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

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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.

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?

Your use case falls into the bookmark synchronization category. Firefox Sync and Google Bookmarks Sync can synchronize bookmarks across machines.

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.)

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.

I think they were mostly acquiring the name and the user base.

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/ to step in. I pay for the full archival membership and I highly recommend it.

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

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

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.

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...

I prefer to think of it as stored-up innovation.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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