Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

Post by d0mine » Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 1:28 PM UTC

silentbicycle wrote: post #56

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

For non-command-line-skittish people (on Unix), you can say something like wget --quiet --http-user=`head -n 1 ~/.deliciousrc` --http-passwd=`tail -n 1 ~/.deliciousrc` -O ~/docs/delicious.xml http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all where ~/.deliciousrc is a text file with two lines: yourusername yourpassword (or something similar with curl) I run this out of cron nightly and back up my bookmarks in a git repo, along with my…

  curl -n -o ~/docs/delicious.xml https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all

  machine api.del.icio.us login yourusername password yourpassword

Post by whyleyc » Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 1:30 PM UTC

Vic-nyc wrote: post #23

greenlblue wrote: post #16

There are many alternate services of the same type. Just export your bookmarks into the new service. I don't see what the fuss is about.

Care to provide a few examples?

Post by steveklabnik » Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 2:42 PM UTC

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…

Post by eli » Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 2:52 PM UTC

greenlblue wrote: post #16

There are many alternate services of the same type. Just export your bookmarks into the new service. I don't see what the fuss is about.

Post by metageek » Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 2:57 PM UTC

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.