Apr 27 2006
it’s made out of people
del.icio.us users discover interesting things on the Web every day. We want to make it easier for you to find and connect to these people, so that you can benefit from their knowledge and they can benefit from yours. Today the “inbox” feature lets you subscribe to other users’ bookmarks, but most people don’t know about it and it’s not terribly easy to use in your everyday life.
To make sharing easier, we’ve just released a new feature called “your network”. You can add other del.icio.us users to your network either by visiting their del.icio.us pages or from the your network page itself. Once someone is in your network, you can keep track of their latest saved public bookmarks. And when you save new bookmarks you can easily share them with people in your network just by clicking on their username.
Your network replaces the user subscriptions functionality previously offered by the “inbox”. If you had any existing user subscriptions in your inbox we automatically moved them over to your network, so you haven’t lost any connections you already had.
Stephen Hood · stlhood Tags: announcements bookmark this
57 Comments
Marcus | Apr 27 2006 at 9:47 pm
Snap!
Lisa | Apr 27 2006 at 11:06 pm
So … I have to go two different places now to see my tag subscriptions and my user subscriptions? Is that what this is?
leahculver | Apr 27 2006 at 11:08 pm
Funny thing happened today - chipmark also released a sharing feature. ***www.chipmark.com*** Chipmark’s sharing is included in both its Firefox extension and Internet Explorer plugin! Also - see all your chipmarks right in the extension (no need to go to a webpage). Why do I have to go to the del.icio.us site to do EVERYTHING? Like tags? You’ll like labels. Got buddies? Send them stuff directly from the plugin (no need to save it first). Chipmark is an open-source free bookmarking system developed by University of Minnesota students. Although far less people know about it - it’s all about the people (not the bling). del.icio.us - bring.it.on.
Alex Bosworth | Apr 28 2006 at 12:47 am
This is a cool feature - I wish I could see friends of friends though.
Also, do people lose their user accounts if it conflicts with a feature name?
BTW to chipmarks guy, I don’t want to have to ‘add chipmarks’, I want to ‘add bookmarks’ and maybe user agent detect if I want to ‘add favorites’, but ‘add chipmarks’ = crazy un-delicious
Marcus | Apr 28 2006 at 12:49 am
When did ye lot add the Flickr thumbnails? It’s quite a nice wee bit of integration with your Yahoo! cohorts. It’d be cool to see it expanded to cope with bookmarks of Flickr galleries too. The context might be different on occasion but, when a Flickr image is being bookmarked, it may be a neat idea to pull in the tags from over there too. I think 75×75 is a wee bit too big, though, but I guess it’s the smallest they produce at the moment.
Alex Bosworth | Apr 28 2006 at 12:54 am
btw, I like the feature where you can subscribe to other people’s networks — ala
/network/joshua:
http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/bozpage/river.php?page=hmv
leahculver | Apr 28 2006 at 1:10 am
Ok, so I was trying to start a flamewar with del.icio.us but I’m pretty terrible at it. I’ve screwed it up several times today. Sorry about the terminology, “chipmarks” is just a cute name for bookmarks - it’s in the urban dictionary. And I’m a girl, not a guy (see my site by clicking on my name). Otherwise, thanks for looking at chipmark. that’s cool.
Philip Dorrell | Apr 28 2006 at 1:23 am
It needs a “delete” link, preferably exactly where the “add to your network” link would be if that user wasn’t already added.
Björn Lindström | Apr 28 2006 at 1:34 am
Very good. Does this mean the for:-tags will be replaced by a better scheme (one that doesn’t intrude on the tags), soon?
flynn | Apr 28 2006 at 2:52 am
A shame it didn’t migrate my carefully crafted user groups. Now I’m back to having a unsorted list of people.
Another thing that drives me crazy about the new feature: What’s up with the “[from author]” in the title? The posts already have an author and my RSS reader displays that in the creator field. No need to clutter up my title field with it.
Ronald | Apr 28 2006 at 3:29 am
Guys, cool new feature. How about adding a search function - name only, perfect - to find users, especially since a lot of people modify their real name into a user name of some sort?
Arun.T | Apr 28 2006 at 3:34 am
What abt Networds or Nettags similar to Network
GongLiang | Apr 28 2006 at 3:43 am
Is it spam?
nco71 | Apr 28 2006 at 3:49 am
When will it be possible to contact and talk with other people.
Thanks to link , I found interesting profile , close to me.
siria | Apr 28 2006 at 4:20 am
I think this makes things more complicated, not less. I now have to go to two different pages to see the links I want to see, not one. It’s also undone all the work I did with sorting my user groups. I can’t see why adding the network feature had to remove some of the functionality of the inbox feature.
國生三年才開始&hellip | Apr 28 2006 at 5:36 am
del.icio.us network
del.icio.us 也要開始搞 SNS 了 ?
剛看到一篇文章，說是 del.icio.us 推出新功能 your network，你可以在 your network 裡面加入別的 user，就可以看到那些人的 public bookmark；另一個用法是在 post …
kk | Apr 28 2006 at 8:36 am
Hi stephen,
Do you think you could share with us how you use it? Like siria, it does seem to have taken away what we learned how to use, needing two checks (instead of one glance at an rss list). Can you describe how it works for you, the benefits etc. :) Tks!
Mike | Apr 28 2006 at 9:27 am
MySpaceilicious.
Frank | Apr 28 2006 at 10:16 am
I now use “my network” to aggregate various accounts I use (work, play, etc) for all my bookmarking needs. Very useful. Thanks.
fitnr | Apr 28 2006 at 10:19 am
This announcement is really disingenous. There isn’t any new feature - you’ve just bifurcated the old ‘inbox’ page. And now I can’t look at other people’s subscriptions, which is very lame. It’s a SOCIAL bookmarking service, Yahoo! It helps to see what others are subscribing to.
fitnr | Apr 28 2006 at 10:26 am
Oh yeah, you’ve also removed network-labelling capability. I used the labelling feature to group my contacts. When one is reading the bookmarks of twenty very different people, it’s helpful to break it down. Thanks for nothing, yahoo!
Lisa | Apr 28 2006 at 10:31 am
Seriously, how is this an improvement? How is this any more “easy to use in your everyday life?” It seems so bullshitty to me to call my user subscriptions “my network” when they’re just people who link to interesting things and I like to read what they’ve come up with. If I wanted to “network” with them, I could do that elsewhere. It’s not my problem that “most people don’t know about” subscribing to other users’ bookmarks.
I’ll probably just end up ignoring my tags subscriptions now — they get so full of spam anyway, ignoring users does not seem to work at all, and there’s no way to filter out all the fanfiction recs if you subscribe to any tag having to do with fictional works.
Steve | Apr 28 2006 at 12:38 pm
I concur, there isn’t anything new there and certainly not an improvement. In my opinion it’s a step in the wrong direction.
Don’t separate people from tags - integrate them. The inbox is a great temporal list of everything I care about. Doesn’t matter if it’s a tag or a person. Give me better tools to handle a large inbox instead of just breaking it in two. An inbox with a tag list, saved searches, and better spam filtering.
BTW, IMHO ‘network’ isn’t the right name for this feature. It shouldn’t be a list of people I subscribe to, but a list of all the people I sent ‘for:’ tags to and vice versa.
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jcwinnie | Apr 28 2006 at 1:23 pm
Looking forward to an upgrade of the Firefox extension adding “My Network” to the drop down menu.
Alex Bosworth | Apr 28 2006 at 3:49 pm
One thing I would suggest is changing the rss feed to not append the username to the title of the link, it’s confusing and rss already has a field where you can put the author details.
julian | Apr 28 2006 at 4:19 pm
There is getting to be a lot of bookmark spam: see user bettybob
ozgur alaz | Apr 28 2006 at 4:30 pm
it is so cool. But i wish it works like flickr groups. Same-minded people’d constitute a social group. That’d be cool
julian | Apr 28 2006 at 4:32 pm
please ban these people from del.icio.us!!: martinwww, roxyaaa, bettybob
Check out their links. They are all garbage!!!!! They are ruining the del.icio.us community!
tolvuvit | Apr 28 2006 at 8:35 pm
i love the flickr new tool!
http://www.freewebs.com/tolvuvit/flickr-Ddelicious01.JPG
sourlime | Apr 29 2006 at 1:19 am
I also find this more complicated and less helpful. I had some friends that I liked seeing their recommended links no matter what it was tagged with, and some friends that I only wanted to keep an eye on for certain tags. The old inbox format was perfect for that.
Now I have to choose whether I want to narrow my focus for half of those friends, widen my focus for the other half of my friends, use two different feeds, or use anaggregator to make another feed that combines those two feeds.
It’s especially frustrating because the inbox was pretty much my favourite feature and how I kept abreast of my friend’s suggestions. It was the main reason why I used del.icio.us over any of your competitors: because it easily and quickly created a list of unique recommended links from my trusted group, and because of the way it was managed I don’t have to worry about duplicates. For me, this new system just adds another layer of complication on.
Daniel | Apr 29 2006 at 12:14 pm
What happened to the ability to subscribe to just one tag of a user? Say, I wanted to have in my inbox all of Joshua’s bookmarks tagged “osx”. How can I do this with the network?
Who moved my cheese?
Daniel | Apr 29 2006 at 12:26 pm
Oh, by the way, thanks a lot Steven. And no, I don’t want to bookmark this blog entry.
DonnaCrichton | Apr 29 2006 at 1:11 pm
What happened? I fell asleep @ my comp.u.ter and woke up here.
What (Iam serious!) is this place?
Massive Attack! (*Mushroom*: come in please)
sspboyd | Apr 29 2006 at 3:06 pm
I really don’t like this network distinction. It has complicated what was a great aspect of delicious. Is it possible to make this optional??
sourlime | Apr 29 2006 at 5:57 pm
Daniel - you can still use your inbox to subscribe to just one tag for one user. (Or to subscribe to one tag by all users.) The network is for subscribing to all tags by one user.
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The Social Networking Web&hellip | Apr 29 2006 at 8:18 pm
Del.icio.us Launches “Your Network”
Straight from the Del.icio.us blog: del.icio.us users discover interesting things on the Web every day. We want to make it easier for you to find and connect to these people, so that you can benefit from their knowledge and they…
John Beeler | Apr 30 2006 at 12:24 am
I am growing more and more disenchanted with delicious every day. The tag combos are what made it for me, and those haven’t worked since Yahoo bought delicious. Despite being on Yahoo’s servers, delicious is slower than it was before Yahoo.
I’m glad you made some money out of this Josh, but, like Flickr, development has grinded to a standstill around here since the acquisition. Makes me sad.
Mike | May 1 2006 at 9:30 am
I love delicious but am finding it agonizingly slow to post and retrieve bookmarks. Any chance of improving this???
Ken | May 2 2006 at 12:52 pm
Why does this sound like Simpy’s[1] Watchlists[2] and Groups?
[1] http://www.simpy.com/
[2] http://www.simpy.com/help#watchlists
kk | May 3 2006 at 3:57 am
Hi Stephen,
Have you had time to reflect on any of the feedback people have written here? Another suggestion, can we get a button/link to vote down the obvious spammers who’re exploiting previously useful tag streams.
shawn | May 4 2006 at 10:05 am
I find TAG subscriptions absolutly worthless since they show my own bookmarks.
I assumed i would use subscriptions to find new stuff based on tags, but since it shows all the stuff I already have saved its pointless. Why is it setup like this ? Why would one want to see their own stuff in a subscription ?
Also when viewing by tags id like to filter by unique urls,i mean this is a bookmark list right? How is having 100 links to the same site useful albeit each with a different title.
All in all im finding delicious far from what i thought would be possible.
hlh | May 5 2006 at 4:52 pm
i understand that you can still you the inbox to subscribe to SELECT tags of a user, but doesn’t it make sense to roll this into the NETWORKING functionality? i look forward to seeing some updates regarding this “new” feature.
thanks.
joshua | May 5 2006 at 6:45 pm
Beeler - please email me with what is broken? Intersections have been working for a long time.
data | May 8 2006 at 1:27 pm
Find it very slow post and retrieve bookmarks, otherwise the site is great.
Mike | May 8 2006 at 6:53 pm
I tried bookmarking this page, it took 8 seconds to load (and no, i’m not using dial up). Love delicious, but it’s getting annoying.
e | May 11 2006 at 1:06 pm
is there a way to see who has added you to their network? (other than browsing usernames).
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kali | May 25 2006 at 8:00 am
this is a complete blog site or it contains any other things
TeK | Jun 7 2006 at 6:21 am
Any way to remove alink from the “links for you” box other than asking the sender to remove the “for:” tag ?
I mean, we should be able to empty this box, ie to remove those tags ourselves, no ?
Yahoo! Search blog&hellip | Aug 3 2006 at 8:15 pm
What’s cooking at del.icio.us
It’s been a busy few months for the del.icio.us team — building new features, scaling-up our infrastructure to meet growing demand, and working with our Yahoo! and MyWeb colleagues to share ideas and integrate our technologies. We hope you…
mark mast | Aug 4 2006 at 9:27 pm
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sheyla | Oct 12 2006 at 7:56 am
I create acount in site http://www.del.icio.us. Is amazing and cognitive social bookmarks.
viz | Oct 29 2006 at 10:56 am
That’s true. There is too much of spam bookmarking and somethig should be done to get rid of unwanted bookmarks
Josey | Dec 15 2006 at 5:25 am
Hi ,
Can any one tell me how to add a add to del.icio.us in my webpages ,as my visitors can add my pages to del.icio.us .I am looking for a pice of code which can be pasted on my template
thank you
josey
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