.com

56. Rene Kriest
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:27 am

    I finally found an option in the advanced settings of the delicious plugin to get back my old FF bookmarks.

    Two things I dislike about delicious plugin:

    - that you cannot select a setting so that your bookmarks are stored by default in the private section
    - you cannot mass store bookmarks like in the FF panel

    Regards,

    René
    ProBloggerWorld

57. Anthony
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:39 am

    I’m actually not a fan of this one, as I prefer the del.icio.us 1.2 extension to manage my bookmarks. The integration is nice if you want/need it, but my uses it’s too much overhead and browser real-estate.

58. zzzTimbo
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:41 am

    I used to use Flock with Favorites tied in to del.icio.us. Then I switched to Flock tied in to Shadows. Shadows has a little preview image of the site. Finally, I discovered stumbleupon (SU) and have relied on it exclusively for bookmark management. I use the SU toolbar regularly to email links to webpages to friends.

59. Rich Kahmer
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:42 am

    Anyone have thoughts on social bookmarking and SEO? I don’t see it, but I’m looking for other opinions.
    Thanks!

60. pallet jack
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 6:43 am

    - ummmm

    - That guy who talks about - keeping bookmarks on 50 catagorized text docs ..

    umm that is lame.. - honestly dude .. whoa! - RB

61. aBushLie
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 7:00 am

62. Michael Locker MD
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:04 am

    Cool.

    Michael Locker MD

63. Otis Gospodnetic
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:11 am

    zzzTimbo:
    Shadows is dead.

    Rich Kahmer:
    social bookmarks and SEOs — the love is not mutual, at least in case of Simpy, where anti-spammer mechanisms are aggressive and catch SEOs fairly well and often. Ask Jason Calacanis about SEOs.

64. Anil Petra
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:15 am

    It’s not integration of Del.icio.us until I can view my tag cloud in a side bar.

65. Anil Petra
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    This new, supposedly improved, plug-in just took away my single-click icon to open the de.licio.us site, which is now a couple of clicks and a large mouse-move away. The “integration” is just awful, not a replacement for going to the site, not in the slightest.

66. bil h
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    Nice tool
    are there some news and rss plugins ?

67. Peter
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 8:50 am

    OK, all in favor of manually organized link text files instead of del.icio.us auto-bookmark-tagging-and-noting (simply select some descriptive text on the page before you bookmark it!), say “aye”. Now everyone who uses “foxmarks” which is almost but not quite the same thing, say “aye”. Lastly, everyone bashing Macs as slow who are comparing their latest Dell POS running windoze or *nix (maybe you missed the memo, but *nix is STILL fugly and hard to work with, dude) to some old Mac G4, say “aye”. Congratulations, you all FAIL at the Internet! Please turn in your wireless cards.

68. Vikram
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 11:31 am

    I liked this tool …. does it supports RSS ?

69. Rani Raj
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 11:59 am

    Yes this is a good tool…

70. EV
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    searching in bookmarks at del.icio.us is still very slow, bluedot few times faster when searching, that was the reason why i switched to bluedot and that’s the reason to wait with switching back to del.icio.us

71. Joshua Kaufman
    

    April 6th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    Anyone know if there’s a way to import MyWeb bookmarks into delicious wtih tags intact?

72. John
    

    April 7th, 2007 at 7:11 am

    Blinklist (www.blinklist.com) s*its all over del.icio.us. I have no idea why del.icio.us is still so popular.

73. ron angel
    

    April 7th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    I just do it including copying manually much simpler there is also a very good program called linkstash that does the job very well.
    http:/www.ssrichardmontgomery.com

74. Dean
    

    April 7th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    Right on, I’m switching from Google Bookmarks now that it is integrated into Firefox. Your right about the speed increase, Delicious used to be a slug but is now quick.

75. SEO Glasgow
    

    April 9th, 2007 at 9:54 am

    I’ve been using the plugin for months without speed issues - what’s in the update?

    What I want to be able to do and still don’t appear to be able to is filter the results by tag, i.e. type “seo”, and see only seo results, then add ” tools”, giving you “SEO tools”, and see only those bookmarks tagged with both seo and tools.

    Is this possible?

    Cheers

76. Steven
    

    April 9th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    I haven’t used delicious very often, but I’ll try it now.

77. MagnoliaSouth
    

    April 10th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    #75: Yes, it is. Try typing seo+tools (no spaces) and voila! It works.

78. evbart
    

    April 11th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    Diigo is the way to go: http://www.diigo.com/

    Lets you share in groups, stores archived copy, lets you comment, and will also store the bookmarks to del.icio.us for you automatically, just in case del.icio.us catches up.

79. chrjs
    

    April 12th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    Try also Quick Bookmarks: http://www.quickboomarks.com.

    It is not a social tool, but it is better then others in personal bookmarks organization and as RSS feed aggregator.

80. chrjs
    

    April 12th, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Sorry, the correct link is: http://www.quickbookmarks.com

81. Russell Rockefeller
    

    April 15th, 2007 at 8:13 am

    I’m looking for any and all information to be had in regard to deli.cio.us and related competitors and social bookmarking impact on search engine relevency and so on.

82. Motorcycle Guy
    

    April 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    I might try this out, it might be a worthy replacement to google browser sync. I love how google browser sync mirrors not only my bookmarks between laptop and pc, but also the password etc.

83. Bali Seo
    

    April 26th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    I ‘ve used deli.cio.us recently since read your post … great info