I know we can’t always expect our friends in New York to stay completely up to date on the latest Silicon Valley product developments. But Silicon Alley Insider’s report on a redesign and rebranding at Delicious is just a tad late. Like 6 months late (the screen shot they show is even dated August 2007).
It was announced and shown to the public last September along with word that the entire back end had been rewritten as well. And the rebranding of del.icio.us to delicious? Delicious.com has redirected to del.icio.us for at least a year.
The real question is when this will actually launch. We were teased in January on the delicious blog but the promised update never happend. Now it’s March and Yahoo is still silent on the issue.
Don’t think I’m being too hard on SAI. It’s one of my favorite blogs. And we have a history of friendly jabs at each other.
I wonder if they’re having problems scaling the new code base. Delicious 2.0 is built on the Symfony Framework for PHP, whose only other deployment on this kind of scale is Yahoo! Bookmarks. Delicious likely has much more activity than Yahoo! Bookmarks does.
Dan – yes, they are having problems scaling the new code. absolutely.
SAI had someone at our PARC talk. We sent them to TechCrunch for the screenshots.
well mashable are right there with em http://mashable...licious-revamp/
Michael: Interesting. Inside info? You know this for a fact?
Joshua: Is that really you? (Misspelled last name?)
Michael:
Delicious is not the only one with scaling problems in the social bookmarks world. Check this:
http://blog.sim...Going-Down.html
Otis – not officially. but that is clearly why there has been such a delay.
Michael: juicy, thanks.
Oh snap.
Let’s hope the developers remember to update the Firefox plugins at launch time as I can imagine that the majority of new bookmarks are added directly from the Firefox plugins.
I love insider info.
Hey Mike, see comment #26 on http://www.tech...ly-helps-people
TC has been late to the party on news that NYC has known for a while as well. There are other ways to get tech news in NYC besides SAI, in fact the NY Tech MeetUp (http://newtech.meetup.com/1) has been around since November of 2004 (Yup, that’s before TC even existed) and has grown from a handful of people to almost 6,000 of NY’s tech/startup community… don’t worry, we get our news just fine.
Yeah I’m amazed how Yahoo! has managed to Drop the Ball on Every Web2.0 Co. they bought for a Song* U’d think MicroPOOP had bought them out!!
;PPP
Hmm… is it official?
I like the features of the new site, just hope they can sort things out and move on to the new platform.
Delicious is stuck with Yahoo in a dead end company. I think they were hoping M$ to buy Yahoo.
What ever happened to that Delicious announcement “next week” the delicious blog was talking about over a month ago?
I hope Yahoo! doesn’t make us login to Delicious with our Y! IDs. I hate them.
I’m currently working on a feasibility study for a web application which I intend will tap into del.icio.us. So I’m hoping for two things.
1. A better API.
2. An end to the insanity and the introduction of comma-separated tags.
Leave del.icio.us alone!