It’s quite a shame how stagnant the delicious UI has been since acquisition. According to a recent post on the delicious blog, we’re finally supposed to see some changes, but honestly, I’ve lost just about all the excitement I’ve ever had for delcious.
What used to be my favorite web service, something that I used daily and in which I saw massive potential, just got complacent and stagnant after the Yahoo acquisition. I see new competition in the “sharing” internet space all the time–this is a huge part of Tumblr, Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and almost every other popular site. All of these competitors fall somewhere a little bit more toward the “publishing” than “sharing” end of the spectrum, but the 255 character delicious “notes” field that is optional with each bookmark could easily have put delicious in the same category wih all these other platforms.
I suppose I use delicious now more for personal bookmarking, and my social bookmarking or sharing activity happens on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, because that’s where all my friends are. I kind of wish I had a more unified sharing / bookmarking process, but I seem to just post haphazardly across all of these networks, sometimes cross posting, sometimes not. I guess this system is bound to be fragmented.
I wasn’t super excited when I looked at the preview of the new delicious.com, but hopefully they’ve been working hard and have something interesting coming in this next release.
How do you use delicious (if at all)? Do you use it for personal or social bookmarking? How do you share links with your friends–email, facebook, twitter, or some combination of these?
