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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
January 17th, 2008
Did you know that well over half of the requests seen by del.icio.us are for RSS feeds? That means that people cruising around our site in browsers are actually in the minority, when it comes down to raw traffic. Instead, our heaviest hitters include personalized home pages, desktop news aggregators, and even stranger things.
With that in mind, it makes sense to remember that small changes can have a big impact. Thus, given that our feeds have been doing a decent job this far, they haven’t changed much from their austere beginnings.
Decent isn’t great, though. So, as the team’s semi-official (and published!) feed junkie, I’ve been working on some small improvements. I’ve been looking into how our feeds are used and how to better streamline and present our information in different contexts. These improvements include features like:
- including tag descriptions in feed titles and descriptions where available;
- offering the ability to save bookmarks straight from your feed reader;
- displaying an up-to-date count of saves, without making items appear new again in feed readers;
- building more useful feed content with links to people, tags, and more bookmark details;
- providing more metadata where it seems useful, or less where it appears redundant.
And, this is just the start. We’re rolling these changes out gradually, on a per-user-agent basis, and we’re planning for more. So, if you don’t see any improvements in your favorite feed reader yet—or if the changes haven’t quite hit their mark for you—be sure to contact us and let us know!
March 21st, 2007
Sometimes one word just isn’t enough to know what a tag really means. For example, when I was working as an IT administrator for a non-profit agency, I was scrambling to find a free or low-cost tracking system I could use to manage their IT issues in a sane fashion. I went into research mode and bookmarked a lot of sites under my “issuetracking” tag. Now, looking back, I wish I could comment a little on that tag about what I found and what I ultimately decided to do… but how? Enter our latest feature: tag descriptions.
For any of your tags, you can now add a public title and description to appear at the top of the page. It may just be to remind yourself of what it is or to tell others more about it. To get started, just visit one of your tags and click “create description” (at the top). As always, we don’t presume to know exactly how you’ll use this or what about it will be most valuable to you, so we welcome your feedback and suggestions!
March 14th, 2007
Being a blogger, one of my long-standing wishlist items for del.icio.us has been to find some way to get more of what’s going on here to show up out there. Instead of just simple links, I’ve wanted to get a bit of peek through the keyhole to see just what “save to del.icio.us” means and what others are doing with it on my pages. So, I’m happy to cross this item off my list and introduce a new version of the usual social bookmarking button that we’re dubbing the ‘Tagometer.’
what’s a tagometer?
These are some snapshots of what the Tagometer looks like. Like simpler static widgets, it includes a button inviting readers to bookmark your page on del.icio.us. The Tagometer opens things up from there - using a JSON data feed from del.icio.us, the Tagometer includes an up-to-date count of others who’ve already bookmarked the page, as well as a fresh list of the top tags applied.
Visitors can click on the count to see more detail on who bookmarked your page, when they did it, and how they tagged it. The list of tags shows visitors why your page is interesting, and clicking on a tag takes them to similar sites on del.icio.us.
how do i get one?
At the time of this launch, you’ve got an out-of-box choice of two CSS-based presentations shown in screenshot form above:
- A rectangular badge, suitable for sidebars and inset information displays.
- A single line, intended for use at the end of stories and blog entries.
Whichever one you choose, you can copy our example code for either of these and just paste it into your pages or templates. The Tagometer will automatically populate itself from the location and title it finds on the page where you’ve given it a home.
If you’ve got a bit more advanced DOM scripting, JSON, and CSS chops - try taking a look under the hood. The folks over at FeedBurner, for instance, have already built a new FeedFlare unit that incorporates the JSON feed data. We’re trying out a few new things here that should make customizing the Tagometer easier for web developers, while at the same time working to maintain a simple copy-and-paste option.
Try it out, let us know what you think, and tell us if you’ve got any ideas on improving this new tool.
December 20th, 2006
Take a look at your settings — you know, the link up in the top right corner of any page when you’re logged in. It’s not cryptic anymore! Your settings pages are where you have all kinds of interesting options: importing and exporting bookmarks, enabling private saving, managing tags, and more. The pages used to be a little secretive about which option did what, so I’ve completely revised them to be much friendlier. For example, did you know you can put a Creative Commons license on the RSS feeds for your bookmarks?
August 31st, 2006
Sometimes you know exactly what you’re looking for, while other times you might be in the mood for a surprise. This week, del.icio.us Randomizer Buttons were born to satisfy your need for novelty: Each time you hit the Randomizer Button, del.icio.us will bounce you to a random new page recently bookmarked by other del.icio.us users.
By visiting the help page devoted to del.icio.us Randomizer Buttons, you can grab a bookmarklet of your own to start adding some spice to your surfing.
August 8th, 2006
It’s refreshing when a simple idea translates easily into a practical feature. That’s just what happened with our new “active users” section on pages like /tag/politics and /popular/osx: now when you’re viewing a tag of interest, you can easily see frequent users of that tag who you might want to check out for more juicy, hand-picked links. If you find someone interesting, just add them to your network to keep up. Is this the beginning of something great? Let us know what you think.
August 7th, 2006
Many of you have been using your network to keep up with the interesting things that other people are bookmarking. Many of you are also starting to notice that you have “fans” – people who like your bookmarks and have added you to their networks. This feature of del.icio.us is getting popular enough now that we wanted to make it easier for you to grow your network and to tell the world how connected you are.
With that in mind, today we rolled-out our Network Badge! This new badge allows you to tell people about your network from your own Web site or blog. These details can include your user name on del.icio.us with a link to your bookmarks, how many people you have in your network, how many fans you have, as well as a link others can use to easily add you to their own del.icio.us networks.
Like Tagrolls and Linkrolls, Network Badges are JavaScript includes that you can copy and paste into your site’s HTML or your blog’s templates. By visiting its help page, you can customize the content and appearance of your Network Badge and get HTML code for insertion into your own pages.
So get networking!
August 3rd, 2006
Because many of you have asked for it, we have just rolled-out a beta of our private saving feature. To try it out, go to “settings” and click on “private saving” to activate; you’ll then see the new option whenever you save a page.
This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to discourage that, we will be watching how this feature impacts the community and will also be experimenting a bit with the UI over the next few weeks.
So if you’re one of those antisocial types who doesn’t like to share their toys, this one’s for you. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
March 19th, 2006
- We’ve finally re-done our help section. An RSS feed for new features and changes will be coming soon.
- Include your tags in your blog via our new tagroll.
- Navigating is now easier with editable breadcrumbs.
- Hardcore Internet Explorer fans can rock-out style with an Active Channel feed. Gopher support is under consideration.
November 13th, 2005
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