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Summer TV must be slow, but I’m finding Wrecked to be strangely addictive.

Today Yahoo! launched version 2.0 of the Delicious bookmarking service:

The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at.

The major changes touted are improved speed, more powerful search, and a brand new UI design. They are also making “delicious.com” the primary domain (switching from the original “del.icio.us”). So far I find the UI changes pretty decent and the speed does seem better. As with many UI overhauls, there’s a bit of the “who moved my cheese?” aspect to it as I discover where everything moved. I suspect this will be a common reaction.

Speaking of reactions, see Techmeme for a bunch of links. Most of the stories are what you would expect, along the lines of “Yahoo! finally launches Delicious 2.0…”. My view is that with this release finally out of the way, the Delicious team will be able to tackle other important changes such as Yahoo! Search integration and improvements to the API. I don’t have any internal insight into the Delicious team, but I know this 2.0 project has been a huge effort that ran longer than anyone expected. If they’ve designed it right for the next level of scalability, the team should be back on feature changes and improvements.

From Nate’s blog, I discovered an excellent photographic news blog on Boston.com: The Big Picture:

The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.

Online news sites seem to be shrinking their images (Yahoo! News had larger images at one point - not sure what became of them), or putting more focus on video. It’s great to find a site that explores in high-resolution the most interesting and newsworthy photos.

Here’s one sample, taken from a series on the California wildfires:

If you’re looking for a better Yahoo! ID, or you like to collect “yourname@” on all the different web services, Yahoo! is opening up two new domains today: ymail.com and rocketmail.com.

Go to the new mail addresses page to get started. Read the official release on Yodel Anecdotal.