The time for sites like Delicious has passed thanks to the fact that sites like Facebook and Twitter have integrated link sharing, while browsers like Firefox and Chrome have integrated bookmark synchronization.<p>If you think about it, that's what Delicious did - bookmark synchronization and sharing. It did them damn well in its time, but that time has passed now - that functionality is integrated into other tools, and there's no demand for a standalone service that just does bookmark sharing/sync.
I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. Delicious' time has passed by but you've got ask why one would acquire old technology. The answer is simple, to do something with it. I'm excited to see what they come up with.
The time for Delicious may be over, but there seems to still be tons of demand. The mismanagement of Delicious created a perfect opportunity for <a href="http://pinboard.in/" rel="nofollow">http://pinboard.in/</a> to step in. I pay for the full archival membership and I highly recommend it.
delicious just never evolved into something really useful. They have so much data but they don't do anything too interesting with it. Where are my personal recommendation for example?
I don't think so. Delicious was never really executed completely, it was always a good concept but I never felt like they fleshed out a lot of features.<p>I would love to see Delicious go through a Renaissance.
They have a perfect platform for social recommendations. They could rival stumbleupon, reddit, and many others utility-wise simply because they have such detailed profiles of all of us based on our bookmarking habits.