Update: See my updated post on del.icio.us, “More Stats on Del.icio.us, This Time Positive“ It’s been nearly eight months since Del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo, and it is still the reigning champion of social bookmarking. But the recent numbers aren’t looking so good. In fact, by some measures they’ve tanked completely. Comscore shows U.S. unique visitors and page… → Read More
There have been numerous 2005 “best of” and 2006 “predictions” posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I’m not going to write one of those. Giving out “best of” awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I’ve been blogging all of six months. And while predictions are fun, they aren’t all that useful in the end. What I do… → Read More
I just got off an instant message conversation with Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us. I was asking him for any comment on the Yahoo acquisition rumors and he pointed me to the del.icio.us blog. Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us, which has approximately 300,000 users: y.ah.oo! We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to… → Read More
Del.icio.us just put up a completely new site. Recent bookmarks on the left, popular bookmarks on the right. It’s about time. Nice one, Joshua. Logged In: Logged Out: Thanks for the tip Brian. → Read More
Three sites I use often are Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us/popular. If you want to find out what’s hot right now on the Internet, those sites will tell you (although Memeorandum usually gets the news even before these sites). I saw a blurb on Programmable Web about DiggDot.us, which launched yesterday. Diggdot.us combines results from all three of those sites into one very clean interface. → Read More
In addition to the robust and open search functionality released by Del.icio.us earlier this week, there are at least two additional new features that are worth noting. I also have a few more thought on the search function below. Media Player Del.icio.us has built a media player directly into the site. If you find a link to a MP3 file, a small icon appears to the left of the bookmark that can be… → Read More
Fred Wilson reports that Del.icio.us has extended its existing user-only search to everyone. Previously search was available only if you were logged in to your del.icio.us account. Check it out on any del.icio.us page, including here. Joshua Schachter has not yet written about this on the del.icio.us blog. Search functionality has also been expanded. In addition to showing your own results in… → Read More
Google has quietly launched a nascent bookmarking and tagging product as a feature to search history. It’s not “social” bookmarking, like del.icio.us, because bookmarks are not public and cannot be shared among users. The product also requires way too many steps to create a bookmark. To bookmark a site, make sure your google search history is turned on. Click “search… → Read More
Del.icio.us turned two years old on September 15, 2005. Happy Birthday, and Congratulations Joshua! → Read More
Company: Del.icio.us Previous Posts: August 15, 2005, July 10, 2005 and June 16, 2005 This is definitely filed under the rumor category, but two people have separately pointed out to me a public del.icio.us link by Fred Wilson (user’s links are posted under the URL del.icio.us/[username]). Fred links to a del.icio.us toolbar Firefox Extension called Very Delicious (see below). In the notes… → Read More
Company: Del.icio.us Previous Posts: July 10, 2005 and June 16, 2005 Overview: Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking service (see previous profiles above), launched two new important features recently – Recomendations and Search. Both of these features are much needed tools to help users find tagged URIs. These tools will greatly assist users in researching related tags and to find good, related… → Read More
Service: Collaborative Rank Launched: August 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia What is it? Collaborative Rank is an experiment created by The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It is a search engine front end for Del.icio.us bookmarks. The search engine is heavily influenced by what they describe as the “Top 500″ del.icio.us taggers. This doesn’t just look at who… → Read More
Company: Deli.cio.us (new feature) Previous Profile: June 16, 2005 What’s new? Josh Schachter (the creator of del.icio.us) announced new “tags for two” functionality yesterday. It allows direct bookmarket notification to a person, to suggest they see specific content. We first noticed a trend towards people using del.icio.us as a recommendation engine about a month ago. Fred… → Read More
Service: Extisp.icio.us Launched: June 2005 What is it? Extispicious has two tools built on the back of delicious (profile) data: one for viewing a random scattering of a user’s delicious tags, sized according to number of times used by that user, and another for viewing a random set of yahoo images based on search results for that user’s tags. View Tag Scattering… → Read More
Service: Del.icio.us Direc.tor Launched: June 22, 2005 What is it? del.icio.us direc.tor is an Ajax client-side bookmarklet application that, in the words of LifeHacker, “turns the Del.icio.us bookmark service into a gorgeous, lively, dynamic application that just about popped the eyeballs right out of my head.” From the site: “It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern… → Read More
Company: Deli.cio.us Launched: early 2004 Funding: Seed funding in early April, 2005 (rumored $2 millionish) by Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Kopelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young. What is it? Deli.cio.us is also one of the defining web 2.0 applications. It was created by Joshua Schachter. Delicious made… → Read More
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