Del.icio.us alternative that actually has a revenue model

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Post by discodoc » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 1:54 AM UTC

Del.icio.us alternative that actually has a revenue model
hoarde.rs

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Post by hartror » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 2:43 AM UTC

From the FAQ:

We want to be financially responsible and come up with some way to keep this site running. As you've likely noticed, relevent contextual ads from Google make an appearance on each of our pages.

Also, taking a page from the excellent StackOverflow's book, we also rewrite links to certain sites and append our affiliate ID. It's our hope that the combination of these two solutions will be the least intrusive way to cover the costs of providing this site as a resource for our users.

http://www.hoarde.rs/about/

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Post by BobbyH » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 2:44 AM UTC

Their revenue model is: (A) one AdSense ad per page, and (B) rewriting URLs to append their own affiliate link (if an affiliate code does not currently exist).

For the record, Delicious alternative Pinboard also has a revenue model, whereby they charge each new user a certain amount, and then also have a premium offering whereby bookmarked links are archived.

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Post by JSig » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 3:04 AM UTC

From the FAQ:

"hoarde.rs is based on Yahoo! Inc's del.icio.us a social bookmarking site that has recently been decommisioned."

This is not true. See -> http://www.delicious.com/

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Post by rryan » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 3:22 AM UTC

http://pinboard.in

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Post by nmunson » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 3:29 AM UTC

JSig wrote: post #4

From the FAQ: "hoarde.rs is based on Yahoo! Inc's del.icio.us a social bookmarking site that has recently been decommisioned." This is not true. See -> http://www.delicious.com/

Not decommissioned, just planning to change owners: http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delici...

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Post by idlewords » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 3:35 AM UTC

rryan wrote: post #5

http://pinboard.in

Heh, yeah, I saw the title and thought this was a post about us.

I would strongly encourage all our competitors to adopt this elegant business model.

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Post by raz0r » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 9:24 AM UTC

Actually it looks very bad, feels clunky and the revenue model is idiotic with a passion.

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Post by RossDM » Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 7:53 PM UTC

All of the links feel ridiculously huge. I thought we got past this whole Web 2.0 thing?