It would be interesting to discover what affect having a site with a respectable Delicious rating will have on positioning in the organic SERPs.

Does it elevate the rankings for competitive keywords?

Does the text used in the description affect Yahoo’s algos for those search terms?

it will be good, as Web 1.0 version is very simple and boring

Simple is good, and it maybe boaring but I find it very useful.

I think any DotCom company should see Incremental Innovation every Month and Disruptive innovation every six months to 1 Year.

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

Expecting it to supporting OpenID (and OAuth) — hopefully.

Can someone explain to me what draws people to this site? There has been built in bookmark organizers in every browser since their invention. Why do I need an online version?

Jason,

It lets you get your bookmarks on other computers via the net, rather than leaving your bookmarks behind on a single computer. The bookmark organizers included with browsers are great, but I personally use three different computers regularly and keeping my bookmarks synced is a problem I don’t need.

Discovery based on good-size network effect.

@Jason
Two things, at least for me. a) I can access my bookmarks from any computer, and b) the social factor; it’s pretty easy to find new and interesting sites by checking the popular sections for a specific tag, or even the homepage.

@Jason

You can even store browser macros on del.icio.us:

http://del.icio.us/imacros/imacro

I use the del.icio.us/iMacros combination to store my 40+ website logins online.

Jason, for me there are 2 main reasons…

1. Remote access to bookmarks
2. Organization!!! The tagging feature makes organization of the massive amount of bookmarks I have so much easier!

Off-topic

I’m very sorry for this off topic.

In italy students and professors of “La Sapienza - Rome” university protested against obscurantism of the pope Benedict XVI, they exercized only a constitutional right of speech(article 21th of the italian constitution). The Vatican media establishment created a false propaganda to target the credibility of these students and professors.
An online petition has been then created to support students and professors and to support the right of speech and the right of thinking not only in italy, where Galileo Galilei was born, but even in all the nations that face the religious attempt of create a teocratic system.
If you are interested please read and sign the petiton at:
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Thanks

Like another comment above, I have never understood the rationale of all the hype about Delicious; may be it’s of some use to wandering geeks but an average person couldn’t care less.

I just don’t care when we get Delicious 2.0!!!

Bookmark is very important for me.

I’m looking forward to seeing it given my belief del.icio.us has so much more potential. Here’s a post I did recently on how it could be a cool search engine:

http://www.markevanstech.com/2.....delicious/

I want in!

http://simongeorgeinc.googlepages.com

My favourite geek-fix service. Delicious mix of bookmarking and social value is just second to none. Bring on 2.0 — just no need for pastels, gradients and featurebloat!

Hopefully they’ve added some more mobile features.

When we launched Mobilicio.us almost 2 years ago, I really expected Yahoo! to add better mobile support in a few months tops. I think my quote was, “If I could code this in one week, Yahoo! should be able to code this in 2 months at least.”

http://mobilicio.us/www

Our site might still be useful to folks with older phones though since we optionally run the links through Google’s mobile transcoder, which makes strips websites down to view on a small screen. I don’t think Yahoo! has anything like this yet.

@6 && @13

I saw the hype with Delicious and was turned off as well.

I am loath to click on links my friends IM me at work, and even links some coworkers send me via corporate e-mail. Those links I found interesting, I would just compile into an e-mail and send it to my home e-mail for viewing later.

When delicious came out with the firefox plug-in, I took the plunge and discovered how easy it was to just add links there for home viewing. Currently, that’s all I use it for. I know it’s the tip of the iceberg as far as how useful it is, but as of now I’m happy in my delicious agoraphobia.

I use delicious and love it - I don’t care too much about the interface as I use live bookmarks in Firefox to view my saved bookmarks..

Also I use http://www.usemime.com for mobile bookmarks - easy to configure when I’m at work for the commute home in the evening!

I also couldn’t understand the fuss about delicious to begin with but then you’re trying to save loads of small articles and tag them into several categories they’re organised neatly right from the outside.

I can also pass on a group of interesting articles really easily by sending them a link to my delicious tag URL rather than listing a bunch in an email.

Although I’m far from a tech geek I like the minimalist interface which is part of the site’s charm. Don’t Web 2.0ify it too much Yahoo!

I need to make up my mind. I keep switching from Delicious to Magnolia and now possibly back. Magnolia has done a great job of late in embracing standards where as delicious seemed to be asleep at the wheel.

If we see things moving again at Yahoo when will Mybloglog get updated. It is the perfect app to become an openid provider.

John Furrier at furrier.org has been saying that it’s opensocial coming from yahoo…

http://furrier.org/2008/01/17/.....ll-openid/

he’s been posting a ton about yahoo since ces

I have 5000 bookmarks and found Delicious plugin hung Firefox every few minutes for 10-15 seconds. Couldn’t find any way to fix it so uninstalled. Anyone else with large bookmark file issues?

Even though I don’t use it myself, Delicious is great for finding related information to what I’m looking for. It’s a way of fuzzing out search terms such that I can see something like “People who bookmarked this site also bookmarked…”

But really, back to the important stuff, like the Pope.

I used to use delicious but the interface and lack of certain features threw me off. I’ve since switched to trying out both http://ma.gnolia.com and http://netrocket.com - loving both of them actually. Both have different features that I enjoy.

For those that don’t understand the hype, delicious is more about social bookmarking than just saving bookmarks. You can see what your friends have bookmarked and pick up interesting things that you might have missed. It’s also a good place to search when you’re looking for general information on a specific topic (like “python” or “soccer”). It’s more about sharing bookmarks than storing your own (but it’s great for both)

For a long time I couldn’t understand the hype either. Then I started using it, got overwhelmed and carried away. Then totally forgot about it for a long while, and rediscovered it. Delicious is a great tool for organizing links without being restricted to one computer. But although the minimalistic interface is not all bad, I would like for yahoo to make a move to innovate a little. I’m sure they’re doing their best, but it’s sure taking a while…

Subscribing to a tag, for instance, will cause you to receive certain links dozens of times, every time it is tagged by anyone. Even if that link is already in your own list! Such kind of things could (and should) be filtered a little to avoid overload.

I have several 100’s of links over there, but I dare not look at it until they finally begin to improve the service. So, I’m excited to hear they’re planning to share something new with us.

It took me two attempts to get into using Delicious, but the second time around I was hooked. I was working on a project related to sonic branding. So I was saving some links on the topic. When you save a link it shows you who else has also saved it. So I clicked on a few names related to a shared link and found someone in Germany that had dozens of amazing links on sonic branding, so so much I hadn’t found on my own at that point [and I had dozens of sites saved already]. Research = done.

I also use it for watching trends by watching what’s popular, viewing the recently saved page and noting how many people have saved a specific link.

The other big use of the site I have is the subscription feature. You can select tags and have a feed of those tags updated anytime someone saves a page and tags it with “Sonic Branding” or whatever your topic of choose is you will see it.

One benefit of the site you should keep in mind is that anything found on the site is there because someone thought it was worth saving - a bot didn’t simply find the topic searching the web and add it to search results.

If you just want a basic bookmark service [it is still great for that], but the real value in the site only becomes evident if you expect more of it as well.

For people asking why they should use a social bookmarking service, here is a list:

http://www.simpy.com/faq#whySimpy

You can also add to that:
- when was the last time you backed up your bookmarks?

- can you find that bookmark about XYZ you saved in 2007 in your browser’s bookmark category mess?

- etc.

The more you bookmark stuff, the more useful delicious and similar services get. Things don’t fall neatly into unique categories, so when you have 100s of bookmarks, it’s not easy to find the right one, since it can be in multiple places.

Say, for example, that I want to see all the journal articles on economical anthropology I’ve bookmarked. I simply type in my browser address field

http://del.icio.us/tag/journal.....+economics

You only need to get in the habit of tagging the links you bookmark. It really pays off!

I wrote the link incorrectly in the previous post. The link above displays everybody’s public bookmarks. You can apply similar notation for your own bookmarks by substituting the word “tag” with your username:

http://del.icio.us/hwileniu/jo.....+economics

lets see what’s new they are going to add, I hope it will be good…..

i love delicious. i use it every day almost.
Another that I like very much is http://koolontheweb.com

Does it have any other function rather than bookmarking and sharing sites??? Then why are they wasting time in updating it? Let it be simple as it looks better now.

Does it have any other function other than bookmarking and sharing sites??? Then why are they wasting time in updating it? Let it be simple as it looks better now.

Prepare to be disappointed.

I find Delicious a valuable tool in my daily web life and work. It’s a great way to share industry related information with colleagues, peers and like minds without bugging them with an email or an I.M. As well as for keeping track of articles I want to return to at a later date when I have more time. Personally I’m interested to see what this new release does differently if but I also find the current incarnation works just fine for me.

The new design looks nice and all, but are they going to fix the things that are wrong with the service now? I mean, it can take HALF A DAY to import your bookmarks from FF or IE - that’s insane! Especially considering the 5MB file size limit, which is something that keeps me from using the service anymore. And the use of spaces to separate tags instead of commas is beyond irritating. I don’t want to have to WriteMyTagsLikeThis or like_this, it’s counterintuitive and fugly looking.

It’s the features I’m interested in, not the shiny new interface and crappy name change.