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RobKelley · 10 months ago

Interesting article. I remember in 2003 thinking del.icio.us was a byzantine site. Utterly confusing. I thought the same thing about RSS. With RSS, it was just a matter of time before web-based tools became available and so darn easy that people couldn't help but use the feeds.

Del.icio.us has a different problem. It's not the basic concept that's getting in the way--people understand bookmarks. OK, the greater concepts -- Folksonomy and community-based ranking --are hard to use on a daily basis without good tools. The big problem is that del.icio.us is a difficult tool. Digg and Reddit were direct competitors. Right now I like GetGlue.com. But I still love del.icio.us.

By the way, the links in the article are going to delicio.us.com which I don't think is the bookmarking service.

Jschwa · 10 months ago

I think Digg, Reddit, and GetGlue.com all do a better job than Delicious on bubbling up interesting content. Delicious is getting in its own way by trying to compete in this space. If they simplified their message to "free your bookmarks from your browser" I think they would dramatically increase adoption.

angelsoft · 10 months ago

Just saw that you posted about Delicious, me too:
http://lifeinlists.com/2008/12/how-i-use-delici...

Its definitely useful to everyone, but I really don't think its close to being mainstream yet. ReadWriteWeb had some interesting comments here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/delicious_...

And I think they're suggesting that a very wide audience searches using Delicious, but only a narrow technical audience bookmarks using Delicious...

Slingshot RPM · 5 months ago

Delicious is for bookmarking so I guess normal people do have some favorite websites to bookmarked to. I am normal I guess. lol

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Despite the fact that they have dropped the ball for years now, because of their userbase, Delicious is still in the best position to bring online bookmaking to the masses.!

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Ed Hardy Bags · 3 months ago

Yahoo has this with Delicious and it should be their top priority to integrate that rich data set into search engine results!

Poker · 3 months ago

Yahoo has this with Delicious and it should be their top priority to integrate that rich data set into search engine results

Camera Accessories · 3 months ago

Delicious is for bookmarking so I guess normal people do have some favorite websites to bookmarked to. I am normal I guess. lol

amanda peyton · 3 months ago

It's funny that you posted this back in December - listen to TWiT this week - there's a long segment about Yahoo's failure to properly take advantage of/iterate Delicious and Flickr.

Jschwa · 3 months ago

I'm assuming you mean this episode: http://www.twit.tv/206 ? I'm downloading the podcast now, thanks!

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product testing services · 2 months ago

What is delicious.com for? For searching delicious food or for searching important information about products?

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DVF Dresses · 2 months ago

Interesting article. I remember in 2003 thinking del.icio.us was a byzantine site. Utterly confusing. I thought the same thing about RSS. With RSS, it was just a matter of time before web-based tools became available and so darn easy that people couldn't help but use the feeds.

massagers · 2 months ago

I always knew it, that is why I have been using it from last year and a half, it;'s really a great social bookmarking website. I would tell all the sane people to start using it.

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Nice read !

chiropractic training · 2 months ago

There are really some good site for bookmarking Like Reddit and Digg.. I'm not familiar with Delicious, So I guess Delicious have a long way to go to be on the top..

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I agree that delicious is the best social bookmarking tool. Google can't compete in that category.

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Delicious has been a real good bookmarking site..but however, I prefer digg and stumbleupon.

Online credit card processing · 2 months ago

It's funny that you posted this back in December - listen to TWiT this week - there's a long segment about Yahoo's failure to properly take advantage of/iterate Delicious and Flickr.

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Delicious is for bookmarking so I guess normal people do have some favorite websites to bookmarked to. I am normal I guess. lol

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Delicious is for bookmarking so I guess normal people do have some favorite websites to bookmarked to. I am normal I guess. lol

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Well...It's funny that you posted this back in December - listen to TWiT this week - there's a long segment about Yahoo's failure to properly take advantage of/iterate Delicious and Flickr.