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I am a big fan of delicious and its ability to tag links, which the browsers are only just catching up with. For me this makes it much easier to find things that I bookmark because I think I might have a use for them in the future.
Personally however I feel that the big problem is that delicious has a huge userbase, and outgoings to match, and very little ways to bring money in. When I look at how I use it, I very rarely go to their website even, using buttons in my browser to tag links and access my links. Even when I do go to their site, there is no ads, no premium services, nothing that can bring in money.
When I look at the info in my delicious bookmarks though, you can find out a lot about me and my interests. Surely if delicious had been bought by Google they would have taken advantage of that by at least serving ads that are likely to match my interests when I visit my home page, or specific ads when I click on a tag.
As a user of delicious I have to say that I really wouldn't mind them making a bit of money, as lets face it, if I want to keep these links into the future, they need to be at least recovering their costs.
I will not pull my hair
Maybe i'm retarded, but i've never understood the potential of social web.
Delicious is not different. I have at last 50 bookmarks of sites i visit frequently and the only benefit of delicius is when i'm using someone else PC.
It doesn't help me to rank better on SEs, it doesn't bring traffic either and if I have to find something, instead of digging in my bookmarks on delicious I do a query on SEs. Easier and most of the time I get fresher results.
From my site stats, less then 0,03% of visitors have added one of my pages on delicious. That's can also mean my site sux, but it's a point.
So i will not pull my hair if delicious will not be further developed and honestly it's no wonder this guy doesnt know what to do next.
A very social sceptic Guido.