Comments on: Why is del.icio.us trapped in amber? http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/ Bryan O'Sullivan's blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Evans » Blog Archive » The Next Google? How about Del.icio.us? http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/comment-page-1/#comment-98398 Mark Evans » Blog Archive » The Next Google? How about Del.icio.us? Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:45:55 +0000 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/#comment-98398 [...] be resolved or del.icio.us has no chance of emerging as a search engine player. Rather than keep on doing nothing with del.icio.us, Yahoo needs to give del.icio.us a makeover and present it in a much different [...] [...] be resolved or del.icio.us has no chance of emerging as a search engine player. Rather than keep on doing nothing with del.icio.us, Yahoo needs to give del.icio.us a makeover and present it in a much different [...]

]]> By: Neil K http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/comment-page-1/#comment-88078 Neil K Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:15:56 +0000 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/#comment-88078 Hi there. I work at Yahoo, on Upcoming.org. Day job is PHP, but I'm a Haskell wannabe. I've worked at two of the giant startup-hoovering Silicon Valley companies so far, and this seems to be a rule. Whenever something gets acquired, there's at least a year of infrastructure upgrades and revisions. Delicious 2.0 will be a massive upgrade, from the point of view of reliability and scalability. Getting acquired by a big, stable, cash-rich company buys the startup time in order to make these changes. Often, that was the whole point of being acquired. Also, you're not correct about Yahoo "not knowing what they want to do" with Delicious. They are a big part of Yahoo's search strategy. I know those guys and they have big plans for the future. Hi there. I work at Yahoo, on Upcoming.org. Day job is PHP, but I’m a Haskell wannabe.

I’ve worked at two of the giant startup-hoovering Silicon Valley companies so far, and this seems to be a rule. Whenever something gets acquired, there’s at least a year of infrastructure upgrades and revisions. Delicious 2.0 will be a massive upgrade, from the point of view of reliability and scalability.

Getting acquired by a big, stable, cash-rich company buys the startup time in order to make these changes. Often, that was the whole point of being acquired.

Also, you’re not correct about Yahoo “not knowing what they want to do” with Delicious. They are a big part of Yahoo’s search strategy. I know those guys and they have big plans for the future.

]]> By: Jason McCandless http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/comment-page-1/#comment-87649 Jason McCandless Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:02:32 +0000 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/#comment-87649 Well, I guess you're happy to see that there's a brand spanking new delicious just on the horizon. If you haven't already seen what it looks like, there are screenshots up on techcrunch. Well, I guess you’re happy to see that there’s a brand spanking new delicious just on the horizon. If you haven’t already seen what it looks like, there are screenshots up on techcrunch.

]]> By: Nick Mudge http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/comment-page-1/#comment-75747 Nick Mudge Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:59:37 +0000 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/#comment-75747 del.icio.us has improved since its acquisition. For instance, before the acquisition del.icio.us was a lot slower and sometimes almost too slow. It now enables you to see who has added you to their network. It added graphics next to the stories on the front pages: http://del.icio.us/ Once or twice I've seen ads on del.icio.us. As del.icio.us has been very successful, I don't think it makes sense to change the way del.icio.us works, or change the interface unless it is little things that helps the user do what he/she already does. It makes sense to add more peripheral functionality, which is something del.icio.us has worked on, for instance the <a href="http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2007/04/making_firefox_.html" rel="nofollow">embedded firefox interface for del.icio.us</a>. del.icio.us has improved since its acquisition. For instance, before the acquisition del.icio.us was a lot slower and sometimes almost too slow. It now enables you to see who has added you to their network. It added graphics next to the stories on the front pages: http://del.icio.us/

Once or twice I’ve seen ads on del.icio.us.

As del.icio.us has been very successful, I don’t think it makes sense to change the way del.icio.us works, or change the interface unless it is little things that helps the user do what he/she already does.

It makes sense to add more peripheral functionality, which is something del.icio.us has worked on, for instance the embedded firefox interface for del.icio.us.

]]> By: Joshua Ball http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/comment-page-1/#comment-71043 Joshua Ball Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:43:46 +0000 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/08/11/why-is-delicious-trapped-in-amber/#comment-71043 Have you tried Simpy? http://www.simpy.com/about It's ugly (imho), but it has all of the features of del.icio.us, and more (full text search, social features, private bookmarks, broken link detection). I switched a year ago, the del.icio.us import was painless. Have you tried Simpy? http://www.simpy.com/about

It’s ugly (imho), but it has all of the features of del.icio.us, and more (full text search, social features, private bookmarks, broken link detection). I switched a year ago, the del.icio.us import was painless.

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