Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking Sports a New Look

Finally, after teasing its loyal users with a new design and interface, social bookmarking site previously known as Del.icio.us, has made its changes official. And it even comes with a new domain name, it is now known as Delicious.com minus the excess dots of the previous site. The old site still works and will point you to the new site. With Delicious new name comes a slew of features which are all geared at making your social bookmarking activities more fund and speedier.

The new features of Delicious can be summed into three major categories:

• Design - the biggest and most obvious change that you will notice when you visit Delicious.com is the new interface. The new site still carries the blue and white theme with tabs. The site is now categorized into three sections - Bookmarks, People and Tags. The Tags tab features My Tags which is a quick way of looking at all the tags you’ve used. More new features relating to the new design can be found here.
• Speed - The page now loads faster and is a direct response to traffic growth which has made the old delicious loads a bit slow, especially with Delicious’ user base expanding into 5 million already.
• Search - The Delicious search engine was completely overhauled and has become faster and more powerful. The search engine now returns search results faster than the old site. It has become even smarter and more social. You can search within tags, public bookmarks or social networks now.

These new features and enhancements maybe a bit late but certainly for those who still use social bookmarking tools such as Delicious will be a welcome development. Delicious has always be a very reliable and one of the pioneering web 2.0 applications. It’s a good thing that Yahoo has not completely forsaken one of its most dependable acquisitions. Delicious is still a widely used online tool, and with the proliferation of web 2.0 applications - the original would always be the best, and delicious.

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