techcrunch.com — Unique visitors have dropped by 22%, and page viewshave dropped by a whopping 75%, erasing all gains in traffic thisyear. Del.icio.us is effectively at the same traffic levels as theywere when it was acquired in December 2005
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mikebrittonAug 4, 2006
I think it's a PR stunt too, but a good one, and for a good cause. For those who base their judgments on a cursory glance of their site without even delving into bundles, del.icio.us may seem unappetizing. Because there are people who understand how awesome and useful it is and realize that sharing your bookmarks is like sharing your code, del.icio.us will always be around. Statistics can say anything you want them to, anyway.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2006
What the hell is del.icio.us?
raj3Aug 4, 2006
My thoughts exactly. An import left me with over 1000 untagged bookmarks, and the ones that were tagged had no descriptions.The thing is, the automatic tagging is done by picking up the popular tags from other users who also bookmarked that site. So if you have an obsure link like say, a forum post, a permalinked article in a blog or maybe a popular page but with a referal on the URL, that entry will just get dumped under system:unfiled. Also the entries that do get tagged don't get described automatically. Not to mention the "popular tags" that your imports automatically get aren't always perfect. My del.icio.us is a total mess right now, hopefully they will fix the importing feature so I can try again.
revolvedAug 4, 2006
Blinklist.com
lagged2deathAug 4, 2006
Looks like I found an answer myself.It just so happens that Opera allows one to type a description for every bookmark. It just to happens that Opera also has a very fast bookmark search-as-you-type feature. It just so happens that this search includes the bookmark's description field. Together, these add up to something very much like tagged bookmarks, built right in to the browser. It just so happens that I use Opera. I'll have to give this a try.<a class="user" href="http://www.designdetector.com/2005/10/the-future-of-bookmarks.php">http://www.designdetector.com/2005/10/the-future-of-bookmarks.php</a>
himselfAug 5, 2006
If we only had a big enough truck! Damned net neutrality nuking
himselfAug 5, 2006
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ileadyouthAug 5, 2006
Read my above post, it is very possible they have the two domains aliased and then redirected with a 301 - which puts both eggs in the same basket statistics wise - they are no longer 2 different entities. Google COULD do the same thing with gewgle.com if they wanted to. Don't mod it as innacurate because you don't know how their server is setup.