Okay Geek Farm
Del.icio.us lives and comes 'stacked' with new features
Allen Tyson
When I heard the news a year ago that Yahoo would be shutting down Delicious, I was shocked. Suddenly, bookmarks I had been haphardzly collecting for years were in jeopardy. After trying various sites such as Diphur, and Zootool, I was close to settling on Firefox Sync—but then the YouTube crew had to go and do the unthinkable; buy Delicious. Now Delicious is back (or never left), with a new graphical interface and a fresh new idea that might be worth a second look.
Delicious has re-vamped their social bookmarking site by introducing a concept called stacks something they call “playlists for the web”. Group together your content based upon a general theme, tag it, give a description and share that stack with the web. The ability to see the total number of people viewing links within your stack, as well popularity is still there as a carry over form the Delicious core users are familiar with. The coolest thing about it, to me, is the visual nature of the new stacking technology.
Each stack is given it’s own thumbnail (by you), and then each url added to that stick is pulls a thumbnail from the website which gives an at-a-glance reminder of why you bookmarked that site in the first place. I’m still undecided about what to do, but I like having Delicious back as one of my choices.
In some ways I think Delicious is still very relevant, but with browser based cloud bookmark syncing, is it happening to late? Or do I just worry way too much about bookmarking?
