{"id":743004,"date":"2013-03-21T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=226369"},"modified":"2013-03-21T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:58:48","slug":"d-me-is-this-the-new-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743004","title":{"rendered":"D.me: Is this the new Delicious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like the folks over at Delicious may have a case of Digg envy: I stumbled across a seemingly new site called D.me<\/a> today that serves up a continuous stream of stories in a design that looks a lot like the recently-relaunched Digg.com<\/a>, with a bit of Pinterest mixed in for good measure.<\/p>

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The site offers users to access content sorted by media types (articles, products, videos, music and photos) as well as through a free-form search. All of this can be combined, enabling you filter results to just photos and videos related to a certain subject. There even seems to be an element of personalization, offering users to display \u201cmore links like this.\u201d<\/p>

However, currently, only articles and a very small number of videos are on display, and search doesn\u2019t seem to work at all.<\/p>

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There\u2019s no about section on the site, and nothing that directly connects it to Delicious. However, the AVOS team, which acquired Delicious two years ago<\/a>, also bought the D.me domain, and in fact briefly used it as a kind of link shortener and email forwarder<\/a> for Delicious. And a look under the hood reveals that D.me is in fact powered by the Delicious API.<\/p>

At this point, it\u2019s very unclear what the future holds for D.me. An email inquiry to the AVOS team went unanswered. It\u2019s possible that D.me was just a test for the AVOS platform, which the company describes on its website<\/a> as a \u201ccommon technology stack we\u2019re building to underpin shared features across the AVOS product portfolio.\u201d<\/p>

However, there\u2019s also a chance that AVOS learned a lesson from its botched attempt to reinvent Delicious after it acquired the site. A number of features, including the idea of curated collections of links dubbed \u201cstacks,\u201d were eventually rolled back.<\/a><\/p>

Maybe AVOS decided to leave Delicious alone, and experiment with more innovative ideas for content discovery on a separate site.<\/p>
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