Emily Chang – Designer

Had some time to cruise through del.icio.us tonight and noticed that one of the Asian bookmarks under /tag/web2.0 had an image associated with it. Since I’ve been using del.icio.us, I’ve never seen this and was curious if anyone else noticed it.

Archived comments

1. Simon Farine on May 18, 2006 at 03:51 AM:
   The explaination is here:
   http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/05/post.html
2. Reid Beels on May 18, 2006 at 04:03 AM:
   I noticed this too and it’s pretty neat. A quick gander at the del.icio.us blog (http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/05/post.html) tells me that they automatically show up for bookmarked pages on flickr. I guess the shared Y! umbrella over the two services is starting to show some fun results.
3. ignazio on May 18, 2006 at 04:35 AM:
   http://del.icio.us/ignazio/cat

   Yeah, but how can be that thumbnail posted on my site/blog as I do with my del.icio.us bookmarks?

4. Biwook on May 18, 2006 at 04:43 AM:
   Mmmh, this is pretty weird… What if you try to edit it ?

   Maybe an incoming feature that somehow got hacked ?

5. Caili on May 18, 2006 at 05:21 AM:
   seems like kind of security issue.
6. Biwook on May 18, 2006 at 05:28 AM:
   Ah, i got the answer… Try to bookmark an image in flickr. You’ll have the same :p

   It makes sense, del.icio.us and flickr are both yahoo.

7. timb on May 18, 2006 at 07:10 AM:
   The image thumbnails are added to bookmarked Flickr pages. (We’re working on adding images for other things too)
8. ryan king on May 18, 2006 at 07:16 AM:
   They’ve been doing this for awhile, but only for Flickr photos.
9. James Yu on May 18, 2006 at 08:29 AM:
   Yep, the del.icio.us blog had a post about this a few weeks ago. They’re basically pulling in images if it’s hosted on flickr. It’s a nice addition. I think del.icio.us would also be much better if they could pull in a variety of file types, like image previews for pdfs, word files, movies, etc.
10. Uri Baruchin on May 18, 2006 at 08:49 AM:
    It’s a new feature reported in their blog – flickr links get thumbnails.
11. Emily on May 18, 2006 at 03:31 PM:
    Ah, thanks. I didn’t see that in their blog. I’ll be curious to see who starts putting screenshots of apps into Flickr them so the thumbnails appear next to their bookmark :)

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