Bring Back the del.icio.us of Old

Web 2.0 is all about rounded corners, web-based applications, and social networking and sharing. I stumbled upon this phenomenon in 2004, primarily due to a website called del.icio.us.

del.icio.us is a web-based service that allows you to save, tag, and share publicly (or privately) your bookmarks from anywhere. It’s a really useful idea for people who use multiple computers for internet access, but would like to keep all of their links in one place.

Back to the subject at hand, I seem to remember del.icio.us as the one website where I could go and always find something new, interesting, and unique. Most of the things I found were related to Web 2.0, web-development, and blogs. But there were a lot of random "special" websites, like the iPod Death Clock.

Lately, I’ve noticed that when you go to the "Popular" section of bookmarks posted and copied in del.icio.us, it seems almost like a mirror image of Digg. Now don’t get me wrong, I do check Digg a few times a week. It’s just that, a lot of the links that are posted up are whack. It’s hard to describe the quality of the links, but often they are really corny, they lack creativity, they titles that oversell the actual material, etc. Basically, I am disappointed because I see a lot less of the random and imaginative links…

Of course I could be exaggerating, but I don’t think I am too much. And honestly there isn’t much that can be done to "correct" what’s going on. Like many Web 2.0 websites, del.icio.us is driven by user content and user sharing, so it is really the users who define what is "Popular" and what is overlooked. If the majority of active del.icio.us users chose to copy certain bookmarks, who am I to judge? In fact, I am not targeting anyone or the website itself, it’s just something that I noticed.

All the same, I tire of bookmark "headlines" that read: "[X] ways to [verb] from/in/of [noun]" or "MILFs drinking green tea at work!! (NSFW)."

I’d appreciate bringing back the del.icio.us of old.

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