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del.icio.us Analysis What is del.icio.us? social bookmarking web service a user can store his links share his links discover new links How does it work? Install del.icio.us buttons into your browser Whenever you find


  1. del.icio.us Analysis

  2. What is del.icio.us? ● social bookmarking web service ● a user can – store his links – share his links – discover new links

  3. How does it work? ● Install del.icio.us buttons into your browser ● Whenever you find yourself on a site you want to bookmark --> click on „tag“ button ● describe site with tags relevant to it's content and click save

  4. How is del.icio.us Web 2.0? ● public web service ● tags ● community, wisdom of the crowds ● share and find information

  5. ● users are main contributors ● software gets better the more people use it ● data as the „Intel Inside“

  6. How did del.icio.us become so popular? ● tag bookmarks instead of storing into folders ● share bookmarks with friends ● find super relevant pages tagged by other users ● measures importance and relevance of site: how many other people have tagged this page?

  7. How did del.icio.us achieve the critical mass of users? ● when building a social network, value for first users is very small ● achievement of critcal mass is crucial ● del.icio.us provided real benefits to it's first users even though network is empty (tagging and organizing your bookmarks) ● once certain amount of tagged websites, very valuable for users who want to find new content

  8. Growing as a platform ● In a market where each customer gets his own version of a product – initial product will copied and improved by competitors – market share is distributed over several players

  9. ● Internet platform is different: – Software gets better the more people use it – The first player will have the most users --> most attractive platform for a new user most likely his friends already on that platform – if you want to challenge main competitor --> substantially better or completely new product

  10. how does this apply to del.icio.us? ● del.icio.us often cited as „perfect example“ of Web 2.0 application ● first to be in social bookmarking ● a lot of early adopters tried the product ● very unlikely to change service

  11. (How) Does del.icio.us make money? ● contextual advertising ● on the side of search results like Google ● highly profitable model

  12. ● but, different kind of users and queries on del.icio.us than on google ● danger: the more relevant your search results are, the less likely users are to click on ads ● many people use del.icio.us to increase relevance of search results

  13. Why has Yahoo bought del.icio.us? ● Why did Yahoo buy del.icio.us when they have their own social bookmarking service called My Web 2.0 ? ● strong brand, independent from yahoo URL and branding ● very active user community ● experience of developers ● huge potential

  14. But del.icio.us makes little money? ● direct traffic and ad revenue not the only factor ● huge amount of data about websites being collected by a huge community

  15. 4 ways to monetize social bookmarking ● contextual ads ● sell or use tag-Stream data – how do people perceive my and competitors websites? – trends

  16. ● advertorial tags – use tags that are related to buying products – business owners pay for good ranking with those tags ● contextual advertising based on user value – not only relevant to query but also relevant to user behavior (what kind of ads does he click on?)i

  17. Competitors ● three types of competitors: ● other social bookmarking services ● directories ● search engines

  18. social bookmarking services ● same market with new functionality and/or paying of users to attract new users ● different geographic market, e.g. Mister Wong for german speaking market ● StumbleUpon – let's user „stumble“ randomly on new pages according to their interests

  19. simpy.com ● same core market as del.icio.us ● Create private or public groups, invite others, collaborate ● sync with del.icio.us ● earn money by having people click on ads on your link page ● use Simpy to find like-minded users ● compared to del.icio.us, unimportant

  20. Directories ● since beginning of the internet, before search ● to little flexibility ● run by a certain organization who has to check every submitted site for correctness/relevancy ● users are not contributing

  21. Going against Google ● Google has very complex algorithms to determine the relevance of a site for your search (Pagerank et al.) ● Sites in del.icio.us are simply tagged by users ● Google gives a lot more results than del.icio.us, but amount of results is often not important

  22. ● user wants the top three results, and they should better be super relevant with great content ● top results from del.icio.us are relevant because tagged with that keyword and important because many people have tagged it (wisdom of the crowds) ● del.icio.us has a big potential in the search field and might see an increase of search queries soon

  23. del.icio.us potential ● SEO not possible with del.icio.us ● Pages shown are relevant not because of SEO but because of users liking the content ● if del.icio.us provides better results than google, expect a shift from google to del.icio.us

  24. ● for online businesses, about 80% of traffic comes from search engines ● when social bookmarking becomes more important for search --> del.icio.us becomes very important for everybody who makes money online

  25. Conclusion ● del.icio.us could dramatically change the way we navigate the web ● is not going to replace search engines entirely, they still can do things del.icio.us can not ● has very active community that tags the whole web --> huge amount of valuable data

  26. ● wisdom of the crowds helps increase relevance of search results ● find better information faster with social search ● increase of importance of social search ● del.icio.us is number 1 for social search huge advantage in market

  27. Thank you for your attention by Flavio Rump

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