July 5 at 6:08 pm
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so any thoughts here people? - Allen Stern
oddly, I've never been a big Delicious user until I started using FF, so now I use it as a way to share things I find. It has undoubtedly though been damaged by Yahoo, where it has stagnated as others have innovated. The bigger question though: will Flickr share the same fate? - Duncan Riley
absolutely, great observation! - Jeremy Toeman
without question, never had a chance even if FriendFeed never was - Lou Paglia
They aren't the same thing and don't serve the same purpose IMHO. I love the two. - directeur
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friendfeed is for explicit sharing, delicious is for myself, others can lookup if they are interested - Murali
seems like ff adds strong motivation to take action in services where you would not have in the past.. in order to bring the content back here. like every button in other social sites is now a ff share button - Travis Parsons
Murali - I agree, that's how I use ff and del.icio.us. I wonder if that's how most others do too...? - Sonciary Honnoll
Delicious is much more about explicit action. Take for instance their resistance to auto suggesting tags in the beginning. Where FriendFeed is more about capturing the actions you take about the web and consolidating them without any extra ongoing effort on the part of the user. - Caleb Elston
the "social" aspect of delicious is greatly enhanced through the use of friendfeed (or in my case in addition to another site like diggo as well). as is, delicious has a big barrier in trying to make those "connections" between users personal in any way. - Cee Bee
@Travis: That's a good point. I've found myself trying to keep a balance of services, so I use more than I usually would. And the good thing is that everything you do on those services comes back to FF - you share wherever you are. - Cyvros/fyc
Off topic, but picking up from Duncan Riley's comment re Flickr. Just in case Flickr dies a slow death, are there any real alternatives to it? - Paul Rees
Sometimes Delicious is useful - Igor Poltavskiy
friendfeed is very different from del.icio.us, here there are no tags and even if it did I would compare it to stumbleupon. Yet I don't use SU for bookmarking but rather for sharing so they're not in the same league - Dobromir Hadzhiev