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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 encoderer »

coderdude wrote: post #26
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.

Nah, the tags themselves is what he was getting at. Not saying I agree or disagree with him, but that's the value.

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

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Post by simonw »

phlux wrote: post #21
bravura wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Because they wanted to research how people's bookmarking activity corresponded to new information emerging concerning the 2009 flu pandemic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

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

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Post by petercooper »

adambyrtek wrote: post #8
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.

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…

Ditto for me but not just over my own links. I don't bookmark everything (though I have 6000 bookmarks there) but if I read an interesting article about, say, bioinformatics and it was something to do with Japan, I could hit up Delicious for articles+bioinformatics+japan and 9 times out of 10, be reconnected to content that Google would struggle to find given the same terms.

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

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Post by kaerast »

bobds wrote: post #28
Macha wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

There are a few decentralized social networks around. I was considering the use of status.net as a base since it's got a load of the right features in there already (tagging, groups, federation, etc); though it may be best to just start from scratch using new and exciting technologies.

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

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Post by coderdude »

encoderer wrote: post #31
coderdude wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Nah, the tags themselves is what he was getting at. Not saying I agree or disagree with him, but that's the value.

I actually forgot that Delicious was all about tags. It's been a long time since I visited the site.

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

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Post by stcredzero »

charliepark wrote: post #30
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…

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.

I wonder if this could be implemented as an API of websites? (Or perhaps on behalf of websites?) Instead of one single site, you'd have a p2p network of sites using protocols similar to those used for digital cash schemes. Think: a distributed open marketplace of middlemen. A sort of Diaspora middle tier.

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

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Post by ffffruit »

Couldn't we do a service where delicious users can export all their bookmarks (bar private ones if they want) and then send them onto a aggregator so a new service can pick up where delicious left. I am assuming here that technically delicious is not (very) challenging, its the data that is precious.
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