I was thrilled to see that delicious has found a new home.  Not only do I continue to actively use delicious nearly every day but having been involved intimately with its brief life as a separate company I have an ongoing emotional attachment.  There are a bunch of things that I would love to see AVOS tackle once they have handled the migration off Yahoo’s infrastructure onto their own. 

• At present I use the bookmarklet, but it would be great to be able to post with an overlay that doesn’t screw up my history (hitting back twice to get back to where I was is a nuisance).  I product managed the original Firefox extension and it solved that problem nicely.

• While one of the great strengths of delicious is discovering people through content, I would still like to be able to bring my existing social graphs from Facebook and Twitter to delicious to find other people.  So far I have not really built a network on delicious and it would be more engaging if I started with more existing connections.

• In the same vein, it would be great to have prettier profiles with pictures of people as a must (see point above) - this will really change the dynamic of being on the page for a URL.

• Suggested people (this was critical for both Facebook and Twitter to build their networks) based not just on whom I know, but also based on content that has been bookmarked.

• As I build my network, it will be critical to see a filtered view of the bookmarks of the people I am following as there will be too many and the see all recent ones will not be illuminating.  Ideally, the default view would be one of “interestingness” which would be some kind of proprietary algorithm that guesses at which of the bookmarks from my network would be most valuable for me to see.

• Browsing “Library of Congress” or “Dewey Decimal” style.  This to me is the holy grail of delicious.  Yes it’s true that I can browse by tag today but that’s not what I am interested in.  Instead I want to browse by proximity as determined by all the signals available to delicious, which includes tags, network, page contents (assuming the service indexes the underlying page) and maybe even social graph data from outside of delicious.  In any case with all of these inputs, when I am on a URL page in delicious I should be able to see “related” URLs right there.

• And somewhat frivolously: a easy way to move my account from awenger to albertwenger (I may just have to export and re-import).

As a small aside, there were some people complaining about the change to the terms of service which suggest that AVOS can suppress certain types of URLs.  Given their experience with Youtube, I can completely understand where Chad and Steve come from on this.  It would seem that there is an elegant solution to this though by not surfacing some URLs publicly (even if the user did not mark them as private).  The URL will still be visible to the user but not discoverable by others.  In any case, I had no problem accepting the new terms.

All of my points above are motivated by my belief that delicious fill a very different role from Twitter.  Twitter is a flow of things that are happening in the world.  Delicious is the stock of the world’s knowledge.  I look forward to seeing what AVOS will do with it.