Remember Delicious? They rolled out an update today
When Yahoo! launched acquired Delicious it was all about saving bookmarks to a remote location so that you could access them on any computer system with Internet access. The site grew in popularity quickly as it also offered options to explore popular bookmarks or search across all public bookmarks at once, even without account.
Delicious, just like Digg, the other big player back then, dropped in popularity over the years. It is likely that the integration of bookmark synchronization in popular web browsers played a role, but also neglect from the site's parent company.
Yahoo! eventually decided to shut down Delicious, but instead of doing so, it sold the web service instead. The new owners of Delicious have just launched a site update to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the website.
Delicious 2.0
If you have used Delicious in the past but have not been on the site for a couple of months or even years - heck, my last bookmark dates back to 2008 - you are probably wondering what has changed in the meantime.
You will notice that the entire site is now using a single-column layout, with a menu being displayed on demand on the left. It is a streamlined design that puts the focus on links, search and tags so that users can quickly navigate their saved links, links of their network, or from social media.
Other new features include double-clicking on any link to add it to your bookmarks collection or edit it instead if it is one of yours, new tag and tag bundle links at the top of every page, and a personalized discover feed if you link the Delicious account to your Twitter account.
There is more than that though. You can now tag multiple bookmarks at once, access your personal tag cloud again, or look at bookmark stats to find out how popular each individual link is.
Delicious has published a video that highlights the major changes in the update:
New users can import bookmarks using the import feature that is listed in the options. This can be useful to get all bookmarks of a web browser on to the site in one smooth operation.
You are probably wondering who is going to use Delicious? It can be useful if you work on public computer systems at times and want to access your bookmarks on these systems as well. Browser syncing does not do you any good in this scenario.
It may also be handy as a tool to save articles that you are interested in, a read it later of sorts without cluttering your bookmarks or installing an extension to use it.
Closing Words
Delicious is nowhere near as popular as it was years ago, but it is still has a rank of 1103 on Alexa at the time of writing which indicates that it still gets a solid amount of traffic. It is still an option for users who want to save bookmarks on the Internet, or use a third party site to save articles and other website links they are interested in.
Anyone still using Delicious? If so, for what exactly?
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.