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Today, I’m happy to announce an early beta release of an Internet Explorer version of our del.icio.us bookmarks extension. For the first time our Internet Explorer users will enjoy most of the best features of our new Firefox extension. We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser. Since there are some differences between Internet Explorer and Firefox, the two versions are not exactly the same, but you’ll find many of the same great features like the del.icio.us Sidebar and Toolbar. Here’s an overview of the IE features.
- Near instantaneous searching with very large accounts (over 10K bookmarks)
- Full del.icio.us sidebar and toolbar implementation with bookmark sync and typedown search
- Toolbar indicators for new network activity and links for you
- Works on IE6, IE7, and IE8 beta on both XP and Vista
Interested? Download it here.
Since this release is so new, we’ve also created a Yahoo! Group for downloading and discussing the Internet Explorer release. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delicious-ie-extension to sign up. In the group we’ll gather your feedback and share the release notes for each version. We’ve been using it every day in the del.icio.us tagmines for a few months now, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve found all the bugs. Just like the Firefox 3 release, many of the features and interface choices are experimental and may change before we officially launch. As always, we’re eager to hear your feedback on the add-on.
In other news, we’re all humbled by the large and positive reaction to our Firefox 3 beta extension release announcement a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who tried our extension out, especially those who submitted bugs. This feedback is enormously helpful as we work towards a final release of that extension.
Nick Nguyen
Senior Product Manager, del.icio.us
May 13th, 2008
Update: New extension beta 2.0.48 released!
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
April 30th, 2008
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.
September 24th, 2007
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!
September 6th, 2007
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
June 22nd, 2007
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
June 5th, 2007
For the past few months, we’ve been working on a new del.icio.us Bookmarks extension for Firefox. We quietly released it to the addons.mozilla.org community to see what would happen, and we’ve been constantly working on it to make it great for our core community of users. Since that launch, we’ve received loads of great feedback and have been working non stop to address the biggest requests from the community.
After months of hard work, I’m pleased to officially announce the new extension. It has the same two buttons as the old one, but they do so much more. The biggest change is that we now integrate all your bookmarks right in the browser. From the new sidebar you can sort and search your bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and even modify your bookmarks. The new toolbar is also great - you can select what tags you want to see in your toolbar, show all the bookmarks with a given tag, and even view your bundles. Of course, livemarks and keywords are both fully supported.
If you still love the classic extension, not to worry, it’s still around. Otherwise, visit our help page to learn more about the extension or just go ahead and install it! Feedback is always welcome, so come on down to our group to talk about the extension some more.
Nick Nguyen,
Product Manager
April 5th, 2007
As mentioned recently in this blog, we’re working on a lot of improvements for del.icio.us. We’ve just posted a survey as a way to get feedback and opinions from you, the users. We want to make sure that we’re focusing on the right things, fixing what’s busted and not busting the stuff that already works. It’s not very long as surveys go, and hopefully it’s not too über-corporate. Thanks for taking the time to tell us what you think. We’ll be posting a summary of the results a few weeks after the survey closes.
March 30th, 2007
We passed our two millionth user signup at the beginning of this month. Because we’ve been very busy keeping up with the load, we didn’t have time to come up with something up to our normally high standard of wit (I was going to refer to server smoke but it seems I did that last time) so here is a cat picture I found on the internet.
March 29th, 2007
Because we don’t all get together enough and talk about important nerd topics, we and our Yahoo! compatriots have started a series of microconferences, entitled confab.yahoo, which will be open to all and be held in the evenings and early in the week (so you don’t have the excuse of needing to go to important parties).
The first in this series, on Dec 13 at 5:30pm, is a discussion on Prediction Markets, moderated by James Surowiecki. Please sign up and join me next week.
A prediction market is like a stock market for ideas or information.
The market rewards good information whether it comes from elites or the
masses. Prediction markets have built a track record of besting pundits
and pollsters when it comes to predicting everything from political
elections to quarterly sales figures.
From the announcement:
Join us for a public “how to” session on prediction markets1 moderated by James Surowiecki, New Yorker columnist and best-selling author of The Wisdom of Crowds.
Bo Cowgill from Google, Leslie Fine from HP, Todd Proebsting from Microsoft, and Dave Pennock from Yahoo! will describe how they are using prediction markets to aid corporate forecasting and decision making.
Other speakers include Chris Hibbert, the developer of Zocalo, an open source prediction market platform; Adam Siegel, the co-founder of InklingMarkets.com, a Paul Graham yCombinator startup, and Robin Hanson, the visionary economist and inventor whose pioneering work paved the way.
The event will emphasize practical lessons and hands-on advice. After brief presentations from each speaker, Surowiecki will open up the session for discussion with the audience.
December 8th, 2006
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