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Brendan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:19:06 +0000

Well, they sort of did, and they sort of didn’t: see http://brendancooper.com/2011/09/27/new-delicious-sweet-eye-candy-but-a-bitter-aftertaste/ for the reactions to the redevelopment. But, I have to admit, things have improved since. Go and take a look and let me know what you think of it now!

Comment on New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste by Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:17:20 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Yes, you’re right – the changes weren’t entirely well received!

However, I do think we were a bit hasty to criticise. On the whole they’ve managed to get a lot of the missing stuff back.

One trick they really are missing is to list the total saves at the top of a search, rather than the total number of results. ‘Results’ is just the number of pages that have been bookmarked. ‘Saves’ is the number of times those pages have been bookmarked, which is the real measure of how engaged your audiences are.

So, some of my pages (http://delicious.com/search?p=brendancooper) have been bookmarked 20+ times. So that’s over 20 saves for one page. And I’m sure there are examples out there that have been saved hundreds of times.

So the total number of results is only part of the story. The total number of saves is really, really important – and Delicious don’t list it. I asked about this on their Facebook page and got one response asking me to clarify what I meant, so I did, and that was the end of it.

I’m wondering whether it’s just a tough task for their servers. Results is just a straight count of the number of hits, whereas Saves would require accumulating the saves, page by page, across all pages.

Comment on New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste by Andrew Jung

Andrew Jung — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:11:54 +0000

Stacks are completely useless.
The fact that tags are now “optional” means that delicious will slowly lose its search-ability and find-ability. Do I really want to look through hundreds of stacks rather than just one scrolling page of links based on my search of a tag?

I don’t think so…

And the fact that they dropped the forums for open feedback just underscores the fact that they really don’t care to have criticism about their direction.

Don’t get me started about the lost of my tag bundles either or the ability to be able to copy a set of tags from one saved link to another similar one.

Until just recently I used http://delicious.com/post to save my links which still used the old page saving method, but that is now gone and replaced by the retarded stack focused one.

Argh!

Comment on YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious by Harley Mason

Harley Mason — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:41:44 +0000

Hope they make some good changes with delicious =)

Comment on Tracking the KPIs of Social Media | SEOmoz by Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:52:34 +0000

Ah, but I actually posted it before yesterday, innit?

Comment on Tracking the KPIs of Social Media | SEOmoz by Jamie-woo

Jamie-woo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:28:57 +0000

Ah, if only you had posted this yesterday, I could have used it in my presentation today to sound right clever, innit?

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Comment on Word count compression tricks – and a challenge by Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:24:17 +0000

Ah, I would take up the challenge but I’m afraid I no longer specialise in copywriting (although I am still, by nature, a writer).

When you say 700 words over however, out of how many is that? Because if you’re 700 words over, and the piece is supposed to be 1,000 words long, then that’s a problem. But if you’re 700 words over and it’s a 10,000 word dissertation then that shouldn’t be too difficult.

Given that 700 words is generally going to be quite a lot, my recommendation would be to look for entire sentences that can go. If that doesn’t do it, look for entire paragraphs. Believe me, there will be sentences and paragraphs that, with a critical eye, you’ll see reallly can just be chucked out wholesale.

Good luck with it!