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Writer's pictureFahad H

The New Delicious.com Is Now Live & Looks Like A Winner


After giving users a

sneak peek last month, the new owners of Delicious.com have launched the new version of the venerable bookmarking site.

On first glance, it looks like they have a winner on their hands.

Going to the home page today should show a small pop-up window introducing the new site to both users and non-account holders. If you have an account already, logging in will bring up another overlay with a couple quick tips about using the new site.

Content discovery looks like a cross between the old Digg and a page of Google search results. The far right column shows a preview of the bookmarked page and occasionally shows other users that bookmarked the link, or their comments on the link.

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Some of the new features were previewed on the Delicious blog a couple weeks ago. They include an “omnibox search bar” that offers multiple search types from a single box — you can search for users by including the @ symbol, or tags by including the # symbol, for example. Other new features include keyboard shortcuts to quickly browse through content and a new profile page.

I also think the import/export options are new. You can connect Delicious with your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts and have any links you share on those networks saved to your Delicious account.

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When saving those social links, you can choose to make them public or private, and you can also add specific tags. That could be a great way for marketers to curate the links they’ve shared socially for future reference.

Even during the past couple years of uncertainty — while Yahoo shut down several of its properties and users waited to find out what AVOS would do after buying Delicious — the site remained a good source of content ideas for bloggers and marketers.

And now, with a new site that looks good and offers several functional improvements, Delicious seems ready to make a comeback … if it can convince users to return.

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