What I liked about it: The fact that It can be accessed from webapp / browser plugin / mobile app, which means it will be storing all my messages in the cloud, and claims to be the most secure of them all.
Alright then, I use Facebook Messenger a lot, it can be accessed from the web, I can use it on my phone and other devices, and I don't need to add contacts as my friends are already using it. Bam!
It is Possible. But if there is a startup working on it / a service already there, and is getting some traction, Google probably knows about it. Again, Google can make/introduce new features to keep the users coming back to it or it can simply acquire the service ( For example, Twitch ).
I agree. For most of the apps out there, I use Google+ to login, even if there are other services available.
Why :
* Using Android, Google+ seems safer, faster, and easier to remember ( that I logged in using Google )
* I don't have to worry about Permissions that much ( Facebook - post to news feed, send notifications )
* I can use Multiple Google accounts for logging in ( and switch anytime )
* Again, it's Google.
Do people still use *Social bookmarking? Well, for most of the people using the web, Facebook is the common source of news / links / any hot discussion going on anywhere on the internet. Twitter too, but I have read somewhere that generally, Facebook is the only source nowadays.
I use pinboard for private bookmarking. In fact that's one of the improvements of pinboard over delicious. At the time I used delicious I always felt that I had to work to keep my bookmarks private. I set my privacy setting once at pinboard and I never have to think about it.
For me, pinboard is bookmarks that I don't have to synch, and have automatically available at home, work or wherever.
I certainly see Delicious and HN as being in the same landscape, but different. Delicious has the concept of friends, so there is a social network aspect to it. HN has comments, so there is a forum aspect to it.
I don't have many friends on Delicious, and no friends with really similar interests, so the social network aspect is not worth much to me. HN has lots of reasonably bright and knowledgeable users, so the comments are worth something to me. It's the classic private vs public dichotomy in social networks.
If Delicious could somehow mix in some of the forum aspect that HN has, it could become enormously valuable to me. If it let me read and participate in discussions like HN, but focused on the areas i am specifically interested in (more Rust, less Bitcoin), it would replace HN in an instant.
Very crappy social bookmarking maybe. Without tags it's really tough to go back and find anything especially cause 99%+ of the posts are not of interest to me. With delicio.us I just put a bunch of tags on everything I bookmark and then it's super easy to go back and find later.
I had the same question. One of my friend wanted a custom domain email solution, I found ZOHO, but the services it provides has limitations. Had to fallback on email service provided by the hosting service.
The web looks weird with all the advertisements when I'm not on my own machine.