Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
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Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
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Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#2We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#3Why bother with the code? The value is with the existing links database, and since it belongs to the users, Yahoo shouldn't have the right to sell or distribute it freely.
Since users can already import/export their bookmarks, the only support Yahoo needs to provide is keeping the import API open for a little longer after the site is shut down. Of course this assumes that users would want to migrate their data to a replacement service.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#4We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
I've been using it to find interesting links.
The difference between Delicious and news aggregators like Reddit / Digg / HN is that the rating of links is a side-effect, not a conscious action.
As a result ranking on Delicious does not prefer yellow journalism, obscure interests or vanity displays; much like Google's ranking but small enough to not be a target for promotion through SEO.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#5Why bother with the code? The value is with the existing links database, and since it belongs to the users, Yahoo shouldn't have the right to sell or distribute it freely. Since users can already import/export their bookmarks, the only support Yahoo needs to provide is keeping the import API open for a little longer after the site is shut down. Of course this assumes that users would want to migrate their data to a r…
Of course this assumes that users would want to migrate their data to a replacement service.
Or, for that matter, that users would share their tags with researchers who build on social tagging data:
http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo/browse_thread/thr...
Here is a (scraped?) delicious data set, for those who are interested: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/116137.html
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#6Yep, open sourcing wouldn't help anyone. By the way, I think it's written in PHP and Symfony framework.
This service just needs to stay alive.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#7joshu on Twitter: http://twitter.com/joshu/status/15492062459731968
"@cdixon open sourcing it would be an enormous pain in the ass. selling it not as bad but yahoo infrastructure and auth problematic."
Besides that, open sourcing delicious wouldn't solve the problem - someone still has to host it, and maintain it, and import several million people's bookmark collections in to it. That takes significant time and money. Having the code is just a small part of it.
A smarter thing to do would be to campaign for the (public) data to be released as a huge data dump, ready for people to run their own analysis on (an Amazon Public Data Set for example). This too has plenty of problems though - under what terms should that data be licensed? People's bookmarks belong to them - would they be happy with their contributions being released as part of a massive data set for anyone (including sploggers) to do anything they liked with it?
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#8We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
I never really cared about the social features. For me Delicious (and now Pinboard) is like a personal knowledge base, supporting my unreliable memory. For example when I want to check my favourite Vim plugins I search for tags vim+plugins+favs.
I have more than 2k entries there collected over the course of the last five years. I only bookmark sites that are for some reason important to me, and have some lasting value (eg. I don't bookmark most HN submissions). I tag everything I save and some of my tags have special semantics that is probably only useful to me.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#9We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
I never really cared about the social features. For me Delicious (and now Pinboard) is like a personal knowledge base, supporting my unreliable memory. For example when I want to check my favourite Vim plugins I search for tags vim+plugins+favs. I have more than 2k entries there collected over the course of the last five years. I only bookmark sites that are for some reason important to me, and have some lasting valu…
Updated the question. Thanks.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#10We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.
I've been using it to find interesting links. The difference between Delicious and news aggregators like Reddit / Digg / HN is that the rating of links is a side-effect, not a conscious action. As a result ranking on Delicious does not prefer yellow journalism, obscure interests or vanity displays; much like Google's ranking but small enough to not be a target for promotion through SEO.
Updated the question. Thanks.