Turning Social
This makes sense.
Take a useful service and layer social networking into it. Connect the people who are already connected by a service, but only as users of the service.
Can Delicious turn itself into a mashup of LinkedIn, MySpace, with the Delicious tagging engine driving it all. Delicious already has plenty of useful content in its folds. Not much escapes its bookmarking functionality. Videos, mp3’s, websites, files, the list goes on.
And they’ve begun to gel it all together in a way that makes sense. Added plenty of useful tools to redisplay data and other tools to begin allowing members to build networks of peers.
The next step in social networking is not hundreds of copycat sites (the ones that pop up every day) that provide MySpace functionality, but those sites that already have very useful content (netflix, delicious, IMDb, etc) that layer in useful social network tools to better help people connect and learn.
It is nice to see that one of my favorites, delicious, is apparently heading this way.
I look forward to seeing the birth of delicious 2.0.
