Aug 4 2009
Delicious Homepage Gets “Fresh”
Way back in January I released a simple application called TweetNews, which essentially ranks the latest Yahoo! News articles by their number of related Twitter messages to determine relevance for really fresh content. Remarkably, the community responded to it – taking out the server quota in a matter of minutes and resulting in a Wired article saying TweetNews “might well be the best mashup we’ve ever seen.” So, we thought about where else we could apply this model, and in short order selected a Yahoo! property that we felt could benefit greatly from a social-freshness lift: the delicious homepage. To freshen up delicious.com, we developed a new, much improved, TweetNews-like system to aggregate and rank recently bookmarked links every minute or so. It’s currently running live under the new and default Fresh tab, but here’s a screenshot of it in action as well:
On the previous delicious.com page (click the Popular tab to revert back), you typically found links that had ~100 bookmarks - so more authoritative resources as opposed to fresh news. Additionally, given that the most popular tag on delicious is ‘design’, you probably encountered headlines like ‘100+ Wordpress Themes’ on most days (in fact, I used to make bets on this ;)). For this new Fresh homepage, our system displays recently bookmarked links and tweeted messages focused mostly on technology, web, politics, and media. Underneath the hood, Fresh factors several features into the ranking like related bookmark and tweet counts, “eats our own dogfood” by leveraging BOSS to filter for high quality results, as well as stitches tweets to related articles even if the tweets do not provide matching titles or URLs (as ~81% of tweets do not contain URLs). Stitching based on short text doesn’t always work properly, but we thought it was an idea worth demonstrating in this very early release. Try clicking the ‘x Related Tweets’ link for any given story to see the Twitter conversation appear instantly inline.
Although we’re just getting started, we do hope this new homepage further demonstrates the freshness, newsworthiness, and social relevance of delicious - and maybe gives you a greater reason to come back to delicious.com more often :)
Finally, I would like to give big shout outs to Dave Dash, Rocco Caputo, Nathan Arnold, Chris Draycott, Simon Davison, Ariel Seldman, and the entire delicious team for stepping up to make this happen so fast, and without whom, delicious Fresh would have not been at all possible.
Vik Singh
Architect, Yahoo!
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Delicious keeps you in th&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 6:59 am
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Daniel | Aug 4 2009 at 7:20 am
I think this is so wrong.
Delicious is a bookmarking system and it should be ranking contents according to the number of bookmarks not tweets.
If we want to see the actual content on the net, there are various applications built on the net just for that.
There are items on the frontpage with only 2 bookmarks. So, a frequent delicious user but not a Twitter user will have almost no effect on how Delicious ranks bookmarks?
Why, why, why :)
New Delicious Search and &hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 7:51 am
[…] by their number of related Twitter messages to determine relevance for really fresh content," recalls Yahoo Architect Vik Singh. "Remarkably, the community responded to it – taking out the […]
Ricky | Aug 4 2009 at 7:57 am
I want websites, not tweets. It’d be better if Delicious users could just comment directly about showcased websites, like Stumbleupon users do. I’ve always wondered why we can’t just comment on items. All we have is the option to make notes.
I’m not so fond of twitter myself. If I want to hear people talk about things, I’ll search for forums.
I hope you don’t rush down this route. You could do a questionnaire for Delicious users or something.
Delicious Joins the Twitt&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 8:02 am
[…] can see what people are saying about the bookmark. Delicious explains this in a bit more detail on their blog: “On the previous delicious.com page (click the Popular tab), you typically found links that had […]
Yogish Baliga | Aug 4 2009 at 8:16 am
I want my delicious home page back. Where is the geek appeal? I am going back to Yahoo! News.
sean | Aug 4 2009 at 8:16 am
I like the fresh idea of using both tweets and the delicious count. I remember delicious.com used to be a bunch of photoshop and asian links …
@ Daniel
If you want the old ranking, you could always just click the Popular tab right?
Casey-Computing and Techn&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 8:20 am
[…] can see what people are saying about the bookmark. Delicious explains this in a bit more detail on their blog: “On the previous delicious.com page (click the Popular tab), you typically found links that had […]
Peter | Aug 4 2009 at 8:26 am
@ Where is the geeky appeal?
It looks pretty geeky to me. “Get your Facebook Data Out”, “Marines ban Twitter”, “Software Testing Tools”, “Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7″, etc.
The Social Networking Gui&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 8:35 am
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Yahoo: Pay No Attention t&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 8:38 am
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Delicious Joins the Twitt&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 8:50 am
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New Delicious Search and &hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 9:02 am
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Jan’s Tech Blog &ra&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 9:30 am
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Mike | Aug 4 2009 at 9:51 am
I agree with the earlier post by Daniel.
delicious is for bookmarks not tweets.
that said, yes, you should incorporate twitter as a part of your tool-set but be innovative. I posted to the delicious support forum months ago that what you should offer is a way to tweet your bookmarks as well as import your twitter favorites into delicious.
if you want to layer in tweets over bookmark ranking on the home page then offer it as a layer that can be turned on and off, not shove this change down our throats as the only option.
Peter | Aug 4 2009 at 10:00 am
Showing the related tweet count is shoving “this change down our throats”? You only see the tweets if you click it. Wow there are some purists here. Just click the Popular tab to go back to the old page. All delicious needs to do is make it an option to make Popular the default tab, although Fresh seems more relevant and buzzworthy to me.
joshua schachter | Aug 4 2009 at 10:38 am
The new search page is very nice.
I don’t like the twitter integration. It should have added a second button to the save dialog; [save] [save and send] [cancel] and then had the [save and send] button save the bookmark and then bring up a second screen.
The reason to do this is because delicious has always been about being uncomplicated.
Mashable « Blog-Fea&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 11:08 am
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Sam | Aug 4 2009 at 11:10 am
Fresh seems WAY more relevant than the Popular old tab.
Ariel Seidman | Aug 4 2009 at 11:41 am
Joshua,
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks. We are big fans of the new search features as well:-) I personally have 1400+ bookmarks and finding stuff I knew was there got tough. This solves my problem.
Agreed, simple is good. Your recommending a level of progressive disclosure. There is a level built in; we don’t expose the Send tab or Message field until you add one or more recipients into the Send field. If you don’t want to add anybody then one can just hit Save or Return key.
schuessler | Aug 4 2009 at 11:53 am
very nice, fresh is good!
rubbercat | Aug 4 2009 at 12:55 pm
I like it. Hopefully this will make Delicious appeal to people other than web designers.
Delicious Tries to Borrow&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 12:57 pm
[…] which aggregated the most popular Yahoo news stories being discussed on Twitter, Singh said in a blog post on Delicious. The tab updates every minute or so, rather than in actual real time, but for many, […]
joshua schachter | Aug 4 2009 at 1:19 pm
On second glance, I think I like the front page as well, but I think the “related tweets” link is just distracting.
I’d say a good chunk of the promoted links are pretty good. Some are pretty irrelevant (there’s one about software testing, because people are talking about other kinds of testing.)
Michael Garmahis | Aug 4 2009 at 2:56 pm
I’m expecting from Delicious 2 new features: eliminating duplicates in search (which is really frustrating now) and saving offline copies of webpages (so I can reach my bookmark in the case original site is down).
Delicious se integra con &hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 4:20 pm
[…] que se mencionen algunas palabras del titulo de la pagina para que aparezca en esa lista de tweets. Según Yahoo!, esto lo hicieron con tomando en cuenta que el 81% de tweets no tienen un enlace. Sin embargo […]
hash | Aug 4 2009 at 4:36 pm
I’d rather see this ranked by number of bookmarks not by tweets. Doesn’t work for me at all.
JD | Aug 4 2009 at 4:45 pm
fresh uses both bookmark counts & tweets to rank according to the post
do you really like the old Popular tab or Photoshop tab better which still exists on the homepage if you want it?
Yahoo’s Delicious a&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 5:49 pm
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Yahoo: Pay No Attention t&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 9:22 pm
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Yahoo: Pay No Attention t&hellip | Aug 4 2009 at 9:57 pm
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Rick Mans | Aug 5 2009 at 1:45 am
Will the API also be extended with the ’send’ functionality?
Freetracking.org » &hellip | Aug 5 2009 at 4:40 am
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ArcoJedi | Aug 5 2009 at 6:06 am
Bug in the post bookmark window relating to the “Tags” and “Send” fields. Prior to this update, if your cursor was in the TAGS field and you started typing, the autofill would give some choices that once they appeared you could hit the tab key to select. Now, tab moves to the next field (SEND). The only way to select the option is the down arrow.
Example URL:
http://delicious.com/save?jump=close&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.delicious.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F08%2Fdelicious-homepage-gets-%25e2%2580%259cfresh%25e2%2580%259d.html%23comments&title=delicious%20blog%20%C2%BB%20Delicious%20Homepage%20Gets%20%E2%80%9CFresh%E2%80%9D&v=5&noui&jump=close&src=ffbmext2.1.041
Delicious Joins the Twitt&hellip | Aug 5 2009 at 6:42 am
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Yahoo’s Delicious a&hellip | Aug 5 2009 at 8:29 pm
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Delicious 可以借 Twitt&hellip | Aug 5 2009 at 9:21 pm
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Yahoo’s Delicious a&hellip | Aug 12 2009 at 1:34 pm
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Associate Press » Y&hellip | Aug 27 2009 at 12:52 am
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Yahoo Bookmarking Site De&hellip | Oct 8 2009 at 12:01 am
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Blank Label | Nov 7 2009 at 11:31 pm
wondering how Delicious will be filtering tweets from robots to ensure quality relevancy
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