12 December 2005, 09:51 del.icio.us bought by Yahoo!
It was only a matter of time before del.icio.us, the most well-known social bookmarking site, attracted the attention of a bigger company.
del.icio.us has been bought by Yahoo!. Since Yahoo! already has its own social bookmarking service, My Web 2.0, I wonder what this means for del.icio.us. Will it remain a separate product like Flikr or will Yahoo! try to merge it with My Web 2.0? Will Yahoo! be the first company to tag the entire web?
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to post an article to with complaints to del.icio.us. I know there are many fans of del.icio.us out there, so I’ll be gentle…
del.icio.us is a great idea that is poorly executed, from a user experience stand point. There, I’ve said it!. The user interface is horrible, both design-wise and usability-wise. If you need proof, just do a Google search for del.ico.us skin and see how many people are looking to improve the interface. The guys at del.icio.us should learn a ting or two from the guys over at 37 Signals and their online services (BasecampHQ, Backpackit, etc). I’m not only talking about some AJAX magic, del.icio.us needs to re-thing the whole user experience.
Also, I’d really like to have a Firefox extension that will automatically sync local bookmarks with the ones over at del.icio.us. Something that will take over the Firefox bookmarks menu and show tags as its folders or something… Just a thought.
I think they have an important service and I use it daily, but I really hope someone at del.icio.us (or Yahoo!) is reading this article…
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