{"id":8079,"date":"2012-01-27T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2012-02-08T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:57:59","slug":"taste-the-new-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/social-media\/taste-the-new-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste The New Delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s been four months since we checked in on<\/a> the new owners of Delicious. After playing around with the site since some big updates rolled out late last week, let’s see how the new service is doing.<\/p>\n First of all, the whole site has been redesigned from the ground up, as you can see from the Delicious front page<\/a>. It has a much more evident multimedia approach, which you would expect in a service built in 2011\/2012. Also, bookmarks<\/em> have been replaced by links<\/em>. That sounds like a small change, but it’s probably one of the most important. Bookmarks<\/em> are for private, personal use. Links<\/em> have a social element, and you share them with friends. Stacks<\/em>, user-created groups of links, have also been added and are heavily emphasized on the home page. Changing users’ vocabulary is an important step in changing the service’s culture and convincing people that they need this site.<\/p>\n The recent decommissioning of Delicious plugins and browser extensions has raised a lot of eyebrows. Delicious’s team says that the plugins and extensions haven’t been actively hobbled, but they’re not being updated to keep up with site changes. In their place, Delicious has introduced a cross-browser bookmarklet<\/a>, which works on standard browsers and mobile devices. After you find a link you want to save, hit the bookmarklet and you get a popup that looks something like this:<\/p>\n