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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?

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Post by phlux »

bravura wrote: post #5
coverband wrote: post #3

Why 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

Why would one want 10-days of bookmarks from 1.5 years ago?

Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

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Post by InclinedPlane »

thesethings wrote: post #11

Google has open sourced: Jaiku, Etherpad, Wave among other things, before closing them down. Open sourcing it wouldn't solve the discovery/hosting part, but I still think they should do it. I'm sure it wouldn't be "easy," but it wouldn't be unprecedented. Yahoo! folks also should take a look at dataliberation.org, for best practices on getting on data out (also a Google joint). (Nope, I don't work for Google :D, just…

s/good/responsible/

Sadly corporate responsibility is not the norm, though it should be.

Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

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Post by coderdude »

coverband wrote: post #3

Why 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…

Unless I am mistaken here (as far as copyright goes, if that's what you're talking about) the only data Delicious' users can claim any right to is the short descriptions they are able to add to each bookmark. The mere fact that they liked that page is data that can be freely distributed.

Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

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Post by bobds »

Macha wrote: post #25
bobds wrote: post #14

I want Open Source Federated Delicious. Anyone wanna help make it?

I was actually thinking the same thing. Pity I don't have enough time. Though if someone makes a project I'd have to look into helping a little.

A possibility would be to build this on top of Noserub: http://noserub.com/

Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

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Post by charliepark »

codybrown wrote: post #2

We are also compiling stories about present use cases of Delicious. If you are a user, post them here and I'll update the question.

Delicious was one of the best resources for finding articles on niche interests, for surfacing articles that were especially good, and for finding others interested in the same topics as you.

As for two specific examples: Learning Ruby on Rails has been a long, slow, struggle for me. A number of reasons for that, but one of the main ones being that I don't have many other programmers in my area that I can talk about it with. Although there are scores of blogs and tutorials on Rails, it's hard to know which articles are good, and nobody has the time to read them all. So if I was looking for a post on, say, integrating jQuery with Rails, I could do a quick search at http://www.delicious.com/tag/rails+jquery, and I'd find a bunch of articles that had been selected by individuals, for their own use. It was great for finding high-quality content.

Another example deals with niche interests. Delicious made it easy to suss out who is talking about $randominterest. Just by going to http://delicious.com/tag/randominterest, you can see who else is bookmarking it, who's writing about it, and so on. Especially when dealing with, say, fringe programming languages, or uncommon design details, Delicious makes it easy to find people.

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