The New Delicious 2.0 is Here
The popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us launched today. It’s a complete redesign of its service. The company added very few new features since when it was bought by Yahoo in 2005. The new site is mostly focused on enhancing the speed of the service and improving its search capabilities. Del.icio.us can also now be reached at delicious.com and will start using this as its standard URL.
The new features include selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks. Delicious also says that it has improved its speed and making the site more responsive. It has also enhanced its search capabilities. Users can now search within their own tags, another user’s bookmarks, and within their own social network on Delicious.
“Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion,” the company said. “At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn.”
Delicious.com eliminated the dots in the URL to avoid the confusion and misspellings that came from the old one, according to the company. The social bookmarking site has grown from 300,000 to 5 million unique users since Yahoo acquired it late in 2005, the company said. It now boasts 150 million bookmarked links.
Source: ReadWriteWeb
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