Comments on: Can Delicious Solve Our Information Discovery Problem?

By: thunderror

thunderror — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:35:29 +0000

Tim’s right. Trunk.ly pretty much provides all that delicious failed to. I’ve been using it ever since Yahoo decided to ditch Delicious. It even takes in data from my Google reader shared items.

By: donnajohnson

donnajohnson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:44:00 +0000

I forgot I had a delicious account. Right after I got the e-mail with the announcement I deleted my account…http://bit.ly/kMgjAR

By: huffygirl

huffygirl — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:27:58 +0000

Somehow I’ve gotten by all this time not even knowing about Delicious. Have I been missing anything? I guess I’ll never know.

Congrats on getting Freshly Pressed, BTW.

By: juli boggs

juli boggs — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:37:04 +0000

As a writer, Delicious has been a great organizational tool for me (especially while traveling) but it really lacks any sort of social interconnectivity, as you’ve said. Any improvement is something to look forward to.

By: Deborah the Closet Monster

Deborah the Closet Monster — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:03:06 +0000

I’ve seen Delicious reference before–even before the acquisition note I saw in the last couple of days–but I’d never actually bothered to see what it was about. I suppose that, too, is thanks to information overload. “Another link to clink? Great.”

I’m interested in the handling and communication of data, but it’s generally an abstract interest. This entry was fascinating to me, so it’s perhaps time to start delving deeper. Thanks!

By: Nicola D'Agostino

Nicola D'Agostino — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:26:52 +0000

“In many ways, services such as Instapaper and Evernote and Twitter’s favorite feature have taken over the space where Delicious used to be a player: they are all ways of keeping track of those web links and photos and other bits of data that we don’t want to lose as the real-time information stream flows past us at a hundred miles an hour. ”

Actually, no. Delicious is all about information archiving _and_ discovery.
Evernote is for _rich_ information archiving, not for discovery. Instapaper is for longform information archiving and Twitter is for fast information discovery.
They are quite different and in many instances can be used as complementary services, provided one invests some time and effort in trying them out and understanding their pros and cons.

nda

By: Leslie Barry | Iphso

Leslie Barry | Iphso — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:46:33 +0000

I agree with Tim. This describes the current Trunk.ly experience perfectly for me:
“a kind of social graph of content in a way: they are implicit signals from all the people who shared those links, or stored them for later, that there is valuable content there. “

By: Harriet Meth

Harriet Meth — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:50:10 +0000

Let’s hope the reinvented Delicious does take us one step further to simplifying the process of information discovery. That said, discovering information is only one piece of the equation. Various streams of information are great but where’s the context that wraps all of those streams together and makes sense out of them? Call it connecting the dots or context, this to me is the key to really making something meaningful out of all of this data. As cynical as we are about the media, they have served this purpose at times, sometimes even getting it right (Disclosure: former journalist). So what’s the next evolution in this process? Mathew I’d really like to hear more of your thoughts on this topic. Thanks.

By: James King

James King — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:17:56 +0000

“This also arguably something that Google should have — or could have — done using its RSS reader as a foundation, but hasn’t.”

But we still hope they will.

By: Mark Hernandez

Mark Hernandez — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:13:11 +0000

“…wants to solve the problem of information overload…”

I had to chuckle at that claim. Extreme statements like this pop up a red flag for me. Everything in the world happens incrementally. But I really want bad for them to please try, try, try!

Furthermore, attempts to “synergize” things have a tough time being successful because each of the independent players will resist being blended in and “disappeared” from view and having their identity stripped away or blurred.

There are so many elements involved that it makes my head hurt when I try to fantasize about generalized solutions, and I think about this a lot.