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

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Post by kaerast »

jchrisa wrote: post #37
bobds wrote: post #14

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

Done and done: http://blog.fupps.com/2010/05/25/truly-scrumptious-bookmarks...

That looks pretty good, but it appears to have no concept of users. In which case when you start replicating with somebody you end up with the same editable list of bookmarks. That may be what you want, but I'd quite like to be able to separate mine and theirs.

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

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Post by kaerast »

revicon wrote: post #24

For ppl who haven't exported their bookmarks yet, I wrote a quick webapp to help (for the command line skittish) http://mattcrampton.com/delicious

That doesn't work for newer accounts linked to a Yahoo account. In fact it's a real pain getting your data out in xml format from such an account.

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

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Post by nl »

joshu wrote: post #59
nl wrote: post #42

Pfft. The code is pretty worthless without Yahoo's infrastructure. More interestingly, I wonder how much Yahoo would sell it for?

yahoo doesn't actually have much infrastructure that delicious relies on. the main bit is the text indexer.

That makes the question of how much they'd sell it for even more interesting.

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

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Post by mvermaat »

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've been using Delicious for storage and management of news links on http://checkuitcheckin.nl/ (a view on public opinion on the Dutch public transport card OV-chipkaart).

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

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Post by ffffruit »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #55
ffffruit wrote: post #39

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.

Delicious already provides an export mechanism. It is up to other services to read that format. http://www.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export

I know. What I meant was a service where you put your delicious username and it automatically fetches all your data and merges them into one big dataset. Something to keep the data aggregated and then re-launch.
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