Orchard Plants Himself At Del.icio.us

Les Orchard, author of "Hacking del.icio.us," has been in the process of making his way to Silicon Valley, where he will work for the Yahoo-owned Delicious bookmarking service. Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny newlywed Orchard gave up living in Eminem's backyard for the chance to dwell in Silicon Valley. Orchard authored the recently released "Dealing with a cross-country move and new employee orientation, my head's still spinning faster than my hard drive platters. But, very shortly, I'll be pitching in to help enhance and expand del.icio.us. I'm hoping to make use of lessons I picked up in writing my last book, as well as any other tricks I've stuffed into my head over the years. I'm not allowed to talk about all the ultra-awesome stuff on the horizon, but I can say that I'm geeked to be here! A new developer isn't the only additions Delicious has made recently. Earlier this month, the bookmarking service Firefox users have had for Delicious. This places the delicious buttons to view and add bookmarks to one's account to IE. People who share bookmarks with other Delicious users by tagging them as for:username have an extra piece of functionality available. Delicious now shows the number of new links tagged that way at the top of the Delicious user's page, in "links for you." Lastly, widgets. This support will make it easier for those bloggers to add tagrolls and linkrolls to an existing blog, without editing a template. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.