I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by pclark on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @04:44AM (#1356965)

I think that delicious is really awesome. I still use it pretty much every day, even though if anything the product has almost declined in quality over the past few years.

It feels like Delicious could have been the start of something even larger than a bookmark service, it's my primary resource for finding specific content (eg: rails + tutorial, photo + howto, etc.) I'm aware that that is a fairly large technical barrier in terms of how search works, but I feel it proves the potential for something really, really awesome. A real social search engine if you like.

Ever thought about buying it back off Yahoo?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by foomarks on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:23PM (#1361414)

I second this! Please someone buy back Delicious, or make a new one:

+ Delicious is lagging behind in mobile support.

+ Delicious could be taking more advantage of the conversation that people are having in their Notes section.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of the links that are shared between users: help me find users that have similar but unique interests as I do. This would be true social networking on Delicious!

+ Delicious places priority on what is "Hot". This is not terribly useful since a lot of "Hot" links have already made the rounds on Twitter or in my Google Reader first.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of links that are not yet popular but have a strong interest in category niches.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of a user's top 10 tags: it's not an accurate assessment of a user's interest, but it gives me a quick assessment if I want to subscribe to their feed.

(I wish I could make another Delicious, but I'm not a programmer!)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by joshu on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:23AM (#1363380)

I actually did at least several of these. But they forgot how those parts worked and rewrote them poorly.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by joshu on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @05:15AM (#1356992)

I have. But then I'd be the bookmarks guy, and I'd rather go on to do something else.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by gruseom on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @12:14PM (#1357972)

I agree with you. I noticed something about Delicious: when I add a URL, it's rare that someone else hasn't already bookmarked it. That means that Delicious has, to a first approximation, everything interesting on the web. All organized by humans in a rich way. That's an astonishingly valuable data set. Relative to that value, the use that's being made of it is so low it's criminal.

Even if they aren't capable of evolving it, I wish Yahoo would at least make it fast enough that I don't cringe every time I use it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by pclark on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @01:08PM (#1358173)

pretty much every change Yahoo has done has been a step backwards, except for changing the url to delicious.com

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by joshu on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @02:18PM (#1358441)

That was actually my decision! We bought the domain before the acquisition. I think I heard it on the radio as "del issy oos" and knew it had to be changed.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA by pclark on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @04:22PM (#1358905)

dyslexic delicious deviants around the world thank you (i'm not one, i quite liked the exclusive deli.cio.us domain)

(yes that was intentional)

[ Parent | on HN ]