Firefox 3 users, rejoice! Today I’m pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility. While it is largely similar to the release version of our Firefox Add-on, there are a few nifty new features:
- Jump to Tag feature (press F2) allows you to quickly access tags and
bookmarks using the keyboard
- New layout for saving bookmarks
- Preferences now in a separate dialog under Tools (which also can be
invoked via the prefs button on the FF Add-ons pane)
- Status bar indicators for network activity, new links for you, and the del.icio.us website
- Classic mode for users who just want simple buttons without the overhead of sync
Like any beta release this Firefox Add-on is meant to provide you with a preview of upcoming features. Some of the features and interface choices, like Jump To Tag, are experimental and may change before we officially launch and we’re eager to hear your feedback on the changes, especially if you think we can do certain things better. If you have issues or comments, please let us know in the delicious-firefox-extension Yahoo! Group.
Download it here. Also, since this is prerelease software, please do not submit support requests via the normal channel- we have a Yahoo! Group for discussion of the Firefox 3 Add-on.
If you’re not already familiar with the extension, take a look at our Quick Tour which explains the basics. It hasn’t been updated to reflect all the new features but is a great way to get started.
Thanks for helping us test- we’ve built and upgraded these Add-ons based on lots of user feedback and we hope you enjoy trying them out.
Nick Nguyen
Senior Product Manager, del.icio.us
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Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.
I don’t know who first realized the potential of Delicious for education, but I’ve seen a huge amount of community documentation created by teachers and librarians to help each other understand what this place is, why it’s valuable, and how to use it. Here are some of my favorite bookmarks:
Bonus bookmark: a profile of Joshua as the MIT Technology Review’s Young Innovator of 2006, including part of the story of Delicious’ origins.
Britta Gustafson · britta
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Greetings all and Happy New Year! (is it too late to say that now?) We know we haven’t updated the blog in a looong time but the team has been heads down working on the next version of Delicious We’ll have an update to share with you guys next week.
In the meantime, given this is the week of Macworld we thought you’d be interested in this Quick Tip on how to use Delicious on your iPhone.
Huge thanks to Tom Merritt at CNET who created this video and let us post it here. We hope this is a useful tool for all of you current and future iPhone users!
Chris Kim
Marketing Manager
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One of the many great things about working on del.icio.us is hearing from people who really grok what we do and why we’re doing it. This enthusiasm takes many forms, and we’ve definitely been blown away by interest in our preview as well as the overwhelming response for our old swag.
It’s all great, and it’s extra-great when someone creates something that’s extra-special. For all of you who struggle to explain Social Bookmarking to your family and friends, there’s now an awesome video for you:
Many thanks to Lee and Sachi Lefever at Common Craft for their efforts here. So, next time you’re trying to explaining why this “Social Bookmarking” thing is all the rage, you now know what video to play.
Nick Nguyen
Product Manager
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Delicious is four years old today. Happy birthday! We’ve obviously got some big things coming soon, but to commemorate the occasion, here are some early screenshots I recently uncovered; one picture is probably within the first one hundred bookmarks saved.
Joshua Schachter · joshua
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Fresh news from deep within Tag Mountain: we just launched an early, limited Preview of the Delicious redesign we’ve been working on for the past few months. We’ve refreshed the UI, built an entirely new (and faster) search engine, and added numerous improvements based on your feedback. The goal of this Preview is to get feedback from our users about the design changes and also start to put our new platform through the paces.
The initial invite list is already full, but we will likely be adding more openings in the near future. Check your links for you to see if you’re in the first round (sorry to be so indirect about it, but our privacy policy doesn’t allow us to email users about this sort of thing and we take that very seriously). If you don’t see the invite link but are interested in taking a look and giving us some feedback, you can add your username to the list.
We’ll be posting updates to this blog throughout the Preview process to keep everyone informed of what we’re learning. Thanks for your feedback and support!
Joshua Schachter · joshua
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Do you want some del.icio.us stickers? Or a few del.icio.us bookmarks - the kind you put inside books? We have a surplus of dots here at the tag mines, and we’d like to distribute them more evenly around the world. To get some schwag, mail a self-addressed stamped envelope to the following address:
Yahoo! Inc.
c/o del.icio.us
2821 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1838
We’ll fill it with goodies and send it back to you. If you want to, include a note with your username, email address, and a comment or suggestion about del.icio.us: something you dislike, a story about how you use it, a feature we should add, or something like that. We’ll include a del.icio.us t-shirt for the people with the most useful and amusing notes, and they’ll entertain me while I suffer paper cuts from opening a zillion envelopes.
Britta Gustafson
community manager intern
Britta Gustafson · britta
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As mentioned here before, the del.icio.us team is presently in the midst of a major project: building a new platform which will speed up the site and help us grow even faster. At the same time we’re also taking a close look at our UI and exploring ways to make it both easier to use and more functional. Over the years we’ve heard a lot of feedback, both positive and negative. Many folks like the simple and terse nature of the site, while others take issue with certain elements of the design (shockingly, some of you think that light-blue-on-salmon-pink is not a good color combination; more shockingly, some of you think that it is). Our challenge then is to make del.icio.us better without messing up the stuff that already works.
We’ve been working on some new design ideas and recently conducted a series of usability tests to see if these ideas work. We brought in about a dozen people, both existing users and a few people who were new to del.icio.us. Yahoo! (our parent company) has some great facilities for this sort of thing which we basically moved into and hogged for about a week. It was a lot of fun for us (and, it seemed, for the participants), and we learned a lot from watching people use the site and try out our new designs. As we expected, we heard feedback all across the spectrum, and nearly all of it is proving deeply useful in our continuing work.
Here’s some stats from the tests:
- 20 participants
- Over 2000 post-it notes used
- 562 unique observations recorded
- Hundreds of design tweaks made as a result of feedback
- 62 cups of drip coffee and 23 lattes consumed
- Most disappointing thing overheard: “I don’t really get tags”
- Most gratifying thing overheard: “del.icio.us has totally changed my life”
- Funniest thing overheard: “I’m pleased; this new design doesn’t look like an angry fruit salad”
In the very near future we’re going to have a beta of the new design so we can get even more feedback (watch this space for announcements). Please also feel free to use this blog to share your thoughts about what you’d like to see different in del.icio.us. More cowbell? Less pink? Let us know.
Stephen Hood
Product Manager
Stephen Hood · stlhood
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Our friends over at Six Apart write:
If you have a TypePad blog, you can now make it easy for your readers to bookmark your stories on del.icio.us by automatically including a “save to del.icio.us” link in your post footers — without having to learn a single line of template code. Just sign into your account, navigate to your blog’s design tab, choose “Select Content” and configure your post footer.
In the past, we had a lot of questions from TypePad bloggers about how they could do this themselves, and instead of having them convert to Advanced Templates and copy and paste template code into their blogs, we wanted to save them the hassle and just do it as an option in the application.
If you’re using TypePad’s advanced template feature (and you know who you are), not to fear — del.icio.us has lots of options for adding your own savebuttons to your posts. Hint: you can use the template code that del.icio.us has for Movable Type, it will work just fine in your TypePad blog.
Michael Sippey
Six Apart
Joshua Schachter · joshua
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We’ve just launched our own official del.icio.us application for Facebook. It’s super easy to use; just visit our setup page, and after a few clicks you’ll be able add del.icio.us to your Facebook Profile page. The application lets you post a summary of your bookmarking activity to your Mini-Feed. It can also be configured to show your latest bookmarks so your friends can easily see what you’ve been reading.
Give it a shot and let us know what you think. We’re also working on additional functionality, so let us know what you’d like to see in future versions!
Nick Gerakines
Delicious Engineer
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