Yahoo’s inability to launch Delicious 2.0, which was feature complete and in private beta back in September 2007, has become a bit of a joke around Silicon Valley.
Last month we called on Yahoo to provide guidance on when we might see the new version of the service. In a blog post today, the Delicious team says to get ready for the new version, it’s “almost ready.”
We heard this all before. In January the Delicious blog strongly suggested a launch was imminent, but it never came. We heard from sources inside the company that the issue was an inability to scale the product properly. Some team members suggested caching of bookmark data to reduce the load on the database servers. Others thought a fresh set of database queries were needed every time a user pulled up a page on Delicious. Since that page lists every tag they’ve ever used, the site crawled.
It’s unlikely the team would head fake us again with a blog post unless they were really sure it was time to turn on Delicious 2.0 for everyone. It’s just too bad that Delicious founder Joshua Schachter left the company before he was able to see it go live.
More screen shots of Delicious 2.0 are here.
If TechCrunch is doubting it, it probably won’t happen. http://blabtech.blogspot.com
What’s wrong with the current Delicious? It mean it still works!
Maybe it’s a good thing Yahoo! has lost most of it’s top brass. At least they can start afresh now.
That in reference to the post above means another chance to gain a better decision making capability and cutting down on delays.
They could have been at Delicious 4.0 by now..
A fresh start is always a good thing. Maybe this will help improve the services and more.
Will be nice to see if there’s been any development since last time.
It would be great to add a real time, auto updating SPY feature - like Digg has.
Also more archives of most popular bookmarks of all time
What has been taking them so long to go 2.0?? Delicious is probably the only one left at 1.0 nowadays..
Just wanted to remind everyone that Delicious 2.0 was built on Symfony, a free full-stack framework for PHP that I also used to develop W3Counter. It’s an amazingly high-quality product of a community of genius programmers from around the world. The best open source code I’ve ever worked with.
I hope 2.0 comes out real soon because the style (and feature set) they have currently is severely lacking with today’s standards.
Can anyone answer this - how does Delicious make any money? I’ve never seen any adverts on their website and also it’s not integrated in anyway to Yahoo search (yet). Thanks
stupid yahoo
It’s either JIT or too late. Here are some del.icio.us stats/charts showing declining traffic and usage:
http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/.....South.html
who cares? del.icio.us does everything i need it to right now. since the day i started using it, it has been perfect for me. what do i need some gay glassy icons for? del.icio.us 2.0 can F off. i’ll take 1.0, kthnxbai.
Mike, the warning that they will log people out and so oen has to know their username and password is up on del.ico.us accounts.. Looks like Monday launch
no downtime, always there, that’s enough
Delicious is not a great idea when iGoogle provides a portlet named Bookmarks to store your favorites and it can be accessed from anywhere.
Robert
http://www.leapways.com
Predictions? Delicious 2.0: Huge or Minor - http://snurl.com/35y5r [www_thriveorfail_com]
I’ve long switched to Diigo - mostly for the ability to do full text search on saved pages, not just the titles.
Wonder if Del2.0 can beat Diigo…
@Robert
iGoogle?? I just read about a 50 bookmarks per tag limitation. Delicious doesn’t mention any limitation. It’s one of the web’s hard to find truly free services.
@Gabriel
And how they make money? Why make money? Yahoo is very interested in the data they get, they’d probably even pay you for your favorites if there weren’t that many. If Yahoo hadn’t bought delicious then yes it probably would’ve become a limited use version, with pro accounts.
WHo the hell cares about Delicious 2, 3 or 4?
Its still be the most used online bookmarking tool..atleast I love its simple UI and this is the reason of its global widespread usage.
… I agree @jenkins comments who cares, Web 2.0. iPhone 2.0, Mobile 2.0…this “2.0″ thing is getting overhyped
They are taking way too long…
del.ico.us , the 2.0 thing is overhyped i agree
The del.icio.us firefox plugin is a real pain
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How could they not be building an index of tags as a separate table for each user so that when a list of tags is requested you have a very small query and a very fast response? This is really noob stuff, isn’t it?
You want to manage a database with millions of *tables*? That sounds rather insane. There’s no reason to have a separate table for each user. Proper indexing should get pretty close to the same response time (maybe better in some cases) than individual tables, and you have far less maintenance headaches.
Interesting to me that they’ve used Symfony, but not reportedly can’t scale it. I’m not sure I’ve seen too many of the current crop of PHP frameworks that *can* ’scale’ (depending on how you define that term), at least ‘out of the box’. Sure, with heavy modification, perhaps you can scale them, but then you’re off the upgrade track, and you may just as well have built something from scratch. Last time I used it, for any ‘basic’ type page (with session mgt, a few db queries, and other basics) a Symfony page was touching around 200 files. Using a code cache (apc, etc.) helps a lot, but it’s still an inordinate amount of code that was being touched/executed to do rather basic things.
Anyway, it’ll be interesting to hear/read about the tech behind this if/when it comes out, and how well it does scale.
It’s about time or an update.
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thats good to hear
with all the ror fan boys here
Wow, people still use delicious?
Also i read the blog post. Are u sure? I hope finally yes!
wow that good to hear
happy fun
Hopefully it will be good.
Knock delicious all you want. It is still my favourite bookmarking tool because it is so lightweight and non-obtrusive.
I’m keen to see the next version but I do not truthfully care. I will always choose any tool that provides the most value for me (and right now, delicious is it). I’ve been keeping my eye on other services and products — but I crave the simplicity of delicious.
J, http://www.sumolabs.com
LOL, Say what you will, delicious still does and always will totally ROCK! Until at least when Google one day takes it over. We all know Google will one day rule the world!
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
i enjoy delicious because its very basic and i enjoy basic. it was the first of its kind. the only reason digg exists is because of delicious. now if we could all go back to using memepool
haters wanna hate, and i wanna hate the haters!
it makes browser nasty.
I cant see any major changes coming delicious 2.0, tbf no one can even confirm when its going to be lauched……
the current version works just fine for me…..wont be worrying too much about the release of the next one.
the delay of delicious 2.0 simply reflects Yahoo current financial status.
I still can’t wait for Del.icio.us 2.
Hopefully it will be good.
Hopefully it will be good I still can’t wait for Del.icio.us 2.
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