Delicious, the social bookmarking site that was largely responsible for making ‘tagging’ one of the defining elements in today’s web, has turned 5. The site launched back in 2003 and was one of the first companies to be profiled on TechCrunch. In December 2005 the site had its big payday when it was acquired by Yahoo, and has racked up 5.3 million users since launch.
The last year has been rough for delicious. In September 2007, we got a sneak peek at Delicious 2.0, a complete-code rewrite of the site that was due to introduce a more intuitive interface and some new features. In January this year there were hints on the Delicious blog that the release was imminent, but nothing materialized. By June - a full 9 months after our initial preview - Delicious 2.0 was still nowhere to be seen.
A week later delicious founder Joshua Schachter resigned from Yahoo, explaining that he had been largely sidelined by management. Finally, in July 2008, Delicious finally released the overhaul. As we’ve noted before, it’s a shame Schachter wasn’t around for the launch.
Now that Delicious 2.0 is finally out the door, here’s to hoping the company can correct its management issues and keep going strong, even without its founder at the helm. For more check out Yahoo’s announcement and the delicious blog.
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Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon = Top 3 best social bookmarking sites.
—Schwabe
I give flickr the credit for tagging
Just like I give youtube the credit for embeddable widgets
The first link to delicious is broken (goes to http://www.delicious)
Got it, thanks.
Wow…happy birth Delicious!
hard to believe how a system designed to help and organize content could have one of the most geriatric disconbobulated domains on the planet. good thing were not seeing alot of copycats. they have definitely cornered the market.
BirthdayLocator.com
and can we have this spammer banned for good? please
Yahoo can’t keep itself going, let alone the myriad other companies it has acquired over the years. Delicious is sinking just like Yahoo and as long as Jerry Yang is at the helm I doubt anything will change. Not every company is blessed with a Jedi master like Emperor Steve.
why hasn’t anyone tried to build a recommendation engine on top of delicious (and digg etc) yet?
One of the best social bookmarking sites.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
Out of all the social media sites, I think Delicious is the least appealing, design-wise. StumbleUpon will come out on top.
http://www.RantBlogger.com
u sure haven’t seen del.icio.us lately. And simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I love using Delicious and the 2.0 upgrade was very beneficial (including removing that odd domain name as the default). I love the combination of my Delicious account with Firefox using the official add-in.
At least here Yahoo must be happy.
http://www.jokecricket.com
DEL.ICIO.US would be better off SEO wise with FAV.ORIT.ES!
Is it me or was DEL.ICIO.US > DELICIOUS.COM? I hate new UI
Yeah, old UI was better!
Yeah, that much vaunted “overhaul” just made the service harder to use. How exactly is making visited and unvisited links indistinguishable “more intuitive”? I used to be on the site several times a day, now it’s more like once a week.
Delcicious kills it on the lists.
…or rather Delicious.
Stop hatin. Delicious is dope.
Delicious and iMacros are the only (bookmark-related) extensions I need for my Firefox. I almost forgot about traditional bookmarking
Actually Delicious had its fifth birthday a while ago, in september, mostly unnoticed.
nda
I use Delicious to store links that I think I might need later, but I’ve never considered it to be a place to store my actual everyday bookmarks. It just isn’t integrated tightly enough with Firefox. I use Foxmarks because of it’s tight integration with Firefox and easy autosyncing. It just syncs the bookmarks file, so there’s no need to fiddle around with buttons or tags. Also, tagging “everyday” bookmarks seems pretty pointless. What’s the point of tagging my Facebook bookmark as “social networking” when I only use one social networking site.
Wow, 5 years huh? Thats amazing!Congrats!
Jess
http://www.internet-anonymity.net.tc
Glad to hear Delicious tagging the web is successful.
Its great to get tips from the best!
I’m a tagger too.
thanks from tony
Holy crap, 5 years! Congrats Delicious.
Wow. 5 (going on 6) years and credited as the inventor of modern tagging. Hopefully they’ll stick around and continue to grow (unlike the “late” GeoCities!)