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del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network

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I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of the year by MIT Technology Review Magazine.

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But Joshua has bigger plans for del.icio.us - it will essentially turn into a social network, with more focus on people instead of data. I learned this when I asked Joshua what kind of new functionality we can expect to see from delicious over the coming 6-12 months? Joshua replied:

"One of the amazing things about our users is how smart and far-reaching their interests are. While delicious previously has been very much about just the data, in the future I hope to allow our users themselves to come forward within the system. Additionally, I want to help people connect with others within the system, either to people they already know or discovering new people and communities based on interest."

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There it is, a recommendation for users to look at, and maybe add to your Watchlist, or perhaps invite to join a Group, based on link and tag similarities.

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Saving links has always been and will continue to be the focus and primary value of the system.

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"Delicious is about extending memory and saving things for yourselves and others. Stumbleupon is much more about surfing, like TV, or maybe Tivo."

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I have a feeling that the added "people" aspect to the social bookmarks won't really be enough to create communities. Doing so will just make it magnolia. The one edge it has is the traction.

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they should implement a last.fm-like algorithm to provide recommendations regarding what users are the closest to you in terms of interests based on the number of shared links or shared tag frequencies in your respective portfolios.

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I need is a del.icio.us beginning to incorporate professional resumes, dating-style profiles or the possibility to incorporate shoutboxes or similar "social networking" glue.

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Capitalise on the acquisition by using the contributions of your information professional userbase to cultivate and seed the catalogue of your Overture search engine but don't make the mistake of thinking that del.icio.us can become some sort of glitzy, mainstream user attractor.

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groups and commenting would be a great addition to the Del.icio.us system. Maybe clusters of URLs similar to Flickr

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Of course Stumbleupon has more users, it's a button to click when you're bored, doesn't require a lot of action on the users part and the results are gratifying in an eye-candy sort of way.

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Next - del.icio.us to offer personality profiling matchmaking based on bookmarks
Mark Brooks
http://www.OnlinePersonalsWatch.com

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online social network is defined as a website where one connects with those sharing common interests - be it personal or professional. after friendster, there have been a rapid increase in the number of social networks in the market. few, however, were able to achieve (and maintain) an acceptable member density. the social network's structure and setup, in addition to its shared interests, determine its usefulness to its individual members, hence their loyalty and participation.

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Amongst many other things we're working on, we're going to make it a bit easier to find people and a bit easier to share with people in a few different ways.

We're not going to make radical changes to the primary goal of the system. Instead, we have been listening to what people are trying to do and will make that a bit easier. That includes finding people you already know and so on.

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Recently on Read/WriteWeb we did a post comparing the top social bookmarking services, which showed that del.icio.us was behind StumbleUpon in terms of users. del.icio.us announced a couple of weeks ago that they have 1,000,000 users, while StumbleUpon claims 1,271,345. I asked Joshua what he thought the differences were between del.icio.us and StumbleUpon.

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"Similar users" feature on Simpy.

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I think what Joshua is talking about is expanding this into a more full-featured social networking system - with commenting, groups, etc. Perhaps similar to Imeem, which combines content browsing with social networking.

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