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It's really unfortunate that they won't even try the freemium, or (shock!) even the outright pay to play approach. I'm sure with two million users there would have been enough paying customers to create a profitable business.

They might struggle to get people to sign up when there is doubt about the service surviving. But that cat is already out of the bag, and as I alluded to earlier they could also play this to their advantage (charging now is not a money-grab, it's simply a matter of keeping a valuable service viable).

DHH needs to give them some scream therapy about business models. The one he does about asking your customers to pay for your service.

Any other examples of this?

Not a bad hypothesis, one I see regularly but 90 days to close sure illustrates the downside and value of searching for that monetization model earlier rather than later.

I no longer believe startups who claim their value proposition is "the data will be really valuable someday."

I found googling worked better than maintaining personal bookmarks, so Google has become my "bookmark" service.

This was always an issue for adoption in delicious, anyway.

That's how the theory goes, anyway.

Cross-link that with people I follow on Twitter and it might get interesting, though...

I don't use the social features at all and I am really curious what direction Delicious will take under new management.

Example: I write software for, and have a strong interest in, professional photographers and I keep bookmarks of my favorite photographers for inspiration. Many of them were found via delicious.

To me, Delicious is more valuable than Facebook and Twitter. Social bookmarking lets us to extract information from the chaos.

I still think there is a largely unmet need that fits into the "Social Bookmarking" niche. But I don't think "Social" is the best way to think about it.

As an avid user (of Faves.com, in my case) - I use it for (in order of importance):

    1. Pack Rat - I don't ever want to loose a link I        found interesting enough to want to recall later.     2. Personal Search - I need a great search interface        to quickly find anything I've saved (search across        tags, and comment text). 

I think I want a well integrated system that spans:

    - Personal Bookmarking     - Personal Knowledge Base w/ Search     - Topic Forums     - Commenting system     - Micro-blogging/publishing

This is only the first step, though. In the next month or so, the site plans to roll out a feature to both its website and the iPhone application that will use this attention data to enhance the “Discover page” (the section of the app that presents you with recent stories), so that you don’t have to wait til the end of the week to get smarter recommendations.

YourVersion still has a lot of work to do — in its current form, there isn’t much to differentiate it from the countless feed readers and news apps already out there.  The app needs to implement more robust algorithms that can provide story recommendations that are both more timely and accurate than its competitors’.