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I read not too long ago that I could request an invite to the preview of the new Del.icio.us site.

So, I promptly did so. I just noticed this morning that the invite came in.

I love the new interface. It can’t be rolled out soon enough. It looks great, and I’m one of those people who believes that how a page/application looks does matter. No, it doesn’t need to be flashy, and looks don’t trump functionality, but it still matters (Ma.gnolia has arguably looked better than del.icio.us for years, but I still preferred del.icio.us, because despite not being exquisitely designed, the UI was still great. If the UI had sucked, that would be a different story).

A taste:

Some things:

• The Look and Feel. This stands out first. I love it; it looks like del.icio.us, but cleaner. It seems to present more information, but it doesn’t look cluttered, confusing, or busy. There are several shades of blue and gray, which adds some nice variety and gives a very good feeling overall. Win.
• The “tag” field; notice in the screen snip above, the “Type a tag” field right next to my username (just above the list of bookmarks.) Type a tag, press return, and voila; the list is filtered for that tag. A very cool addition, as soon as you do this, the line changes to look something like a bread crumb trail, to “username > tag > “Type another tag”. You can filter out tags, as many as you like, and each of them has a little “x” next to the tag, so you could search filter for 4 tags and then decide to cut out just one of them… or two… in any order. /me likes; win.

Can we all agree that the new interface is awesome? Perhaps not, since you may not have used it. I will prematurely begin to agree with this sentiment and wait for you all to catch up. No worries: I’ll be here.