Delicious Revamped
Delicious was owned by Yahoo from 2005 to May 2011 and finally taken over by AVOS in 2011. Now back in the reckoning with a new look and new features designed to make delicious easier to use. The new look includes a new homepage, interface and back-end architecture. The revamped service aims to guide users into saving and sharing ‘stacks’ of online content with others. The earlier reference to “bookmarks” has been replaced with the term “links.
A stack is a collection of links built around a common theme or topic that can be shared in full with other users, enabling easy and swift discovery of online content by cutting through the noise. Stacks are dynamic, you can subscribe (follow) to one to find it more easily but also to keep up with updates, new links that get added to it.
AVOS calls said stack ‘playlists for the Web’. Stacks can have custom images, titles, descriptions and comments for each link. For example, podcasts that reference news from around the web can create a Delicious Stack of links for each episode or for the entire show.
Here is how the stacks work: select some related links, plug them into a stack and see the result. You can customize your stack by choosing images to feature, and by adding a title, description and comment for each link.
The new Delicious now offers: multi-word tags. The old method of tagging treated each individual word as a separate. The new site, by comparison, allows people to use tags with multiple words and supports commas (instead of spaces) as a way to add multiple tags to a particular link. To access the list of old tags, users have to click-through to their profile. The list of organized tags in the right side is now gone, replaced with a search navigation tool. Also gone are the numbers of links (bookmarks) that show how many times a person has used that tag.
Instead of ‘network’, ‘fans’ and ‘subscriptions’ the new Delicious is adopting the ‘Following’ concept thanks to the lead taken by Twitter and Facebook.
What remains the same is the Delicious APIs and feeds.
However AVOS has been getting a whole lot of criticism by former Delicious users and fans. In a new post on the ‘Delicious beta status blog’, AVOS has just announced that is has now fixed a problem with Firefox extensions, and more importantly, started a ‘bookmark rescue operation’ to appease former users who’ve lost their old Delicious bookmarks. What remains to be seen is whether the new Delicious delivers all that it promises.
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Awsm Post!!…..BTW from where do you get this kinda content..coz i hardly get any gr8 idea like this!!