D.me: Is this the new Delicious?
AVOS, the company that now owns Delicious, is working on a mysterious site that takes data from Delicious to serve up news, videos and products. Read more at paidContent »
Greplin reinvents itself as Cue, organizes your Internet life
Greplin is getting a facelift and a new name, Cue, a moniker reflecting its new shift away from personal data search toward personal data organization. Rather than merely searching your linked accounts, Cue is now proactively organizing that data into an intelligent snapshot of your day. Read more »
When is the social curation bubble going to burst?
French startup Pearltrees just scored another $6 million to help scale up its social curation service that helps people save, sort and share what they find on the web. But with dozens of services in play, is this a bubble waiting to pop? Read more »
Can Italy’s Circleme outflank recommendation rivals?
Recommendations have become the holy grail of the social web, sparking competition between small services like Pinterest to Amen and large ones like Facebook and Google+. So how can Italian website Circleme elbow in on the action? Read more »
Two weeks in, is the new Delicious fixed?
The relaunch of Delicious was meant to be a phoenix-like resurrection — but instead was welcomed by a chorus of complaints about missing or broken features. After two weeks of scrambling to appease angry users, the company is making some progress… but is it enough? Read more »
Oh, Delicious — where did it all go so wrong?
When the social bookmarking service Delicious relaunched, people were concerned that it looked different. But now a litany of serious complaints is emerging: broken services, missing pages, deleted accounts. Were these mistakes deliberate — or just the result of bad planning? Read more »
Can Web 2.0 stars get a second chance at success?
Some of Web 2.0′s brightest talents are returning with new projects, from revitalized bookmarking sites to fresh online games. But the challenges they face today are different than back in 2005, because the internet is radically changed — not least because of Facebook. Can they succeed? Read more »
Delicious hopes new taste will prove a hit
Sold by Yahoo to the founders of YouTube, social bookmarking service Delicious is one of the great survivors of Web 2.0. But can a revamp convince new users to bookmark the web — and keep the old ones happy at the same time? Read more »
Share and Share Alike: BBC iPlayer Gets More Social
The BBC is adding new ways for iPlayer viewers to share what they’re watching with their friends and social networks, with a new share button. In addition to standard networks like Facebook and Twitter, iPlayer users can now send videos to Delicious, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Read more »
With Tap11 Buy AVOS Is Playing a Big Game With Big Data
AVOS, the new startup run by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, could be targeting the consumer and brand research market with its acquisition of Tap11. Such a move would pit the startup against tech industry stalwarts like Google and Salesforce. Read more »
Can Delicious Solve Our Information Discovery Problem?
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired Delicious, but it sounds like they have something much bigger in mind than just maintaining the service. So what could Delicious become? The key is information discovery, one of the meatiest problems in media right now. Read more »
Stripped-down Bookmarking With Yummymarks
Since Yahoo announced that it was planning to sell off Delicious, I’ve been looking for another bookmarking service. Today, I stumbled across a new useful social bookmarking tool: yummymarks. It’s a stripped-down service that simply enables you to save and access your bookmarks from your browser. Read more »
Painful or Not, Yahoo Is Doing What It Needs To
Some see Yahoo as a slow-motion train wreck, heading inevitably for disaster. But the company is arguably doing exactly what it has to: triage to stanch the bleeding, shutting down or selling off assets, and so on. It may not be pretty, but it is necessary. Read more »
WWD Screencast: How to Export Delicious Bookmarks
The news that Yahoo is planning on shutting its popular social bookmarking service Delicious is concerning, particularly if you’ve used it to store a large number of bookmarks. Fortunately, Delicious makes it really easy to make a backup of your bookmarks as an HTML file: Read more »
5 Delicious Alternatives
According to a leaked presentation, Yahoo is planning on shutting down Delicious. That’s bad news for users of the social bookmarking tool, but fortunately there are several excellent alternatives. While none of them is an exact like-for-like replacement, they offer a selection of useful bookmarking features: Read more »
Yahoo Starts to Hack Off Some Dead Limbs
According to a leaked photo from an all-hands meeting at the web giant, Yahoo is planning to shut down several of its services, including the Delicious bookmarking site, as well as a Digg clone called Yahoo Buzz, and an early blog-based social network called MyBlogLog. Read more »
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Report: NoSQL Databases – Providing Extreme Scale and Flexibility
As the data landscape changes, so must the databases used to gather, store and analyze the rich information within them. Consumer-facing Internet companies are able to scale by using NoSQL data stores, and CIOs can learn from what’s worked for hugely successful web sites. Here, we offer a number of recommendations for enterprise decision makers. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Delicious Tries to Borrow Some Twitter Magic
Yahoo today introduced new features on Delicious, the social-bookmarking site it acquired in 2005, that take a page from the real-time power of Twitter. The updates may help Delicious become more relevant as folks search for real-time info on the web. Among the features are improved […] Read more »
