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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.
In other words, the whole social aspect.
More interestingly, I wonder how much Yahoo would sell it for?
It's the tens of thousands of man hours that have been spent creating one of the best indexes with careful tags for millions of pages. The data's what makes Delicious matter.
And, if you open-source the data, I see people crying foul over privacy.
I doubt we'll see it open sourced, or saved in any form by Yahoo. It's too much cost/effort for them, when that's the reason they're scrapping it in the first place. What i'd like to see is people quickly rolling out tools that help us get our Delicious bookmarks into other sites easier. Eg into Google Bookmarks. That currently requires you to install the Google Toolbar and import them through that (ugh).
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…
The actual code doesn't matter. It's the tens of thousands of man hours that have been spent creating one of the best indexes with careful tags for millions of pages. The data's what makes Delicious matter. And, if you open-source the data, I see people crying foul over privacy.