As the largest social bookmarking site on the web, the rapid rise and viral spread of Delicious marked the renaissance of social software on the Internet. Like Flickr, Delicious is a tag-based platform — a popular website that helps users share their favorite links. Tags allow people to annotate items by adding words and phrases. In the case of Delicious, the items being tagged are bookmarks. Delicious provides a simple way to share web pages, offering countless Internet users a means to share and categorize their favorite bookmarks.

On April 1, 2012, Delicious announced its official entry into China, launching with the domain mei.fm meiweisq.com — a very Chinese-flavored domain name. The site is currently in public beta. From what we know, the revamped Delicious service remains similar to the original. The new team also plans to improve the design, tagging system, and link management software. Previously, the team had expressed a desire to simplify and mainstream the product’s appearance, making it easier for users to understand. Delicious is dedicated to helping users discover valuable information across the vast Internet. Since its relaunch last year, it has already amassed millions of users.

I (Zhou Liang) have been using the English version of Delicious for quite some time. Let me first introduce what Delicious is:
Delicious helps you save websites you discover or that others recommend. There are three main reasons to use Delicious:

• With Delicious, you can access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re at home, at work, at an Internet cafe, or at school — as long as you have Internet access, you can reach all the links you’ve saved, even without your own laptop.
• Delicious can serve as your personal custom search engine. If you’ve been using Delicious for two months or more, you’ll find that searching your own Delicious bookmarks sometimes yields more accurate results than Google — because what you’ve saved is what interests you, and it’s already been filtered, so the quality is naturally higher.
• Delicious can serve as your personal knowledge management tool. I’ll elaborate on this in the following paragraphs.

Having learned today that Delicious was entering China, I gave the Chinese version a try. The interface looks nice and is largely consistent with the English version’s style. However, the meiweisq.com (Chinese version) account system is separate from delicious.com (English version) — you can’t log in with your delicious.com credentials and must register a new account. Furthermore, I couldn’t find any bookmark import or export functionality in the backend, so there’s currently no way to migrate content from the old delicious.com.