Nov 6 2008
Delicious is 5!
Yes, it’s kind of hard to believe, but we’ve been chugging along for five years now. In that time a huge number of people have made Delicious a part of their online lives. We’re now up to 5.3 million users. And with over 180 million unique URLs saved, together we have built a community resource that just keeps getting more interesting and more useful.
We took some major steps forward this year, including launching the new Delicious, releasing our new Internet Explorer add-on, and making major updates to our Firefox add-on.
Thanks for your continued support, and thanks for using Delicious!
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Jeton | Nov 6 2008 at 9:18 am
Thank you for a great service! For more years to come.
P.S. Yahoo search blog says you have 5.8 million, while here is 5.3.
Don’t want to be a number nazi but still.
Doug Richardson | Nov 6 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m not exactly sure how I used to bookmark before delicious, but I think it involved saving a ton of stuff, never being able to find it, and then losing it all when I my hard drive crashed.
Thanks for the great service and happy birthday!
Francisco Espinoza | Nov 6 2008 at 10:26 am
Really thanks for amazing service!!! and…
Happy Birthday!
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Delicious cumple 5 años … | Nov 6 2008 at 10:49 am
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gabo | Nov 6 2008 at 11:07 am
Well, happy birthday, every year I find it more valuable than ever.
Keep up the good work.
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Nicola D'Agostino | Nov 6 2008 at 11:25 am
Auguri Delicious! :)
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peter | Nov 6 2008 at 11:26 am
Happy birthday !!!
Is there a plugin or widget for Opera planned ? or even a combination/coöperation with Opera Link ?
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sushimustwrite | Nov 6 2008 at 12:54 pm
Happy birthday, Delicious! You’ve come a long way. You’ve made using more than one computer so much easier.
Stephen Hood | Nov 6 2008 at 1:03 pm
@Jeton — Thanks for catching that; we fixed the Yahoo post. 5.3M is the correct number. You’re not a number nazi — think of yourself more as a number “UN Observer”. :)
Anon | Nov 6 2008 at 1:36 pm
Would it be possible to know:
How many of those users are (known) spammers?
How many of those URLs are to spam sites?
What is the estimated percentage of users who are suspect spammers?
Thanks.
Delicious cumple 5 años… | Nov 6 2008 at 2:40 pm
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Ryan Selvy | Nov 6 2008 at 3:51 pm
As far as the east coast is concerned, delicious is still a secret gem. I haven’t didn’t use it for the longest time, but now I can’t live without it. Thanks for all you do, and spread the word!
maqingxi | Nov 6 2008 at 4:45 pm
Happy Birthday!
AD PR New York | Nov 6 2008 at 6:03 pm
We’ve been with you since the beginning of Year One.
You just keep getting better and better :-D
Aaron | Nov 6 2008 at 6:54 pm
Happy birthday Delicious — and goodbye.
After three years of using this service to keep readers of my blog updated, I can no longer tolerate the erratic and unhelpful behavior of Delicious since its vaunted recent “upgrade.” My posting bookmarklet now asks me to log in with annoying frequency — not every “2 weeks” (though I do not understand why that change was mandated, either), but sometimes every 2 days.
You know, maybe I was just an anomalous user for Delicious. I actually used it to build content for my home page using a customized version of its headline badge. I loved it because I could write my own exciting headlines and not settle for the dull ones at the sites I was linking my readers to.
Eventually, though, I found Google Reader’s feature set more to my liking, as I could scan 1000 headlines and with one click, publish them to my blog. Even then, however, I continued to use Delicious to generate customized headlines that I could then approve in Reader.
Still, I always thought Delicious should have been smoothly integrated with Yahoo’s search and RSS functionality to create a Google Reader on steroids. Instead, Yahoo decided to keep Delicious pretty much as a one-trick pony. Even worse, it kept its login separate from Yahoo — which is doubly unfortunate because at least for me, login is broken. It doesn’t keep me signed in for 2 weeks.
Delicious, in short, joins Flickr as products that have made remarkably little progress since being sucked into the Yahoo pod. That, and the recent downgrade in ease of use brought about by the “upgrade,” have forced me to move on. When I release my new website design later this month, for the first time since mid-2005 it will not have Delicious in it.
ani625 | Nov 6 2008 at 7:00 pm
Congrats delicious!
This remains one my favs despite its recent ‘downgrade’.
(was THE fav before)
deuts | Nov 6 2008 at 7:42 pm
Now, the next steps should be custom domain names for your delicious account and the ability to customize the design.
Long way to go delicious….hehe
zhuobing | Nov 6 2008 at 8:01 pm
thx for your great job!
wish delicious get much better in the feture~
Michael | Nov 6 2008 at 8:22 pm
Congratulations, thanks, and good luck! I hope you’re getting a little more sleep these days. By the way, nice graphic!
Best to all,
M.
arie | Nov 6 2008 at 10:40 pm
Congratulations, thanks, and good luck! Keep up the good work!
I’m one of your Active User Delicious… I always use my Terminal to add my bookmark.
Sebastian Kurt | Nov 6 2008 at 11:23 pm
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag aka Happy Birthday!
But please be innovative again, there are so much new feature outside, build in some of them, please!
arnet | Nov 7 2008 at 12:09 am
Happy birthday! & thanks joshua schachter!!!
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Justin Mason | Nov 7 2008 at 3:26 am
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Alex D | Nov 7 2008 at 6:33 am
Happy bday, delicious changed my life. Specially when I had to format my computer.
– Alex
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Nicolas Voisin | Nov 7 2008 at 9:09 am
Great people for positiv practices ;-)
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Josh Atkins | Nov 7 2008 at 11:34 am
Happy birthday guys, thanks for a great service!
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tenveer | Nov 7 2008 at 3:26 pm
die hard fan of ur service ….
cheers for 5 …….mat it be 1000000000000 ???n i still alive to use it ;-)
Chris | Nov 7 2008 at 3:29 pm
You guys ROCK! Best bookmarking service, hands down. Congratulations!
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Rogério | Nov 7 2008 at 4:37 pm
Feliz aniversário!
Adoro o serviço. Espero que o site invista mais seriamente na internacionalização nos próximos cinco anos. Para os que falam outros idiomas a língua em que foram escritos os tags é um sério obstáculo ao crescimento do número de usuários e da rede de contatos. Obrigado.
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Happy birthday!
I love this service.
I hope the next 5 years site crew could work seriously on internationalization. For those who tag using another language, availability of user’s native tongue is a serious obstacle to network growing.
Thaks.
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zendyani | Nov 7 2008 at 8:09 pm
Long life to Delicious
Sushant Srivastava | Nov 7 2008 at 10:41 pm
Delicious is great. I’ve been using it for four years now and loving it all the same.
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Spork | Nov 8 2008 at 5:36 am
Yeah, that’s great and all. But, with Yahoo circling the drain, and no big, fat, Google dollars coming anymore, how much longer can we trust our bookmarks to the unstable cloud of a web 2.0 dot-com buyout that might get shuttered, ala AOL’s apps, any day now?
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Britta Gustafson | Nov 9 2008 at 1:02 am
Spork: We’re here to stay. :)
Piour | Nov 9 2008 at 8:13 am
HB, gratz and thx :)
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Mike Cipriano | Nov 9 2008 at 10:42 pm
Thanks for a great service. All of our technology staff at pharmITech uses delicious and finds it a great tool. Keep up the good work.
Mike Cipriano
pharmITech Ltd.
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Daniel Serra | Nov 10 2008 at 8:58 am
Congratulations!!
You’ve made my online experience much more easy and rich.
Thanks
Daniel
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Flüge | Nov 11 2008 at 5:20 am
Congratulations!! Delicious certainly has great efforts for the whole WEB 2.0 thing that happens and influences our lives so much. Great work, keep at it!
Spork | Nov 11 2008 at 12:32 pm
Sure you are.
David, Business Technology Roundtable | Nov 11 2008 at 3:38 pm
Still one of the most useful social bookmarking tools. Happy Birthday Delicious!
Erik | Nov 15 2008 at 3:24 pm
Any plans for Opera support? The delicious add-on for firefox 3 is really the only reason I keep the browser on my computer at all. Opera 9.6 is just so much better.
Ben | Nov 16 2008 at 11:37 am
Thank you delicious. I couldn’t live without you!!!!
Zencow | Nov 16 2008 at 8:27 pm
Why the hell does delicious log me out every two weeks? I don’t want that feature. I want to be logged it all the time. Is that so hard to implement????
Justin T. | Nov 18 2008 at 7:33 pm
Delicious is awesome! I never could live without it. I can use my links forever and never lose them. Firefox often dumps my bookmarks, so I always use Delicious.
Yves Junqueira | Nov 18 2008 at 8:38 pm
Forgive the off-topic, but Delicious.com appears to be down now.
We only realize how important a service is to our day-to-day life when we can’t use it.
Keep up the good work, but please bring Delicious.com back up :-).
Britta Gustafson | Nov 18 2008 at 9:44 pm
Erik: We don’t have plans at the moment for a full add-on for Opera, but thanks for asking! It’s always good to hear what people are interested in.
Zencow: We made this change to follow standard security practice here; there are a few more details in the forum.
Yves Junqueira: Hmm, seems fine now. What error were you getting?
valeria | Nov 19 2008 at 2:43 am
Delicious is very fast and easy to use!It’s so cute!
But I have a little problem; now I’m using opera browser(release 9.6) and I’m searching for a widget, i.e. just delicious toolbar!!!I can’t find it!!!
Can you help me?
simon | Nov 19 2008 at 3:44 pm
HEY! All iwant is a way to show some of delicious links in my blogger sidebar so people can see follow links to the latest links my podcast is advertising (I want to add this function to facebook page but expect this is asking too much). I cant seem to make it happen or find the right widget and no-one at delicious or blogger seems to want to respond
PLEASE! I NEED YOUR HELP!
thanks
si
Britta Gustafson | Nov 20 2008 at 2:27 am
valeria: You can use the bookmarklet buttons at http://delicious.com/help/bookmarklets
simon: You may be able to use a linkroll, or use a Blogger RSS widget to import your bookmarks RSS feed (look at the bottom of your bookmarks to see the orange icon with a link to this feed). For the Facebook page, see this thread.
Ingrid | Dec 2 2008 at 7:15 pm
Hey delicious is soo easy to use, yet very necessary
Indus Khaitan | Dec 2 2008 at 10:41 pm
Congrats!
Now, can you keep me logged in on the toolbar for more than ‘2 weeks’ ?
Thx.
Emanuil | Dec 3 2008 at 2:47 am
Congrats! Thanks for the great service. I love your Firefox add-on.
Flüge | Dec 3 2008 at 7:23 am
There will be an Add on con in Mountainview. I am not sure whether you guys know about it, but it would be an awesome oppurtunity to advance developement in the browser branche.
Further information on:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/12/02/ie8-at-add-on-con-in-mountain-view.aspx
joker400 | Dec 3 2008 at 7:48 am
Thank you for a great service!, that this website offering these years
Frederik | Dec 4 2008 at 4:17 pm
Happy Birthday. I like this blueish design so freaking much :-)
Jack | Dec 18 2008 at 11:51 pm
Now the delicious is my only web bookmark, as google tooltar cant set in all computers. So i want to find the things what i have bookmarked. I enter the del.icio.us in IE?
So i think you d better dont try your best on add-ons. As many people hate various strange add-ons in IE.
Keith | Feb 4 2009 at 2:25 pm
I can’t believe I am just trying out Delicious after all of these years. I guess I have not been on the cutting edge of internet use but I am trying to catch up really fast. Thanks for the service on here.
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Jack M. Zufelt- Mentor To Millions | Feb 20 2009 at 7:42 pm
Delicious service is great and as delicious as a dish. Wish you many many happy birthdays to come.
Derek Jennings | Feb 27 2009 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for the great site.
sabrina | Mar 16 2009 at 12:24 am
Thank you for a great service!
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gurung webmaster | Mar 20 2009 at 12:00 pm
Congratulations and happy 5th anniversary to delicious.
I’m one of the delicious fans from Paris and I’m impressed with
the kind of service delicious provides and it’s new nnovations. Hope delicious will keep on discovering new stuff onine for it’s fans worldwide.
YOU ARE RELLY DE.L’ICI.ÖUS. HUMMM!!
Keep growing.
Jacques | Mar 30 2009 at 4:47 am
I’ve been using Delicious for the past two years, and I must say that the change in URL is definitely a welcome one. It is not even funny how many times I had to explain why the URL was written in that way, only to get a phone call later on saying that the person can’t get it right. Simpler is better, and may Delicious grow from strength to strength over the next 5 years!
Flug | May 20 2009 at 5:25 am
Delicious is definitely one of my favorit bookmak-tools. Keep it going on…
Jacques Snyman | Jun 12 2009 at 1:47 am
Delicious, along with StumbleUpon, rate as my favourite social bookmarking site/service. Five years is a long tiome in the world of thge internet, and I foresee loads more where those five came from, with delicious growing from strength to strength.
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Delicious is definitely one of my favorit bookmak-tools. Keep it going on…
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