The new and improved version of Delicious, one of the oldest (and my fave) social bookmarking services, is out. It has been well talked about all over the web so it’s not necessary for me to go into mind numbing detail (do a search on “delicious 2.0″) but I will provide an overview, as is my role (as meta-filter extraordinaire?)
In a nutshell there are three things that strike me about the Delicious update:

1. Yahoo! (they own Delicious) coughed up cash and changed the URL to delicious.com from del.icio.us (opinions are divided on this)
2. The UI (user interface) has had a makeover; and
3. You can now have 1000 characters in the “notes” field

They are probably in reverse order of interest for me. More characters in the notes field is absolutely awesome (and the updated Firefox plugin now reflects the change. Peeps, seriously update now if you haven’t already). I usually select a paragraph of “about” text on the page I’m bookmarking and rarely is it neatly less than the old 128 minimum. Oh the freedom!

The user interface looks pretty tight and modern but it has thrown me somewhat. I have had to refamiliarise myself as a few things are done slightly differently. Most notable for me was adding to your network. The “add user to network” link is a small button in the top right visible when you’re in the network “tab”. It seems different anyway. Maybe it’s just because the text is now like font size 10 and I can’t read it (who keeps moving my medicine?)

Domain change? Who really cares. I don’t actually visit the site itself much and when I do it is usually from the Firefox plugin button. Heck, most browsers auto-resolve to point you to where you need to go anyway.

If you’re not part of an online social bookmarking service you’re not in it. You have to get a taste. Sign up, get Firefox (portable if you wish [Windows or OSX]), get the buttons and get tagging!
I wonder how long it will take for the Atomic Learning tutes to be updated?