Delicious new design for leading bookmarking site

We certainly haven’t heard a lot from the del.icio.us labs recently. But that is all to change in the near future as Techcrunch managed to get an exclusive look at the upcoming Delicous 2 site. There are numerous new features including a complete code rewrite. One of the more notable things I noticed is that they are dropping the Del.icio.us branding: they are moving to Delicious.com instead of the Del.icio.us that we’re all used to. Likely to improve usability among some of their more novice users.

There should be a beta of the new design rolled out in the near future for select users to test. Now if only we could nail that supposed launch date down.

Here are some of the new features aside from the upcoming name change and new layout:

* There are four main categories on the Delicioius site: Home, Bookmarks, People and Tags
* New sorting options
* Bulk tag editing…thank goodness!
* Autocomplete on the tag bar
* Organize and sort your friends
* New search engine with contextual search – search your own bookmarks, all bookmarks, or a network of bookmarks

The Delicious 2 preview page is available, but you have to be invited before you can login. I wouldn’t search around too hard for an invite though, because any changes you make on the preview service will be lost once the new design goes live.

So I think the more important question is what do you think about them changing the name? Please share your thoughts..

Here is some screens – Your bookmarks page