Delicious Mobile? Still a Pipe Dream
Yahoo's popular social bookmarking tool Delicious announced tonight that there is a new mobile version of the site. We were excited to see what that included, but ultimately disappointing that the company had failed to solve the fundamental problem of mobile social bookmarking: that you can't bookmark anything with it.
The new delicious mobile site has a simple interface for seeing your bookmarks and the most popular bookmarks system wide for the day, but it's otherwise extremely limited in functionality.
We know that there's not a simple solution for mobile social bookmark submission (other, perhaps, than a particular shiny phone available only from ATT) but we're still disappointed.
Browsing with no way to bookmark is like nearly wasted time online, and nowhere is that as true as in a mobile browser. Perhaps Yahoo! should team up with Opera Mini to offer bookmark submission in the browser.
With the new mobile delicious you can see recent bookmarks with a certain tag, but not popular ones. You cannot see who bookmarked a URL, their history, etc. You can put together multiple tags, which is nice, so you can find cooking blogs at m.delicous.com/tag/cooking+blog.
For now we'll stick with our existing solution, pulling the RSS feed of our items marked "to read" into Mobile Netvibes.
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What I'd love to see is a mobile mashup of Delicious/Disqus/Instapaper -- something for bookmarking, commenting, and reading later. Heck, I'd settle for a regular version of that. I'm surprised more mobile sites don't offer simple solutions to bookmarking on a phone. In this economy, every bookmark improves the article's chances (as well as those of attending ads) of being seen.
For me the mobile experience is nowhere near where it has to be that I will browse and bookmark. I use an iPhone and I love gmail, apps like facebook, etc, but I never use the browser, it sucks.
Delicious bookmarklet works fine on the iPhone. I use it all the time.
We're just getting started in the mobile space; today's launch is by no means the end of the story. The ability to save is clearly important, but you're right that there are some technology limitations at play here for many mobile devices. We have some ideas of how to address this, so stay tuned.
Regardless, we feel there is still a lot of value in being able to access your online memory whether you're sitting at a computer or walking down the street...
--Stephen Hood, Delicious
I created a delicious webapp for iPhone months ago (viewport = 320px). I tried to get in contact with the Delicious team, but they didn't respond. Nor to my email, delicious inbox message (yup, delicious can be used for messaging :d) or twitter post.
Anyway: on http://delicious.allabout.be I have made a Delicious of iPhone that has most capabilities the regular site offers. Even your inbox can be checked, bookmarking using the bookmarks tab and the top 25 (up to 100) most recent popular posts. Even your network posts and browsing by network member is possible... I think it is worth the look... and it definitely looks better than the delicious version :-).
perhaps try us at http://m.mippin.com in a mobile browser- probably one of the largest amounts of content ever amassed under one roof, and some very nifty social mobile 2.0 tools providing what we call Social Content Discovery.
Let us know your thoughts
I think the mobile version is great. I don't bookmark a lot on my mobile (E71) anyway. Accessing the bookmarks ist totally fine for me.
Well done, Delicious!
I've been posting articles from my windows mobile pocket ie for months now. I use it to mark stuff to review that I find on mobile digg or mini-techmeme.
I'm able to, due to the work done by Dale Lane.
You can get his pocket ie plugins here.
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=253