October 20, 2009

New Delicious Registrations Require Yahoo! ID; Twitter OAuth Support Added

New registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking site.

For now, existing Delicious members can use their current login process. In the future, those accounts will be merged with Yahoo! ID accounts.

Delicious also has added Twitter OAuth support. Go to your Delicious settings page and authorize Twitter. This will prevent constant sign-ins in order to Tweet a Delicious bookmark.

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 5:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

October 1, 2009

Delicious Updates: Search Refinements, iPhone Optimization, Graphs and Sharing

Social bookmarking site Delicious (owned by Yahoo!) has released another slew of updates. Check 'em out:

Search Refinements - Previously, you could refine searches by time down to 1 day. Now, you can refine down to 5 minutes.

iPhone Optimization - Delicious has optimized m.delicious.com for iPhone users.

Graphs - URL details and the Tagometer badge (a widget for sites and blogs) are now getting visual representation of their data

Sharing - Who you've shared your bookmarks with will now show up under your tags for a bookmarked item.

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 3:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

August 4, 2009

Delicious Updates with New Search, Email and Tweet Features

Social bookmarking site Delicious, which is owned by Yahoo!, has been updated with some snazzy new features to make your bookmarking experience easier.

New search tools have been added that allow you to search a given date range and/or filter down by tag. Search results will also display rich media content for sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Yelp.

Next up, a new category has been added to the homepage called "Fresh Bookmarks." This shows recent bookmarks that are also trending on Twitter. Notice how the number of Tweets is listed below a bookmark:

If you want the old Delicious, just click on "Popular Bookmarks."

Last but not least, if you want to share a bookmark off Delicious, you now have the ability to email or Tweet the link directly from Delicious.

What do you think of these Delicious updates? Share your thoughts below.

Posted by Nathania Johnson at 11:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

August 4, 2006

Get Your del.icio.us Network Badge

The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new del.icio.us feature that makes it easier for people to connect and share bookmarks. The feature is named Network Badges, they basically shows others "your user name on del.icio.us with a link to your bookmarks, how many people you have in your network, how many fans you have, as well as a link others can use to easily add you to their own del.icio.us networks."

If you are interested, here is my network badge, keep in mind, I personally don't use del.icio.us all that much.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 10:19 AM | Permalink

July 25, 2006

Yahoo Invests In Social Search Research

Reuters reports Yahoo hired Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan as vice president and Yahoo research fellow. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a well-respected database expert who has joined Yahoo to study "links between computer and human-aided Web search." Honestly, I am excited what this can potentially mean for social search. Yahoo has so many properties that can be tightly integrated with social search; Flickr, Del.io.us, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Video, web search, desktop search, Yahoo Groups and so on.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:31 AM | Permalink

May 25, 2006

del.icio.us Adds Most Popular Links On Home Page

del.icio.us announced that they have made the del.icio.us popular page more visible by adding the content of the page, in the form of a "hot list" to the del.icio.us home page. So, now when you visit http://del.icio.us/ you will see "the del.icio.us hotlist" featured with hourly updates from the popular page. SEOs & SEMs will soon report how much of an impact this change will have in traffic and link bait retrieval, until then, it is hard to know.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:11 AM | Permalink

May 12, 2006

del.icio.us Adds Inline Editing

The del.icio.us blog announced that they have added a few more features, including inline bookmark editing and prettier URLs. The changes enable users "edit and arrange your bookmarks much more quickly" and enhance the ability to "get at the conversation around the links." More details at the del.icio.us blog.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:58 AM | Permalink

April 28, 2006

Your Network Added To del.icio.us - Yahoo My Web Like Features

del.icio.us announced a new feature they call "your network." You network lets you keep track of your friends most recent bookmarks. You can view your network by clicking on the "your network" link at the top of del.icio.us or by going here. How do you add friends to view their bookmarks in your network? Just click on their usernames and you will see a link at the top that reads "add [username] to your network." This is very Yahoo My Web like, is Yahoo building out two different My Webs?

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 11:08 AM | Permalink

December 10, 2005

Del.icio.us (or is it Yahoo.licio.us?) Bookmarks Come to the Google Sidebar; Indeed.com Also Now Sidebar Accessible

So, your a Del.icio.us or is it now "Yahoo.licio.us" bookmarks user and you also use the Google Desktop Sidebar. Well, thanks to a new plug-in by Manas Tungare for the Google Desktop Sidebar, you can have your Del.icio.us bookmarks on your sidebar. It's a beta, freeware. Download and learn more about it here. According to the website, "Bookmarks that you use often are automatically displayed higher in the list. (You can, of course, reset the usage data via the options dialog.) If you want certain favorites to stay at the top of list, you can 'pin' them there."

Since we're on the topic of new sidebar plugins which seem to be coming fast and furious, a new Indeed.com (the metasearch job search database) is now accessible via the Google Sidebar. Details here.

Posted by Gary Price at 11:53 PM | Permalink

December 9, 2005

Tag It: Acquisition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us

Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets in the community building, tagging, and folksonomy arena. Accordingly, we've learned that del.icio.us has now been acquired by Yahoo. Financial terms were not disclosed but Joshua Schachter, del.icio.us founder writes:

...we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web.

Schachter (congrats, btw) goes on to call Flickr, also part of Yahoo, the fraternal twin of del.icio.us. Twin, maybe. But first cousin might be better. There is a difference between tagging an image (some, but little descriptive (type of camera, location, etc.) data readily available vs. tagging a textual document. Of course, companies like Riya might also change the nature of image tagging. This post (near the bottom) has links to several items about the auto tagging images. Even a demo or two. Also worth noting is that about a week ago, Microsoft received a patent in this area.

From the sound of it, Zawodny was helpful in getting both sides together. More in this official Yahoo Blog Post.

So, what will Yahoo do with del.icio.us? Well, no specifics here but how about some speculation (what the blogosphere is all about) and random thoughts.

+ Merge del.icio.us into MyWeb 2.0 and call it MyWeb 3.0 or Yahool.icio.us? This would help grow the MyWeb user base that Greg Linden pointed out earlier this week appears to be small. + Would doing this upset the current del.icio.us user base? + Merge MyWeb, del.icio.us, Flickr, and Yahoo 360 into a single service. Would it make marketing easier? What about more disgruntled Flickr users? + Yahoo needs to remember that marketing and explaining each service to new users (the non 2% of early adopters) will be a challenge. + Do they want to continue developing and promoting two somewhat similar services + Keep del.icio.us as its own service? It's another place to put ads. + Merge MyWeb with del.icio.us and place Schachter and his knowledge of social tagging as the person in charge? + Use MyWeb, Flickr, and del.icio.us and work to unify terms for better suggested terms when tagging?

Like we say all the time only time will tell. I could break into a paragraph about tagging, who tags, its value, etc. but it's Friday afternoon and I'm very tired. More later.

Thanks to Steve R. for the tip.

Posted by Gary Price at 2:34 PM | Permalink

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