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Delicious predates all the social media hype and is probably better thought of as "Web 2.0" application. Basically, it's Flickr for URLs. It's just a dead simpl
by jsdalton 15y ago
Delicious predates all the social media hype and is probably better thought of as "Web 2.0" application. Basically, it's Flickr for URLs. It's just a dead simple way of saving and tagging URLs. The social aspect is more of an ancillary benefit, the idea being that when you get millions of people organizing links by tag, some interesting structures start to emerge...e.g. you can generate something like a tag cloud for the entire web.
If the above analysis sounds dated, that's because it is. Conceptually, Delicious is really an app straight out of 2006. But like Flickr, it's one of the handful that's worth having around in more or less original form.
The key to grokking Delicious btw is that it's not for "bookmarks" like the ones you probably have on your Bookmark Bar in Chrome right now. It's for articles or links of interest that you might want to reference later. Presumably there are other services that do or claim to do this better, but I have yet to find one that's stripped down to the same level of usefulness as Delicious.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoThat is exactly how I used it. I've since moved on to Pinboard in the great Yahoo! scare of '10 and am very happy there. One of my favorite features is emailing myself URLs from my iDevice. I've never really cared what others are bookmarking, as I've found Google has traditionally been just as good as a big group of anonymous people at telling me what to look at. Cross-link that with people I follow on Twitter and it might get interesting, though...
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- ghshephard 15y agoThanks - that was a great description. After having missed it for the last umpteen years, I've created a Delicious account and have started using it.
- starwed 15y agoThe way Firefox currently works makes that redundant -- I don't have a menu or toolbar full of bookmarks, I just star pages I'm interested in so I can find them through the "awesomebar" later. And of course it syncs across Firefox installs, including my Droid.
- neovive 15y agoExactly! As much I have tried to switch back to browser bookmarks, syncing and other social tools, nothing seems to do the job as well as Delicious. The browser integrations are very fast and the overall implementation is extremely simple.