Does del.icio.us want to be MySpace?
It seems that everyone wants to by MySpace these days, or at least harness the customer-love (read: clickthroughs and eyeballs?) of social networking software. Del.icio.us today announced another increasingly sophisticated iteration of its new social function. Now people who've added you to their contacts list will be visible from your account, etc. Is this how RSS is going to end up being adopted, through means like this? I am perfectly capable of subscribing to peoples' bookmark feeds amongst my many feed subscriptions - but to be honest I almost never look at anything but my archive and other peoples' by tag in del.icio.us. Do readers here foresee themselves using del.icio.us as a social networking app? Perhaps they are getting ready for the hordes of new users that will come in with full Yahoo promotion.
1. Wow!
I would get social with this, being the info junkie I am, Waaaaay before MySpace.
I agree that is is MySpaceish but this is still different and, IMHO, better
Posted at 7:28AM on May 12th 2006 by Lumpy the CyberJunkie