Delicious is four years old today. Happy birthday! We've obviously got some big things coming soon, but to commemorate the occasion, here are some early screenshots I recently uncovered; one picture is probably within the first one hundred bookmarks saved.
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delicious is four today
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taste test
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Fresh news from deep within Tag Mountain: we just launched an early, limited Preview of the Delicious redesign we’ve been working on for the past few months. We’ve refreshed the UI, built an entirely new (and faster) search engine, and added numerous improvements based on your feedback. The goal of this Preview is to get feedback from our users about the design changes and also start to put our new platform through the paces.The initial invite list is already full, but we will likely be adding more openings in the near future. Check your links for you to see if you’re in the first round (sorry to be so indirect about it, but our privacy policy doesn’t allow us to email users about this sort of thing and we take that very seriously). If you don’t see the invite link but are interested in taking a look and giving us some feedback, you can add your username to the list.
We’ll be posting updates to this blog throughout the Preview process to keep everyone informed of what we’re learning. Thanks for your feedback and support!
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just your type
» del.icio.usOur friends over at Six Apart write:
If you have a TypePad blog, you can now make it easy for your readers to bookmark your stories on del.icio.us by automatically including a "save to del.icio.us" link in your post footers -- without having to learn a single line of template code. Just sign into your account, navigate to your blog's design tab, choose "Select Content" and configure your post footer.
In the past, we had a lot of questions from TypePad bloggers about how they could do
this themselves, and instead of having them convert to Advanced
Templates and copy and paste template code into their blogs, we wanted
to save them the hassle and just do it as an option in the application.If you're using TypePad's advanced template feature (and you know who you are), not to fear -- del.icio.us has lots of options for adding your own savebuttons to your posts. Hint: you can use the template code that del.icio.us has for Movable Type, it will work just fine in your TypePad blog.
Michael Sippey
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that was fast
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by conradh. We passed our two millionth user signup at the beginning of this month. Because we've been very busy keeping up with the load, we didn't have time to come up with something up to our normally high standard of wit (I was going to refer to server smoke but it seems I did that last time) so here is a cat picture I found on the internet. -
overdue new year's resolutions
» del.icio.usWe've been busy: since our announcement in september of our millionth signup, another half-million users have joined the fun. And because of this, we've been more quiet then I would like, and I want to apologize.
It feels that we've spent almost all of our time uncomfortably bursting at the seams; we've always been at pretty much close to capacity. We've worked very hard to keep the system as stable as possible and as fast as possible in that time. However, I feel that during this very exciting time for the team I've personally had less capacity for talking more openly to the delicious community about what's been going on. Given that we've undergone a lot of changes and have a lot more in store in the future, I want to resolve to be better about communicating.
For starters, even though it feels like we've been doing less feature work, we still have been doing weekly releases to improve performance (the new Firefox extension gets a new revision every few days it seems). Going forward, we're going to be talking much more about what's changed, where the bugs are, and in general, more explicit about what we're doing.
While we've done some integration work with Yahoo, it's now time to do more meaningful joint development work to take advantage of all the great technology that a company that does one hojillion hits a day has at its disposal. Doing this is pretty involved, and we're going to take the opportunity to redo things like the UI and fix many of the less-beloved historical design quirks that still linger from my original implementation. Doing such large changes in the dark is, I think, a huge mistake, and I want to try to have a phased rollout so that everyone can get comfortable as we figure out what the future product looks like.
Late last year, our team was joined by Abe's team, whose previous project was the backend for the new Yahoo Photos and MyWeb 1 before that. These guys know scalability like nobody's business. On the front-end, we've been joined by Erik and his team of all-around asskickers. And Patrick has built a team to develop a new set of browser plugins that allow for much deeper browser integration. I have high hopes that our expanded team will be able to release a new and tastier delicious someday in the not-too distant future.
We've still got many questions to answer -- Commas or spaces? In what way should we allow logins from Yahoo!? How should a next-generation API work? Should we do something about the dots in the name? and many more, and I look forward to figuring these things out with you in the future.
Here's to a new year and a lot more conversation.
Joshua
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im in ur serverz, upgradin ur bookmarkz
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As part of our efforts to make del.icio.us even faster, we’re moving to a new set of servers this Sunday (12/17). This will require a brief site outage, which will begin at 12:00 noon Pacific and is expected to last two hours. We will be posting updates to this blog throughout the process. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience. We’ll get it done as fast as possible.Updates:
12:10 PST We've brought the site down and have begun doing upgrades.
12:46 PST Adding more servers ...
1:05 PST Reticulating splines
1:51 PST Almost done, working on a few problems
1:59 PST Getting ready to bring the site back up
2:06 PST Brought RSS back up
2:23 PST Brought API back up
2:38 PST Main site is back up. Doing some cleanup behind the scenes.
3:06 PST All done. Please let us know if you see any problems.
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microconference
» del.icio.usBecause we don't all get together enough and talk about important nerd topics, we and our Yahoo! compatriots have started a series of microconferences, entitled confab.yahoo, which will be open to all and be held in the evenings and early in the week (so you don't have the excuse of needing to go to important parties).
The first in this series, on Dec 13 at 5:30pm, is a discussion on Prediction Markets, moderated by James Surowiecki. Please sign up and join me next week.
A prediction market is like a stock market for ideas or information. The market rewards good information whether it comes from elites or the masses. Prediction markets have built a track record of besting pundits and pollsters when it comes to predicting everything from political elections to quarterly sales figures.
From the announcement:
Join us for a public “how to” session on prediction markets1 moderated by James Surowiecki, New Yorker columnist and best-selling author of The Wisdom of Crowds.
Bo Cowgill from Google, Leslie Fine from HP, Todd Proebsting from Microsoft, and Dave Pennock from Yahoo! will describe how they are using prediction markets to aid corporate forecasting and decision making.
Other speakers include Chris Hibbert, the developer of Zocalo, an open source prediction market platform; Adam Siegel, the co-founder of InklingMarkets.com, a Paul Graham yCombinator startup, and Robin Hanson, the visionary economist and inventor whose pioneering work paved the way.
The event will emphasize practical lessons and hands-on advice. After brief presentations from each speaker, Surowiecki will open up the session for discussion with the audience.
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help wanted
» del.icio.usIt's hiring season again at del.icio.us, and we're looking to bring a few more engineers on board at our cushy Santa Clara offices. If you are a PHP god, javascript hacker, a database wizard, a UI guru, or a uber C++ ninja, let us know. As the team is so small, entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to learn new things are also a requirement. Finally, enthusiasm for del.icio.us is a BIG plus, as we're a small team where everyone has a voice and the chance to affect the direction of the product.
Perks are vast and too numerous to spell out here, but include a team t-shirt, a formidable supply of stickers and bookmarks, infinite coffee, and the opportunity to learn a lot, have fun, drink infinite coffee, and change the world. Please send your resume to jobs@del.icio.us along with a cover letter describing why you think you'd be a great addition to the team.
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now serving: 1,000,000
» del.icio.usNot even a week after turning three, del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of smoke coming from the server rack seems to eerily confirm it). Thanks to each and every one of you for making all this possible. Now we have one more thing to celebrate at the party next week...
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now with 50% more candles
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Del.icio.us is three years old today! It's started making friends and will hopefully be out of diapers soon.For those of you in the Bay Area, we're planning a birthday bash for early October - keep an eye out!
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