Del.icio.us preps next version — and gives us a peek

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Owen Thomas

07/09/07 11:58PM

Filed to: Revamp

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Del.icio.us, the social-bookmarking website people use to track, categorize, and share their favorite webpages, is testing a new version. But did its engineers really mean to give the whole Web a glimpse of the redesigned site by snapping photos of the usability lab? It's hard to make out details of Del.icio.us 2.0, but we know this much: As insiders have been hinting for a while, the pink highlights showing a bookmark's popularity are gone. (Photo by nzdave)

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UniComp Owen Thomas 09/12/08 02:10PM

A guy I worked with looked into the ratio between delicious bookmarks versus traffic for a page and it's ridiculously low. We found one page with a Hubspot rank of about 50,000 (Which is fairly high) with 8000 inbound links, but only 100 delicious bookmarks. It is a decent tool, but not catching the internet by storm by any means

Carlos Owen Thomas 07/10/07 07:05AM

Yeah, they need to do something. They provide a service that everyone should want to use, but I've never signed up and don't know anyone who uses it. "Usability" is getting the hell out of the Sillicon Valley echo chamber and seeing how people -actually- use the internet.