Navy blue is the new salmon - at least for delicious.
Last week Bernard Kerr and Joshua Schachter of Yahoo! del.icio.us gave a presentation (video to be posted
here) about 'Making delicious tastier' or a preview of a 'more web 2.0' version of del.icio.us. Once again as a color guy I latched on to the color changes first - the salmon highlight color for the 'saved by' field is on its way out and a blue highlight will be it's replacement.
But that's not all - they noted lots of other high-level changes that will be rolled out (animation cues, typography changes, new navigation icons and more). They did emphasize though that the goal was to make delicious (the periods are also on their way out) easier to use and more intuitive all without antoginizing the current 4 million or so userbase. Ambitious.
I must admit I found the Q&A at the end to be just as interesting as the presentations. Joshua noted that the lack of a central namespace was more a result of laziness and not philosophy. He certainly did not rail against controlled vocabularies but probably is a case in point of not letting a lack of controlled vocabularies keeping tools like delicious from being useful. Joshua also noted that in some cases that there is an interesting affinity between tag and task affinity. He also pointed out that delicious is perhaps currently biased to foraging as opposed to structured research tasks.
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