I feel sorry for all the people let go just before xmas.
Weren't most of them moved to other jobs at Yahoo?
Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
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Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#82There should a legislation. If company stops support or goes bust it should open source the software.
Open sourcing proprietary software isn't necessarily easy. I was at Netscape when we sanitized the codebase to release as Mozilla, and there was plenty of third-party code that had to be left out. (That's part of why Mozilla was so slow to get off the ground. That, and the fact that compiling Navigator was always a pain in the donkey, even when you had the whole thing.)
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#83We 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 haven't done much with it lately, but I still maintain a "daily" tag, containing things I want to read every day. I then subscribe to the RSS feed in Firefox, and which gives me a bookmark I can middle-click on to get my daily reading.
The main problem was that the RSS feed was limited to 15 entries.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#84joshu on Twitter: http://twitter.com/joshu/status/15492062459731968 "@cdixon open sourcing it would be an enormous pain in the ass. selling it not as bad but yahoo infrastructure and auth problematic." Besides that, open sourcing delicious wouldn't solve the problem - someone still has to host it, and maintain it, and import several million people's bookmark collections in to it. That takes significant time and money…
Jaiku seems to be running strong on App Engine so it is possible to open source a large application and have it keep jugging on. I don't see Yahoo being interested in porting to GAE though.
Jaiku also underwent a rewrite before being open sourced, and I'm sure their install was given something akin to reserved instances of App Engine. So, yeah, while that's doable, it helps if the company behind it is Google.
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#85Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#86This is not a copy of delicious, but I wrote this yesterday in a hurry. http://selficious.appspot.com - It imported my bookmarks and I use it to manage them and my future ones (add, edit, delete). The code will of course be opensource. I just need to clean it a lil' bit :)
All right, the code is online. I'm not really proud of it, but it seems to work just fine. There are tons of features to add/fix and I hope that you'll give a hand: https://github.com/initpy/selficious
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
You want a tool to do this job so you can avoid installing google toolbar? How much do you reckon thats worth to you?
I'd say a lot, because to do the import you have to swamp your firefox bookmarks structure with your delicious one, and then import those using the toolbar. Of course this looses all of the tags, and comments, which are pretty much the whole point of delicious. A system that actually gets all the data from delicious into google bookmarks seems to be worth while.
I hacked together something a long time ago to do this with a bookmarklet. It'll import delicious bookmarks into Google while preserving tags.
http://blog.lifeslip.com/articles/2006/10/25/bookmarklet-del...
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#88joshu on Twitter: http://twitter.com/joshu/status/15492062459731968 "@cdixon open sourcing it would be an enormous pain in the ass. selling it not as bad but yahoo infrastructure and auth problematic." Besides that, open sourcing delicious wouldn't solve the problem - someone still has to host it, and maintain it, and import several million people's bookmark collections in to it. That takes significant time and money…
I've taken a quarter of a million of the most popular bookmarks from thousands of tags, and created a similarity search engine with it. Seems to be working pretty well. Thank you, delicious.
is it available for public?
Re: Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say a lot, because to do the import you have to swamp your firefox bookmarks structure with your delicious one, and then import those using the toolbar. Of course this looses all of the tags, and comments, which are pretty much the whole point of delicious. A system that actually gets all the data from delicious into google bookmarks seems to be worth while.
I hacked together something a long time ago to do this with a bookmarklet. It'll import delicious bookmarks into Google while preserving tags. http://blog.lifeslip.com/articles/2006/10/25/bookmarklet-del...
That worked perfectly! I am hardly able to express how grateful I am :-)
It even worked more smoothly than the Google Toolbar's own importer, which complains about dupes (wrongly), and prefixes all the labels with "Tag:" for no good reason.
Will blog this ASAP.