Delicious

Delicious appears in Steve Huffman on Reddit’s Origin Story, Sale, and Return as a social bookmarking site whose Popular page influenced Reddit. Steve Huffman says Delicious Popular surfaced links from user behavior, but the material could be tedious because people bookmarked pages they wanted to return to later rather than links they wanted to discuss.

The source uses Delicious as half of Reddit’s product formula: a dynamic, user-powered list from Delicious Popular combined with the comment-community energy of Slashdot.

Connections

• Reddit, Steve Huffman, and Paul Graham - product-origin context.
• Slashdot - complementary influence in Huffman’s account.
• User-Powered Content Platform and Founder Idea Pivot - concepts grounded in the Delicious Popular prompt.