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Delicious founder on site's potential: 'The time has passed'

42 points by pitdesi 16y ago

jdp23 16y ago
seems to me there's still plenty of life in the social bookmarking/link-sharing market. Reddit for example seems to be doing quite nicely.
- joshu 16y ago
  Reddit isn't social bookmarking. But I do agree. In the case of Delicious, however, the original user acquisition mechanism has faded in efficacy. And five years of lost innovation...
  - chl 16y ago
    I prefer to think of it as stored-up innovation.
kin 16y ago
I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. Delicious' time has passed by but you've got ask why one would acquire old technology. The answer is simple, to do something with it. I'm excited to see what they come up with.
- wtn 16y ago
  I think they were mostly acquiring the name and the user base.
quanticle 16y ago
The time for sites like Delicious has passed thanks to the fact that sites like Facebook and Twitter have integrated link sharing, while browsers like Firefox and Chrome have integrated bookmark synchronization. If you think about it, that's what Delicious did - bookmark synchronization and sharing. It did them damn well in its time, but that time has passed now - that functionality is integrated into other tools, and there's no demand for a standalone service that just does bookmark sharing/sync.
- ojilles 16y ago
  For me Delicious was all about finding my bookmarks back. Both FB/Twitter as well as the browsers make this very very hard. Ever tried finding a link back that you tweeted a year ago?
  - quanticle 15y ago
    Your use case falls into the bookmark synchronization category. Firefox Sync and Google Bookmarks Sync can synchronize bookmarks across machines.
    - ojilles 15y ago
      No it doesn't. We're talking a few thousand bookmarks here -- I need search, not synch. (I use synch too, but for a much smaller subset (<20) bookmarks across many devices.)
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lotusleaf1987 16y ago
I don't think so. Delicious was never really executed completely, it was always a good concept but I never felt like they fleshed out a lot of features. I would love to see Delicious go through a Renaissance.
- phren0logy 16y ago
  I agree. I have found amazingly useful stuff from the people I follow on Delicious. Very high signal/noise when you follow the right people.
- wyclif 16y ago
  I don't agree, though I'm not pigheaded about it. I've been using Delicious since the first week of release or so in 2003 I think, and later when delicious-discuss got going I seem to recall many conversations about feature bloat. I recall Joshu was very careful about adding features; one of the primary "core values" of del.icio.us was for it to be lightweight.
Vitaly 16y ago
delicious just never evolved into something really useful. They have so much data but they don't do anything too interesting with it. Where are my personal recommendation for example?
ddemchuk 16y ago
They have a perfect platform for social recommendations. They could rival stumbleupon, reddit, and many others utility-wise simply because they have such detailed profiles of all of us based on our bookmarking habits.
jordan0day 16y ago
What I really want to know is when is someone going to buy memepool and post something new?
jslatts 16y ago
The time for Delicious may be over, but there seems to still be tons of demand. The mismanagement of Delicious created a perfect opportunity for http://pinboard.in/ http://pinboard.in/ to step in. I pay for the full archival membership and I highly recommend it.
_pius 16y ago
Did someone bury the lede here or is this not the first time joshu's talked about exactly what Tasty Labs is doing?

42 points by pitdesi 16y ago

jdp23 16y ago

seems to me there's still plenty of life in the social bookmarking/link-sharing market. Reddit for example seems to be doing quite nicely.

joshu 16y ago
Reddit isn't social bookmarking. But I do agree. In the case of Delicious, however, the original user acquisition mechanism has faded in efficacy. And five years of lost innovation...
- chl 16y ago
  I prefer to think of it as stored-up innovation.

kin 16y ago

I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. Delicious' time has passed by but you've got ask why one would acquire old technology. The answer is simple, to do something with it. I'm excited to see what they come up with.

wtn 16y ago
I think they were mostly acquiring the name and the user base.

quanticle 16y ago

The time for sites like Delicious has passed thanks to the fact that sites like Facebook and Twitter have integrated link sharing, while browsers like Firefox and Chrome have integrated bookmark synchronization. If you think about it, that's what Delicious did - bookmark synchronization and sharing. It did them damn well in its time, but that time has passed now - that functionality is integrated into other tools, and there's no demand for a standalone service that just does bookmark sharing/sync.

ojilles 16y ago
For me Delicious was all about finding my bookmarks back. Both FB/Twitter as well as the browsers make this very very hard. Ever tried finding a link back that you tweeted a year ago?
- quanticle 15y ago
  Your use case falls into the bookmark synchronization category. Firefox Sync and Google Bookmarks Sync can synchronize bookmarks across machines.
  - ojilles 15y ago
    No it doesn't. We're talking a few thousand bookmarks here -- I need search, not synch. (I use synch too, but for a much smaller subset (<20) bookmarks across many devices.)

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lotusleaf1987 16y ago

I don't think so. Delicious was never really executed completely, it was always a good concept but I never felt like they fleshed out a lot of features. I would love to see Delicious go through a Renaissance.

phren0logy 16y ago
I agree. I have found amazingly useful stuff from the people I follow on Delicious. Very high signal/noise when you follow the right people.
wyclif 16y ago
I don't agree, though I'm not pigheaded about it. I've been using Delicious since the first week of release or so in 2003 I think, and later when delicious-discuss got going I seem to recall many conversations about feature bloat. I recall Joshu was very careful about adding features; one of the primary "core values" of del.icio.us was for it to be lightweight.

Vitaly 16y ago

delicious just never evolved into something really useful. They have so much data but they don't do anything too interesting with it. Where are my personal recommendation for example?

ddemchuk 16y ago

They have a perfect platform for social recommendations. They could rival stumbleupon, reddit, and many others utility-wise simply because they have such detailed profiles of all of us based on our bookmarking habits.

jordan0day 16y ago

What I really want to know is when is someone going to buy memepool and post something new?

jslatts 16y ago

The time for Delicious may be over, but there seems to still be tons of demand. The mismanagement of Delicious created a perfect opportunity for http://pinboard.in/ http://pinboard.in/ to step in. I pay for the full archival membership and I highly recommend it.

_pius 16y ago

Did someone bury the lede here or is this not the first time joshu's talked about exactly what Tasty Labs is doing?