“Login with a single click and immediately start adding links,” Delicious says in a blog post. “But that’s not the only benefit of connecting your social accounts. We can also automatically pull in links you’ve shared (or favorited on Twitter), meaning you’ll never have to dig through your feed to find a link again – they will all be waiting for you on your Delicious account, indexed and searchable. We’ve also introduced the Friend Finder to help you find and follow the people you know.”

They’ve also started putting the user who first saved a link back in the link details pane. This was a big community request, Delicious says. It’s now prominently displayed on every link added to the site.

Other new stuff includes a bug fix where public tags were showing up in autocomplete when tagging, the addition of the “Add to Delicious” button on the Tools page, faster load times, and an optimized (for speed) bookmarklet.

Delicious says to expect more improvements soon.

The new ‘new’ delicious launched in November with another redesign. Shortly thereafter came the iPhone app.

A little over a month ago, the site got a new design (again). It’s still in demo mode, but it is the basis for the new app, so perhaps they can get some users used to it on the app before changing it up for all site users.

“The visual style and user experience of the app mirrors that of the new Delicious site design currently being previewed at demo.delicious.com,” the company says. “Not only can users search and add links from their own collections with the app, but they can also search through links being saved by the community and their networks in real-time.”

“We want Delicious to be fast. Really fast!” Delicious said of the site redesign. “To that end, we rewrote the codebase and streamlined the user interface. Content now renders instantly and can be consumed in a single pageview – making it even easier to navigate the site.”

The app is free, of course, and the company says Android and tablets are “on the roadmap”. In a previous post, Delicious said they wanted Delicious to be consumed across a “multitude of devices”.

I’m just glad they don’t have all those dots in their name anymore.

You can check out the new site at demo.delicious.com. At least it doesn’t look like Pinterest. Here’s what it does look like:

“The Delicious community is a passionate bunch – consuming millions of links every day while collecting the best content on the net,” the Delicious team says in a blog post. “In the future, we’ll make it easier for users to not only save their own links, but to discover the most interesting bits and bytes on the web by leveraging the crowd-sourced wisdom of our community.”

“We want Delicious to be fast. Really fast!” the team adds. “To that end, we rewrote the codebase and streamlined the user interface. Content now renders instantly and can be consumed in a single pageview – making it even easier to navigate the site.”

There’s an iOS app in development, which will let users access their links. Without mentioning an actual Android app, the company says it has “a roadmap in place to improve the way Delicious is consumed across a multitude of devices,” and notes that it has Android loyalists covered.

Delicious is also careful to point out that the demo does not have all the key features of the current Delicious.

The move announced today on the Delicious blog will give users the option of connecting their Delicious and Twitter accounts together. This will allow users to save any links they tweet, retweet or favorite on Twitter to be added to their Delicious profile.

The features are described as such:

Every link you’ve shared via Twitter in the past (up to the last 3,200) will be imported into your Delicious account. (Delicious will ignore any duplicates)

You can choose a link-saving protocol for future tweets, including a) saving each link from Twitter going forward; b) saving just the links in tweets hashtagged with #d; c) saving every link except those hashtagged with #d.

You get to assign your own Delicious tag to every link coming from Twitter, and any hashtag included in your tweets (aside from #d) will be converted to unique tags on Delicious.

Multiple Twitter accounts can be set up, each with their own discreet settings and preferences.

Trunk.ly offered this functionality, but as we reported last year, they were acquired by Delicious. It would seem the acquisition led to this new Twitter partnership.

The features don’t just stop there though. The Delicious team will be adding a whole new slew of social networks to their integration list. This will “further streamline link-saving and sharing with your friends.”

The new Twitter features aren’t out just yet, but it is rolling out to all users over the next week. You can check if you have the new feature by going to your account settings page. If you see a tab that wasn’t there before, called “Sources,” then you have the new functionality.

But then in September when the site relaunched with its “stacks” concept, the applause died down. Hard core users were not happy with the direction the site was taking.

In November, Avos announced that it had acquired Trunk.ly to enhance link saving with Delicious. It collects all the links that users share or like on sites like Twiter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and stores them in a single place.

In a nutshell, that walks us through the relaunch of Delicious.

Now, the company has posted a message on the Delicious blog talking about browser extensions. It says:

In the past one of the ways of working with Delicious has been the browser extensions. For users of those extensions, it’s been frustrating that some of the features are not working. There’s also inconsistency between the features in different browser extensions. We want to clarify our position on the extensions and where we are going from here.

The challenge this creates is that our focus is on innovating and moving Delicious forward. We are re-building it into a site that once more attracts millions of people to enjoy the best content the web has to offer. How the Delicious site works and operates is changing. It will continue to grow and change more quickly and this is where we are directing our efforts.

The company goes on to say that it’s putting the extensions “on ice,” and that it will not develop for them in the near future, as they’re focused on the bookmarklet as the primary way to interact with the site, beyond the site itself, which it says it is also focused on.

If you’re already using extensions, and you’re ok with the way they’re already working, you can continue to use them. Just don’t expect any changes to them soon. It sounds like this could change in time though.

Avos (the company from YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen), which acquired Delicious from Yahoo earlier this year, announced today that it has acquired Trunk.ly to “enhance link-saving” with the site.

Trunk.ly itself was founded about a year ago by Tim Bull and Alex Dong, based on the concept of “making the bookmarking process more automated and supported by intuitive search.”

It collects all the links that users share or like on sites like Twiter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and stores them in a single place.

“It became clear from the first discussion with Trunk.ly’s founders that our visions for the future of bookmarking and discovery were closely aligned,” said Hurley, the CEO of AVOS. “Their technology and insights will accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious.”

“We’re excited to join this stellar team and apply our bookmarking innovations to help Delicious users discover and collect the web,” said Bull.

Trunk.ly will be discontinued as a standalone service, and as part of the Delicious team, they’re immediately starting on integrating the technology into Delicious. The site will continue to operate for two months so users can move their links elsewhere. They’re providing an export tool.

It will be interesting to see if there is more positive reaction to Delicious as it integrates Trunk.ly.

I’ve started a new “stack” for resources related to Google’s Panda Update, which webmasters can use to stay informed about it, and hopefully get some useful knowledge to help them survive future updates or help them get back in Google’s good graces if they’ve already fallen victim.

I wouldn’t say that the list is complete, so I’d like to encourage you to share other resources in the comments section. We’ll evaluate whether or not to include them from there. Hopefully we can make this a really useful resource.

Bookmark the stack, because there are links in it that will be updated continuously as more info comes out. Click the image below to go to the stack, and feel free to share it on StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. so more can see it and help add to it.

The revamp caught my attention, because I like what they’re doing with “stacks”. These are essentially collections of bookmarks based on a specific topic, displayed in an interesting way. I see a lot of potential for information discovery in this concept, and I think the guys who created the world’s biggest video site might be onto something again. I don’t know that it’s going to be YouTube big, but so far, I think it’s going to be worth using.

The stacks concept is explained simply in this video:

They still have some work to do, however. There needs to be better browser extension tools and mobile apps, though the mobile site isn’t terrible.

I’m viewing the site from the perspective of a new user, as if it’s an entirely new product, but of course this really isn’t the case. Delicious has been around for years, and regardless of Yahoo’s disinterest in it, it does have a solid community, and many of them aren’t thrilled about the new changes.

While at its core, the new Delicious serves basically the same purpose as the old Delicious – social bookmarking – it is now being executed in a pretty different way.

John Blump, a WPN reader, commented:

- the main page is full with images?! information = 0
- i saved links which do NOT appear anywhere (and other which do) ?!
- when i want to save through my firefox add-on, every time i’m asked to login !
- when i do save a link, i cannot use MY TAGS any more ?!
- now i’ve got only 10 links per page ! the designer did not understand the aim is to get the most links per page NOT the least !

ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick calls the new Delicious a “bitter disappointment.” But again, he also talks about how his site has used the service a lot.

Suman, commenting on a GigaOm post about the redesign, wrote:

I had a fairly bad experience with the new Delicious today. Just last week I had spent a few hours curating my saved bookmarks and organizing tags. The new Delicious doesn’t seem to know anything about it. All my effort is lost. There is no longer a bulk-edit function to redo my changes. I can no longer manage my tags – could find no option for deleting old tags. Some of my tags with special characters are now broken, I get a 404 when I try to access them. I am done. Goodbye Delicious.

A few more comments from Twitter:

It does seem pretty clear that the transition process didn’t go very smoothly, and that’s clearly irritated quite a few people. The comments in this article are just a small sampling of what’s out there. That doesn’t mean that people won’t like the new Delicious. Whether or not it can capture mainstream appeal reamins to be seen, and again, I think mobile apps could help with that. After using it for a day, I don’t think it’s perfect, but I expect they’ll continue to make improvements. I do think it has the foundation of something that could grow into a really interesting place to find content shared by yourself and others.

What do you think of the new Delicious? Were you using the old version? Let us know in the comments.

And here’s what it looks like:

The new delicious utilizes a new feature called “stacks,” which the company calls “playlists for the web”. The following video explains how these works with the example of “why mustaches are so awesome”. You find various related links around the web and find a nice collection to create a stack. It’s pretty simple really.

To be honest, I’ve never been much of a Delicious user, but I’m kind of digging what they’ve done with it, at least at first glance. This looks more like something I would use than the previous version, which ultimately led to a sale after its expected demise. If enough people feel this way, we may see a resurgence for this social bookmarking site.

“After acquiring the service from Yahoo! in April, we realized that in order to keep innovating over the long term, the eight-year-old site needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. The result is a new homepage, interface and back-end architecture designed to make Delicious easier to use,” the team says in a blog post.

“Every day, people create boatloads of content on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and across the entire web,” the team says. “It’s getting increasingly difficult to cut through all the noise. If you know exactly what you’re looking for, search works great, but what if you want to discover something new? Conversely, how can you easily organize the best websites around a topic you know a lot about?”

Stacks are the company’s answer to this question, and Delicious will be competing with services like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg and the like, just as it has always done, but the new feature provides Delicious with a new weapon. It will be interesting to see how users respond.

Yahoo said at the time, “While we love Delicious (and our users love Delicious), we wanted to find a home for the product where it can receive more love and attention. We think Avos is that place.”

It looks like that may indeed be the case, as Avos is giving Delicious a refresh. This is supposed happen “later this year,” according to the New York Times, which reports that Chen and Hurley say it will resemble the original Delicious, but with a new design using new software and new systems for tagging and organizing links. Jenna Wortham reports:

The home page would feature browseable “stacks,” or collections of related images, videos and links shared around topical events. The site would also make personalized recommendations for users, based on their sharing habits. “We want to simplify things visually, mainstream the product and make it easier for people to understand what they’re doing,” Mr. Hurley said.

Chen and Hurley reportedly want to solve the information discovery/overload problem that many others are trying to solve, but they may be headed for a similar path that others are also traveling. These solutions often tend to just become one more thing to look at, rather than a filter for noise.

The hard part is getting users to add one more thing to their daily routine. They’re going to have their work cut out for them in that regard, but it should help that Delicious is already an established, brand, which the two acknowledged in the NYT interview.

We’ll be on the lookout for what they come up with, but I’m starting to wonder if the information discovery/overload problem can really be solved. I think it’s more something just to deal with, and we all have our routines.